Dressing homes for success

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Meridith Baer is a home stager, with a proven track record of taking totally empty houses on the market and dressing them up, to where they sell for far above the asking price. Alina Cho met with the home stylist whose gift is a realtor's greatest selling point.
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@lovingatlanta 3 года назад

👍Good for her. I love it when people are doing exactly what they’re meant to be doing. 💝

@staceyharvey6329 5 лет назад

What an interesting story! Congratulations, Meredith. You are very talented!

@sharonwalker8 4 года назад

What a blessing to have a career that you love.

@mrs.m.8649 5 лет назад

I LOVE the story of how Meridith Baer began her company! 👏 👏 🌞

@TaylorMade511 5 лет назад

I wish I could just "fall" into a career like that.

@a697ag 3 года назад

My aunt used to do this as a top realtor in the 1980s/1990s. Often times, she used things from her own home but also she had great relationships with local small furniture stores, antique shops, etc. and they would lend her items for free in exchange for leaving advertising materials on site for perspective home buyers. Other realtors thought she was nuts because it's a lot of work to prep but my aunt's listings always sold quickly and at higher price points. Some of the buyers would then hire her to decorate their new homes. She never had any formal training either. She's just one of the lucky people with a great eye and tons of imagination

@buttermoment2748 5 лет назад

Meridith Baer .... what a stunning woman and such a warm spirit. Look how she reinvented herself! What an amazing career. Good girl! Well done Meridith. God richly bless you.

@tnijoo5109 3 года назад

My favorite part was when the reporter revealed she couldn’t figure out how to make a bed and throw some pillows on it. I feel less dysfunctional now. Thanks.

@twistoffate4791 3 года назад

Tnijo O, You made me laugh... Thank you, I truly needed it!

@ceciliem1811 5 лет назад

Fantastic Meredith! You are amazing! Your decorating skills are impeccable!! Love your style! 👍⭐👍

@jomontanee 5 лет назад

7:12 "I sell everything except for my cat." WAY TO GO, GIRL! Our cat stays with us forever.

@MissValdostaFeedAndGrain 3 года назад

I wasn’t expecting “sex appeal” to turn into “how much sex was had in the house” LOL😂😂😂😂🙈🙈😂😂. The reporter’s surprised full on belly laugh was priceless!! 👍👍

@manichairdo6346 5 лет назад

What an incredible story. I almost cried when Meredith mentioned there I was...homeless...

@myrahj1482 5 лет назад

I loved this, what I would do with all those great pieces in her wearhouse. Often feel the same way about instinctively knowing how to set up spaces.

@elsaweber4323 5 лет назад

Beautiful story!

@JoyHarrison 5 лет назад

Awesome! I wish I could get her to stage my house that I'm not selling.

@andrereynolds5018 3 года назад

Love this!!!!

@huntingtonparkway 5 лет назад

It's great looking at these homes in person. Especially when you can just look at staged homes on your own.

@newattnow 5 лет назад

Love this!

@detroitmetro101 5 лет назад

wonderful.

@detroitmetro101 5 лет назад

btw, formula=symmetry+color contrast

@ltg102 5 лет назад

Fabulous!

@Autism_Forever 5 лет назад

I have had same thing happen to me. I have staged home and landscaped the yard so beautifully that my slimy landlord tried to sell it from under me. His plan did not work though :))))

@kimcham9949 5 лет назад

Anna Gray: Why not? What happened?

@Autism_Forever 5 лет назад

@@kimcham9949 Because I explained to the buyer what stays (virtually nothing, the yard was a wasteland when I moved in) and what goes, and the buyer did not want the house after that. I also informed the landlord that I will charge him for all of the improvements should he ever try something like this.

@kimcham9949 5 лет назад

@@Autism_Forever: LOL! LOVE IT! 😂😂

@morenitanegrita8793 5 лет назад

Anna Gray You can’t charge him for the improvements unless he agreed to let you do them in the first place. I’m not sure why you would spend money like that on a home you don’t own. I’m sure it looks gorgeous, but folks like you are why I am getting out of the landlord game. People misunderstand what “rental” means. I let you stay in my house for a fee...it’s not really YOURS to do as you see fit, unless I agree.

@Autism_Forever 5 лет назад

@@morenitanegrita8793 He did agree to them :) You got a point, but I simply don't like to live in crappy houses, thus, I improve. If I did nothing with lemons that life dealt me, I would be a proud owner of a lemon compost pile :)))

@happydeedee2441 5 лет назад

Great video...love it!❤❤❤❤❤

@candyp2861 5 лет назад

Loved this segment. I just started my real estate career and I’m selling my first house (my parents old rental not worth more than $140K but it’s a start). I happened upon this video asking Google if staged houses sell faster. I can’t afford Meredith but maybe $1500 to a local stager might help.

@jerijomeyer7781 5 лет назад

Congratulations on your new career! That's about the right fee for that price house. I am a broker/Owner of a Real Estate Agency and staging firm

@stardavis6618 5 лет назад

Congrats on your new career! If you were in Dallas I would be happy to help stage :)

@CC-si3cr 5 лет назад

Investing $1,500 for a fake Meredith is steep. I would recommend you save your money and get in contact with your local university that has a school of design and get a college student to do it for free! Schedule some interviews with students, take a look at their portfolios, and hire based off of what you like best. The student gets to pad their portfolio for future use and you get a free staging. Partner with a local furniture store where you use their furniture and they can advertise in the home for free. Everyone wins!

@helenaville5939 5 лет назад

Steer clear of students who are still at the "experimenting" stage. You want to be certain you'll get a professional job for your money.

@ellajones6812 5 лет назад

Go to the library and look through some home decor magazines, come up with a plan, rent furniture by the week or month, buy accessory's "keep receipts and don't go over the 30 day limit on returns" use things from your home, family and friends and stage the home yourself. If you get help don't forget to take out for drinks after the sale, best of luck.

@exoressdelivers70 5 лет назад

What a great success story!

@sadiemay8339 5 лет назад

Wow!

@glendasaavedra6864 5 лет назад

Omg love it ! I love her...

@Charrisnemtblueprint 5 лет назад

It's absolutely amazing how tragedy turns to triumph🙌🏽

@suzanneschulz8479 5 лет назад

It works I've done it! Try

@jackiedecoma4637 5 лет назад

Amazing story

@mirianansotegi649 3 года назад

Loved the comment about her cat🐾🐾💫😽

@debbralehrman5957 10 месяцев назад

Lovely

@stoicforall 5 лет назад

Lovely, beautiful ❤️

@jenniferwilson9579 5 лет назад

I sold an empty house in 2 days with multiple great offers. It really matters where your house is located. Perhaps in less desirable neighborhoods or a saturated market you may need this service. It would not have made any difference in my case and I would have lost money on staging fees. Definitely not realistic for many home owners.

@SmidBeach 5 лет назад

A lot of clients who hire home stagers are in a time crunch. And some houses emanate a "dated" feel. Whether it's worth the investment depends on the house and how much time you have to do your own research and make your own changes.

@nntflow7058 5 лет назад

Expensive houses like the one in the video cost millions. They need this kind of stages.

@helenaville5939 5 лет назад

+Jennifer Wilson. I disagree with you. Many of the houses featured in this video were high-end. And you can't be certain you wouldn't have received a higher offer for your house if you had invested in staging it. To say it wouldn't have made a difference is stubborn thinking. Fact is you don't know.

@kd2137 5 лет назад

Wow! What a very interesting story. It could be developed into a movie. It goes to show how you can make a much bigger impact behind the scene and behind the screen, rather than in front of it. 👍🥂😊

@chhive Год назад

Lightning makes a huge difference lol

@japonesa5186 3 года назад

Gifted.

@sandras.435 5 лет назад

I am a realtor in North Carolina and ran into one home that was staged. Nicely done but it didn't work as for a quick sell. It took just as long to sell as the an unstage home. Maybe it works for larger cities but it didn't work down south in my hometown.

@MikeA15206 5 лет назад

Making a judgment after only seeing one house that was stage is not a fair way to determine if staging is of value. How long have you been in the business?

@janelane1912 День назад

I'm sure in her early days it was a lot of physical labor. I never got into interior design because when starting out on lower budgets you got to make things, paint things , fix things ect. Moving furniture in and out of hot trucks, heavy lifting into narrow doorways, up stairs, is so exhausting. Then to try to come up with a design that's cohesive and manage your crew as it grows, this is no easy feat.

@debbieomi 5 лет назад

Meridith Baer reminds me of Mr. Kate; no formal training yet has that eye for design.

@missroxanne8591 5 лет назад

Excellent! What God has for you noone can take away from you!

@Marie-oy1bd 5 лет назад

Hmmmm...IF I had the money, I would want to hire her to "stage" the house for me to live in!

@debbiesims138 3 года назад

I have a friend who has the gift of decorating. If I could afford it I'd get rid of everything and have her redo it.

@malaikasdurbin8960 5 лет назад

Beautiful eye!!

@maddscientist3170 5 лет назад

GOOD LUCK!!

@CC-si3cr 5 лет назад

I really enjoyed this segment! CBS Sunday Morning should do segments like this, all about women, during the entire month of March in honor of Women's History Month.

@mrs.johnson7955 4 года назад

This is my dream job

@Sanpedranoazul 3 года назад

This is amazing!

@jaclynjaye9416 5 лет назад

Her and 100,000+ of Instagram influencers have that no experience gift of decorating.

@edmsing 5 лет назад

CBS Sunday Morning did a segment on ‘house staging’, in case you don’t know what that is, its were an empty house is dressed for sale by making it appear, lived in. Very much like what television viewers experience when watching a newscast, the producers take ordinary plain looking Janes and Joes, make them appear exciting, by adding facial make-up, hair dye, give them news copy, stage them before televison cameras, on a news room set, then tell them to read the copy, and if necessary, to act like a journalist…and if convincing, with increased viewer numbers, pay them a million bucks…

@eunicedetoiles9901 3 года назад

wow...so interesting! great story. thank you.

@lestudio76 5 лет назад

Melissa McCarthys older sister

@sooz9433 3 года назад

I can't even make a matching sofa and loveseat look good together... I wish I had one iota of this kind of talent. My kitchen has things like a single muscular G.I. Joe arm and a G.I. Joe upper body, Thing 2,(still searching for Thing 1) a huge grey rock that looks just like a baking potato, half a dozen Christmas cards on my fridge from as many years, a pair of handcuffs with a C.S.I. charm from our local casino...🤦‍♀️

@thobbs4526 5 лет назад

Wow, another “profession”, like wedding planner qnd life coach, that people somehow used to manage to live without...😳

@CC-si3cr 5 лет назад

besides not proofreading before posting I guess you make your own pizza and dry clean your own clothes too.

@thobbs4526 5 лет назад

Candis Carnegie , do you have nothing else to do? Here, look up “typographical error”. P.S. You are muted.

@libragirl4471 5 лет назад

@@thobbs4526 tell em! I agree with you, lazy unimaginative people will fall for this unnecessary service. Candis Carnigie- you have a nasty soul and just wow that you can't imagine making your own food or caring for your own clothing.

@ritatocta7583 5 лет назад

But in this case no ones looses, she has a gift the houses get better to live, she creates jobs etc

@Orfeus3000 5 лет назад

Lesson of the day when buying a home to save tens of thousands of dollars. Request to view the home before it has been staged.

@nntflow7058 5 лет назад

Actually, you might as well Buy the furnitures like I did. But my home is only around 300k though.

@CC-si3cr 5 лет назад

How are you going to view a home before it's staged??? Unless you know the homeowner that's impossible bc these homes hit the market STAGED.

@helenaville5939 5 лет назад

Silly suggestion.

@kitcoffey7194 3 года назад

Staging is a form of manipulation, so best to see it unstaged and empty.

@XavierKatzone 5 лет назад

Add bobbing-head B-role.

@MK-hh1vo 3 года назад

So what the difference between Meredith and an interior decorator? Is it the cost? Will she work with my existing furniture if possible? I want Meredith to "stage" my apartment, but I have no intention of moving! 😄 Good feature!

@seeingyouontube 5 лет назад

Is it simpler to hire a stager than an interior designer just to update my own home?

@SmidBeach 5 лет назад

I'm sure there are stagers with backgrounds in design, but making a home inviting to guests or comfortable to live in is different from attracting buyers. The amount of room and storage space needs to be clearly visible, and personal photos need to be removed because the object is to help the prospective buyers imagine their own families living there. A stager brings in their own inventory and often a seller who still lives there puts some things in storage. Stagers are temporarily furnishing the space, and what I know from interviewing a home stager is that lots of clients have limited time. Interior designers are there to please you and create a space that reflects your personality, whereas a home stager I met warns her clients who are staging before they move out, "You're not going to like our changes."

@carmelcapricorn7701 3 года назад

👗 4 success.🏙️🥂🍾

@rr7firefly Год назад

Her warehouse and its contents: excessive.

@angaeltartarrose6484 3 года назад

Smart lady!

@Happybidr 5 лет назад

What makes this woman so worthy of a TV news spot? Obviously, it’s that someone knew someone who knew someone, etc. But I don’t see any of those spaces as that much better than a lot of people can do for themselves. There are RU-vidrs who can do as well. I didn’t fall in love with any of those homes. That is what you get when you have a correspondent who knows nothing about design but feels incompetent and has a home that needs a LOT of attention. I agree that you don’t really need formal courses.

@sacmakiz 5 лет назад

Ok great but I googled her name and find out she is 71 YEARS OLD. Whaaattttt?!!!!

@SmidBeach 5 лет назад

If she is, I'm impressed!

@CC-si3cr 5 лет назад

not really sure what her age has to do with creating beauty in a home.

@MK-hh1vo 5 лет назад

Candis Carnegie I think the point is that she looks like she's 20 years younger than 70s. Nothing to do with her abilities, just an amazing fact.

@awarenessvillage 3 года назад

A lot of people are still working at 71 years old. The older you get, you find 71 isn't as old as you think it is.

@ChiselMouse 5 лет назад

As usual, no shortage of people who need to be told what to think.

@darlahkelley9800 3 года назад

Every thing is for sell except her Cat

@unoriented_x4957 3 года назад

Ugh. This was just an ad for rich people to buy a unnecessary service. 0/10 Do some real journalism next time.

@kimandrew794 5 лет назад

right maid?

@jaclynjaye9416 5 лет назад

kim andrew I couldn’t tell if she was saying “Maid” or “Mate”?

@rosyclaire 5 лет назад

I heard "maid or pet", how vacuous!

@TheDarkDresser 3 года назад

3:20 What an ugly orange thing; nice bed, though.

@susankelley8969 5 лет назад

Last. Home. I. Sold. I was. Told. By. Young. Gay. Sweet man. I. Will. Buy. Your. Home and. I. Want. To. Pay. For. Everything. In it too!;!! Oh. So. Happy to. Pack my. Clothes. And. That's. It!!!!,, He. Wanted dishes. Pots pans. Too!!! Lol. Thrilled. I. Didn't. Have. SAle. To. Sell my. Stuff

@charlotteziggy8353 5 лет назад

Weird , I liked it better bare .

@lizasilomar8545 5 лет назад

Can we cool it with the fake eyelashes, ladies? It’s so “Instagram” and distracting.

@terrybrady8588 5 лет назад

NO thanks I prefer my comfort over "style"

@SmidBeach 5 лет назад

I'm sure that a lot of homes are staged to look cozy and comfortable...but the name of the game is to attract the largest number of prospective buyers. With contemporary homes like what they showed in the segment, this decor is the best strategy.

@Mloofylicious 5 лет назад

And career-less, probably. Hence the "former actress" ;)

@gustavocabanas61 5 лет назад

PEOPLE IS SO STUPID. THEY HAVE NO IMAGINATION...SO THEY HAVE TO PAY SOMEONE TO DO THIS JOB!

@jpdurr 3 года назад

How incredibly lame to resort to such lazy tactics as having dark or dimly lit before, and brightly lit after. It actually detracts from the actual transformation by having to "help" it this way.

@libragirl4471 5 лет назад

all this proves is that rich greedy people will fall for anything, how about creating your own character in a home. cookie cutter sheep who need to be stripped of their excess and live a real life

@kitcoffey7194 3 года назад

More koney than they know what to do with. Pay me, I'll do it for 10k, not 14

@bunny_smith 5 лет назад

What an absurd, rarefied story.

@jacquelineconquest6218 5 лет назад

looked great, UNTIL, i saw the dead animal, cow body:( as rug. Negative energy of a tortured being sent to slaughter is not attractive or good energy. BAD KARMA. LIKE A HAUNTED HOUSE.

@SmidBeach 5 лет назад

I'm guessing it's fake, especially because she keeps such a massive inventory. While they aren't dirt cheap, she probably wouldn't invest more than she has to in furnishings that get moved around a lot.

@CC-si3cr 5 лет назад

I am still stuck on the fact you think ghosts are real. smh

@jacquelineconquest6218 5 лет назад

Fake or not fake. It's still evokes a negative energy. Can we look at compassion and empathy and good energy it's all about having a good loving vibration.

@jacquelineconquest6218 5 лет назад

@@CC-si3cr hahaha. You're stuck alright! Sounds like you're thinking can't expand beyond the front of your nose. Maybe start exploring other potential realities. And think about other living . And like all living beings they too, deserve to be respected for their life and not used as entertainment. It's important to expand and raise your consciousness and find out it's not all about you! Opening your heart and being in the state of gratitude and appreciation and love for all life and nature is the gift. having some compassion and empathy for other living beings and the expression of that is giving life not death. Reduced to a skin that you just walk on.