1.  Passed the RESA-PRO Ethics Exam.

2.  Have agreed to follow the RESA Code of Ethics.

3.  Have had a minimum of 1 year in business as a professional home stager (they have proved this by supplying either a  business license, DBA, LLC, CORP or Legal Partnership).

4.  Have Home Staging Business Insurance.

5.  Have a Business Checking Account.

Hiring a home stager with a RESA-PRO designation is important for homeowners and real estate agents because you are hiring a home stager that is a well qualified professional, one that is held to higher standards, higher ethics standards, one that has been in business at least one year and insured with a home staging business insurance policy committed to continuing education so they can use the latest home staging techniques.  RESA-PRO Designees are required to take continuing education courses every two years.

Contact DC Redesign and Home Staging for vacant home staging, redesign and conceptual staging! 714-815-3506

I have never been asked about my name or lack of certification initials. However many have asked Debra Gould of the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program (which I have completed) why she has chosen NOT to provide credentials after the completion of her training. “Schools teach home staging training through their online programs and in class training and provide credentials, which is basically an acronym for their specific completed course.”

“Not one single designation can claim to be the one and only best in the home staging industry and not a single home stager is like any other. Many home stagers have their own policies, procedures and, obviously, their own design skills. However, this industry is working to create common wordage and implementations we, as Home Stagers, can practice. The more Homeowners and Realtors know about our procedures and common practices, the easier it will be to understand and use home staging and redesigning for their properties.”

Who do you call; HSR, ASP, CSP, IRIS, Staging Diva? Some very talented home stagers do not have any letters behind their name. So how do you choose a Home Stager?   To start, ask for a referral from another homeowner or Realtor, view the home stager’s website for professionalism, request to see a home stager’s portfolio or design photos and ask about pricing and the time frame needed to complete your job. As you talk and meet with a Home Stager you will know if their personality and the delivery of their estimate presentation is someone you want to work with. It’s not always about price.

Working with a professional home stager will leave you with a beautiful designed home that stands out from all other homes on the market.  Once you find your preferred stager, add her to your team. The talent and advice she provides will be unmeasureable. You will have an excellent team member who you can trust and increase your home sales.

There are a couple of associations for all home stagers to be a part of which are not based on any designation or training requirements.  RESA the Real Estate Staging Association and ASHSR the American Society of Home Stagers and Redesigners.  Both associations invite all professional real estate stagers, Realtors, and Affiliates to join offering support through education and business tools focusing on the needs of all stagers. We can all unite into one Association of Home Stagers!

Diane Concialdi is owner and lead design for DC Redesign and Home Staging, located in Orange County, CA and services all of Orange County and surrounding areas. If you have questions about home staging, give me a call, I’d be glad to help! diane@dcredesign.com  or 714-815-3506

Meet with other Home Stagers in the Orange County area; join RESA – Real Estate Staging Association. We support all professional real estate stagers regardless of training, certifications, or designations.  Members have access to up-to-date information relative to the staging industry, including marketing support services. We are now considered a self regulated industry, meaning that every professional stager now has a voice to determine what happens in the industry!

When you affiliate yourself with a trade association you are able to contribute to your industry by helping create standards and ethical policies.  We welcome you to join our Orange County meeting!  Call Diane Concialdi, DC Redesign, 714-815-3506.  Get in on the next meeting (soon to be scheduled)!

1. help you develop your business

2. provide discounts on staging products through their many affiliates

3. tickets discounted for home staging events

4. articles regarding home staging

5. staging examples of before and after rooms

6. business insurance tips

7. the blogging community

8. furniture rental information

9. marketing your home staging business

10. forms, contracts and check lists

11. website design

12. staging business coaching

All of these benefits help you make intelligent decisions. Our Chapters provide our exclusive Stage It Forward Round Table (SIF) meetings to network, ask questions, and share our stories with each other allowing us to grow in the business of Home Staging. Our goal is to educate homeowners, builders and Realtors on the benefits of Home Staging in any real estate market.

Please visit the RESA website for more information realestatestagingassociation.com or to find the Chapter nearest you.

Diane Concialdi serves as President of the RESA Orange County CA Chapter.  Please contact for further information, questions or to sign up.  714-815-3506

Discussing home staging and writing what home staging is doing in our area is a positive way to market ourselves. The Real Estate Staging Association creates many unified networks of home stagers where we  provide marketing and networking opportunities for everyone! Our Chapter meetings bring benefits to the industry professionals and legitimacy to our profession.

Please contact Diane Concialdi, DC Redesign, Orange County Chapter President, with any questions and to join! 714-815-3506.

Monthly meetings for business resource and speakers, networking with Realtors, lenders, Title companies and recognition in your community, as well as discounts and your subscription to Stager Talk Magazine. You will gain exposure of yourself, your business and viewed as a leader in the community of the home staging profession.

DC Redesign serves the Orange County CA area consulting with agents, homeowners, builders, and investors to get the best price using home staging for your listings. Call Diane Concialdi at 714-815-3506 or visit our website www.dcredesign.com.

RESA members are able to form local Chapters to provide support and a group to meet one-on-one and share ideas, discuss changes in the home staging industry and ways to educate homeowners and realtors, as well as the entire Real Estate Industry, the benefits of home staging.

DC Redesign and Diane Concialdi is the Chapter President of the Orange County Chapter for RESA. I would like to invite anyone who is interested in joining for the support of each other to share and learn more through others’ experiences about home staging. Please contact Diane!

Mission: We are a united network of professional stagers and our goal is: to be the source of education and business tools focused on the needs of stagers: to be an accessible network of support for all home stagers; to be looked upon by Real Estate organizations as the authority on staging; to form needed local chapters to provide support for stagers; to actively promote and educate Realtors, Homeowners and the general public the value of staging; and to ensure staging becomes main stream within the Real Estate Industry.

RESA members are professionals that are dedicated to providing excellent service. Our membership is full of diverse backgrounds, training and affiliations. We feel our diversity makes us stronger as a group providing solid service to our clients. We will provide honest feedback on what needs to be done to properly prepare a home for sale, taking into account the sometimes sensitive nature of our business.

Please visit the RESA website and browse the pages and articles of home staging.