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Meredith Baer

22 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 1, 2025 by Meredith Baer · across every show →

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Dec 1, 2025
Disclosure
Baer bootstrapped her massive staging business by borrowing against her house
“I never did. I have two warehouses in LA now, but I borrowed money from my house, you know, for the down payment on those.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 49:25 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Opinion
Baer: San Quentin prison grounds were the safest place to live
“You know, it was the safest place to live. Who was going to steal my bicycle? You know, it was pretty much go out and play and come home when it's dark, That kind of a childhood, and I felt very safe. There were guards all over the place.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 4:58 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Baer was cast in the final episode of Happy Days
“I was on the very last episode of Happy Days.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 17:03 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Real estate brokers coined the term 'staging' to describe Baer's work
“Ok, what happened was, the brokers started to call it staging.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 28:40 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Disclosure
Baer: Put career on hold for years while dating Patrick Stewart
“The other thing for me, it was the only time in my entire life I gave up myself for those few years. To be with him, because he was making movies all over the world, I Traveled with him, and so I really put my career on the back burner, and then we started liv…”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 21:28 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baer was diagnosed with colon cancer the day of a tax audit
“It actually, the very same day I got this news, I found out I had colon cancer.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 43:32 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Landlord sold Baer's rental home after seeing her decorative makeover
“I found myself fixing up this little house I was renting, and rearranging the furniture, and then I went out and bought about a 150 huge pots, and grew trees, and plants, and flowers, and I was, I just wanted to be in the garden, and make things pretty, and th…”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 23:47 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Disclosure
Baer built a staging empire without ever taking interior design courses
“I never took a course, anything like that, and so it's just something that I enjoyed. I never took it very seriously.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 26:43 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Government forced Winston to pull Baer's cigarette ads for looking 16
“They, in fact, with my Winston ads, the government made them tape my ads down, because I always looked young for my age. They thought I looked 16. And that it was just wrong for my image to encourage children to smoke.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 16:17 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A rug dealer gave Baer roughly $1 million in inventory on consignment
“And this one gentleman gave me, I mean, probably at one point a million dollars of rugs to use on consignment.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 33:07 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Disclosure
Baer requires all home staging jobs to be paid up front
“I learned quickly to ask to get paid up front, and to this day, I'll only do the job if I'm paid up front, because then I had to run around and buy things, and I would shop the way I always shopped, you know, whether it was estate sales or thrift stores or wha…”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 32:24 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baer: Bob Guccione Asked Her to Pose Nude in Penthouse
“And then Guccione Wanted to put me in the magazine. He wanted me to be naked in the magazine, and I went.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 14:07 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baer's first staged home sold for $500,000 over asking price
“So the house sold in a matter of days for half a million over asking to the head of one of the studios.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 25:50 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baer: Bought and flipped Boulder houses for $8,000 while in college
“Whatever money I could save, I started flipping houses, and at that time in Boulder, you could buy a little house for 2000 dollars, and I'd flip it and sell it for eight, and all I would do really is to make it look cuter.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 7:57 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Disclosure
Baer rejected a Barbra Streisand screenwriting project to pursue home staging
“I had to say no. I had to decide that I was going to go in this other direction.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 29:06 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Meredith Baer Home now operates a fleet of 36 moving trucks
“I mean, I now have 36 trucks, but I never thought I'd be a girl who had 36 trucks.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 34:49 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Insight
The view upon opening the front door determines home buyer attachment
“What we want when they open the door, whatever they see is the most important thing. That moment is when you fall in love.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 40:56 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Meredith Baer sold her debut screenplay 'Prisoners' for $250,000 in 1980
“Well, I sold it for a quarter of a million dollars in 1980.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 18:19 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baer: Jerry Bruckheimer cast her in a Pepsi commercial
“He's an ad guy and came up to me and asked me to be in a Pepsi commercial, and I went, yeah, right.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 10:44 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Insight
Home sellers should invest in fresh paint instead of new kitchens
“We always encourage a paint to the homeowner. Invest in that, but don't build a new kitchen.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 39:41 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Insight
Anchor home staging fees to the seller's monthly mortgage holding costs
“First of all, I thought, what I'm doing is going to sell their house, and it's going to sell it fast. And so I figure, their monthly mortgage has to be X. And every month that it's on the market, they're paying that. So do they want to sell it in one month, or…”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 33:50 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baer: Early staging clients provided free rent and paid her to furnish homes
“Not only free rent, they'll pay me to bring my furniture there.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 28:07 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
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