Once you complete your home staging certification, you’ll start gathering up all the documents needed to start your home staging business.
One of the key ones you’ll need is a home staging contract. Luckily, we have one here for you.
My advice is to always get a signed home staging contract in your hands before beginning any work. A home staging contract serves two important purposes.
Once you have signed a client, it might be weeks before the job actually begins. During these weeks you might have discussions with 5 other potential clients, and sometimes you might get your wires crossed.
Once you have agreed on a deal with a client, you can prepare the contract immediately. This way, you’ll know exactly what the home staging job entails, what the address is, what the fee you quoted is, and the dates of the job.
More so, once the contract is signed, there is no “he said, she said” as you both have a single source of truth to refer to. No matter what conversations took place previously, what is stated in a signed contract is what the job entails – nothing more, nothing less.
During your home staging career some things will go not quite as expected. Jobs could be extended, jobs will be canceled, addresses may change, and much much more.
If you have a signed contract stating exactly what happens in each of these scenarios, you can avoid awkward situations in the future.
For example, if a client wants to cancel a job the day before, you can simply point to the signed contract and mention the cancellation fee.