Residential Transition Specialist™

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Guiding and assisting clients with their need to Downsize to a new location or Right size in their current space. From the planning stages, to project managing and overseeing, to being part of a multi-disciplinary team committed to ensuring a smooth transition.

Stagers are in a unique position to expand into this growing trend. For the first time in history, seniors will outnumber the younger generation! And they want and need your help. One such area is the area of Downsizing and Rightsizing. Further expanding our knowledge and skills in this can provide the perfect opportunity to increase our profits into the Downsizing and Rightsizing business. While most stagers already hold the expertise in preparing homes for sale, many have also managed client moves, and assisting homeowners with staging to live once the client has settled into their new home.

Join Christine Rae and Residential Transition expert and instructor Rachel Borrelli for this 6 hr program where they will assist stagers in understanding the unique challenges faced by working with this clientele [and their families] as well as choosing and working with a team of experts of many areas required to make the move as stress free as possible.

This programs earns you 3 CEU’s towards your Masters Designation

Participants will learn:

Examine the growing trend and increased need for Residential Transition Specialists™.
Discover how home stagers, designers, organizers, etc. are well positioned to complement their business model with Residential Transition Specialist™ service offerings.
Diversify your company by assessing the different levels of services that will meet the needs of your specific clients and market.
Acquire the information needed to create a business model that combines design, staging, organizing and project management into downsizing /rightsizing services.
Adapt existing skills and knowledge of design elements to meet the specific needs of clients who are downsizing/rightsizing.
Prepare to plan, organize, lead and coordinate every phase of the process for transitioning clients .
Gain the confidence to smoothly transition a client from their current state to their new lifestyle.

Type of Course: WEBINAR/ONLINE COURSE

Duration: 6 Hours

Fee: CSPs $349; Non-CSPs $399

DATES AND TIMES

This is a 3 session program.

SESSION 1: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2021
SESSION 2: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021
SESSION 3: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2021

All sessions run from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm EST

3 CE Credits

Earn three CE credits for the CSP International™ Masters of Real Estate Staging and the Residential Transition Specialist™ Designation

INSTRUCTOR:

Rachel Borrelli, CCSP® Bio:

Rachel Borrelli is the owner and lead Property Stylist of Diversa Designs Home Staging and Redesign. As a member of the Canadian Certified Staging Association and Residential Transition Specialist Instructor, she has a passion for Real Estate Staging as well as helping mature clients rightsize and transition into their new home. As a graduate from the University of Calgary Visual Design program, specializing in Interior Design, Rachel creates safe, functional, and beautiful spaces for people to call home. Rachel is the recipient of a RESA 2019 Top 10 Canadian Home staging award and the current Alberta Provincial President, Real Estate Staging Association (RESA)

Read Rachel’s article: Do You Fit In Your Home

Testimonials:

“Having recently completed the Residential Transition course, I think it can be a very valuable course to take whether you do Home Staging, Downsizing Services, or Relocation Services for people who are downsizing. Not just as an additional service to add to one’s business plan, but also serving as a different reference point when working in diverse situations with a side range of people.
Rachel provides excellent information, gained through personal experience, on how to approach people who are encountering those stressful situations; and the service, as well as assistance, one can provIde for them. Ironically, it also gave me some valuable tips on how to ‘downsize’ the years to accumulated clutter and obsolete possessions in my own home.”

~ Pamela Merrill-Schwartz

“I had the pleasure of attending the Residential Transition Specialist program in the Spring of 2020 with Rachel Borrelli. I had no idea what I was in for! The course is jam packed with information on not just how to add a transition specialty to your staging business but how to do it with compassion and understanding of what kinds of emotional adjustments the client would be going through as well as their physical needs. It is extremely thorough, well laid out, and easy to follow and understand. Later on the course was expanded to be provided over three days and supplemented with a virtual hands on practicum where participants learned to actually plan out several rooms to accommodate the changes a client might face while going through a transition, whether downsizing or right sizing. Rachel teaches the extensive and detailed course in a calm and empathetic manner which makes for a perfect pairing. I would highly recommend the Residential Transition Specialist course for any stager to compliment their business and prepare for what is already a highly sought after skill in this industry.”

~ Corinne Janzen, Certified Staging Professional®, Fraser Valley Essential Staging

Is Staging Certification Necessary?

The home staging industry is unregulated and there is no “governing and regulating association”. Don’t let this alarm or dissuade you from pursing your dream. The Home Inspection industry is non- regulated also, in fact many industries are rooted in non-regulation. What it means is simply anyone can say they are a stager and anyone can provide a training course, online or in person………….. without ever having staged a home! Shocking isn’t it? We believe as a new business starting out you need as much ammunition and information as possible to position you as an expert instead of a newbie. Certification for a stager is as vital as a license is to a real estate agent.

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HIGH PRAISE

I don’t know where to start. It was a fantastic class; it was such a pleasure to meet Christine and Lynelle…It was a lot of information in 3 days! I am happy and thrilled that I took this class – Thanks to everbody for their help!!

Mira B.
Mississauga, ON
“Having gone through my first CSP training class years ago, and then taking a refresher class recently, I still feel that you cannot get a better staging education than CSP.”

Robin LeVine
The first house I staged sold over asking last night!! Put on the market at $339K and sold 9 days later for 400K! The happiness I feel is so indescribable!! I just want to thank you so much for BEING CHRISTINE RAE! I don’t think I could ever have done this without your guidance and amazing program! CAN’T WAIT FOR MORE PROJECTS! The real estate agent wants to work with me too !! WOOHOO!

Yzabelle Sanico
CCSP