Denver Real Estate Investor Proven Wrong by Staging Diva Graduate

Debra Gould
Working with her husband doing "fix n flips" and managing rentals in Denver, Colorado seamlessly led Debbie Fiskum into a career as a professional home stager. After taking the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program, Debbie wasted no time in starting her own business, Perfect Home Staging Denver.

Debbie quickly saw a bright future for home staging in Denver through the success of her first projects. With every successful staging story she was involved in, she was educating her local market about the benefits of home staging and why it works.

One excellent example of these strong staging stories came after she was hired to do a "fix and flip" for a real estate investor husband and wife pair in December of 2009. The wife was a believer in home staging while the husband was resistant to the idea. He thought since the home had been beautifully renovated and upgraded there was no need to go further before going to market.

The wife, however, ended up making the ultimate decision in this case and the vacant home was staged before being put up for sale.

Debbie brought in rental furniture and accessories. Furniture was kept minimal with more of the budget being splurged on accessories, creating vignettes and "emotional pockets" throughout the home to draw in potential buyers.

To the delight of this pair of real estate investors, the home sold in two and a half weeks, at Christmas time!



That´s all it took to educate the husband about the power of home staging and needless to say, both investors will be staging all of their future investment properties with Perfect Home Staging Denver.

"Taking the Staging Diva Program helped me to speak more effectively to agents, investors and homeowners and to convince them of the value of home staging," writes Debbie. She adds, "I gained insight about marketing my business and that continues to be an ongoing process as I follow Debra on Twitter and keep up with her blog posts. By doing the things Debra recommends in her program, you can build a profitable business."

The creator of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program, Debra Gould has staged millions of dollars worth of real estate, including seven of her own homes. She is the president of home staging firm SixElements.com and has trained thousands of home stagers to start and grow their own businesses. Gould created the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers to help home sellers and real estate agents locate staging services in their area.

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Debra Gould

Debra Gould, aka The Staging DivaŽ, is President of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company. Inspired by many requests from aspiring home stagers wanting to start similar businesses, Gould created the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program.

Gould has trained 7,000+ Staging Diva students in over 21 countries to start their own businesses. All shared a natural talent for decorating and interest in real estate, but didn't know how to make a living in their own house staging business before learning her secrets.

Debra Gould's mission is to inspire and empower others to use their natural talents to earn a living. She followed her dreams and wants to teach others to be able to do the same.

Gould pursued an MBA in Marketing and began a corporate career before moving to advertising. In the 1980s, she launched one of the first integrated marketing firms, which she ran for 10 years. Wanting a more creative life, Debra gave it up to design home accessories. She created the Debra Gould Home Collection, landing a magazine cover story and book feature, followed by her first of several HGTV appearances.

Buying decorating and selling six of her own homes in four years lead to an interest in real estate staging which she turned into a new staging career with the launch of sixelements.com in 2002. Since that time she has staged homes for hundreds of clients in addition to providing home staging training.

Gould is the author of "Staging Diva Ultimate Design Guide: Home staging tips, tricks and floor plans", "Staging Diva Ultimate Color Guide: The easy way to pick colors for home staging projects", and "Staging Diva Ultimate Portfolio Guide: Winning clients with the perfect home staging portfolio".

In addition to HGTV, Debra Gould's media coverage includes: CityTV, GlobalTV, CBC, CBS Radio, CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, Woman's Day, Reader's Digest, MoneySense, Entrepreneur, House and Home, Home & Decor, Style at Home, Centre of the City, USAA Magazine, FabJob Guide to Become a Home Stager, Home Style, National Post Homes, This Old House, Home Business Magazine, Globe & Mail and others.

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