Meredith Baer Home

11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 1, 2025 by Meredith Baer · said 11 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 1, 2025
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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 bullish
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Meredith Baer Home doubled its revenue every year for its first decade
“Oh, it at least doubled every year for the first 10 years.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 44:52 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025 positive
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Why neutral white sofas became a ubiquitous home staging industry standard
“I always found that if I had white sofas, they were neutral, and I could bring in all kinds of different art and different looks, and it would all work. So that was one of the things that I started out doing, and I can see that all the people who have since be…”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 37:06 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
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Meredith Baer Home maintains 700 to 900 concurrent home staging installations
“Oh, no, more like, we usually have about seven to 900 homes installed at any given time.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 53:43 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
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Meredith Baer recently staged a single luxury home for $185,000
“We're just finishing a home right now, as we speak, that was a 185,000 dollar job.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 53:55 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
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Meredith Baer Home manufactures 60% to 70% of its upholstered furniture
“I would say, 60 to 70% of our upholstered furnishings we make.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 51:04 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
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Meredith Baer Home now employs approximately 320 people
“About 320.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 53:34 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
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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
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Major developers defaulted on staging fees just before the 2008 housing crash
“We had a lot of really big developers who weren't making their rental payments and were owing us more and more money, and a lot of them went bankrupt.”
Meredith Baer Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 47:27 Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Dec 1, 2025
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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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