Twin Cities Home Staging Company, 20-Year Minnesota Operator

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This is a 20-year residential home staging business serving the Twin Cities Metro and Western Wisconsin since 2006. It completes more than 200 staging projects annually across vacant staging, blended staging, consultations, and furniture resale. The business runs on a referral engine of more than 40 real estate office relationships, which is the real asset here: those relationships are the demand pipeline, and they have fueled $1M+ in annual revenue every year since 2023.

The operation is run by a contractor-led team of 12 contractors, and the sale includes roughly $400,000 in RFID-tracked furniture and staging inventory, warehouse shelving, the business phone number, Instagram account, and website. At $1.6M asking against $516,617 in cash flow, the deal prices at about 3.1x SDE, with SBA financing and a seller note available on a $160,000 down payment. The contractor model keeps payroll variable, which is attractive, but it also means the business is highly exposed to the pace of home sales in one regional market.

The honest read: home staging is a derivative of residential real estate transaction volume. When listings slow, staging demand slows with them. The $400k of furniture inventory makes the multiple look richer than a pure services comp, so a buyer should separate the operating cash flow from the asset value and underwrite accordingly.