Hi There! I’m Tori Toth

Want the secrets to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the housing market? My goal is to add more value to your home by giving you the tools needed to prepare and showcase your most valuable asset, your home, for sale. When you stage a home as a seller, you’re telling potential buyers, damn right, my home is amazing and it’s worth ever penny of the asking price!

Home staging is strategic marketing for your biggest return on investment by focusing on home renovation and creative design. Translation? A home stager creates a lifestyle that buyers want to aspire to through methods of rearranging, organizing and in many cases adding or editing furniture and home decor. Making your home more desirable will get money in your pocket quickly. Who wouldn’t want that?

Born in Princeton, NJ, I grew-up around my father’s construction business learning how to do small fixes around the home. As a child, I loved to design my room, rearranging furniture over and over again. When I turned 18 I left my job, education and home in New Jersey to seek out life’s opportunities. While I wanted to move out west I found myself living in New York City, partying it up! A few months into the club scene I found myself wanting more, so a friend found me a job as a Waitress (not a glamorous job), but it did lead me to one amazing person, the man who hired me is my current companion of 15 years, Sal Arena (more on that story in a minute). Waitressing led to a Processing Manager position at a mortgage company for two years, before becoming a Supervisor for a TV spot sales company in Manhattan. As my salary and job title increased, I found myself unenthusiastic about the daily grind I was working full-time during the day and going to college fulltime at night in an attempt to become a TV Reporter. On 9-11-2001, I was on the 59th street bridge heading to work when I saw the second plane hit the Twin Towers, the surreal scene didn’t scare me though, in fact I was drawn to the towers and when everyone was running away from downtown I (along with Sal) found myself walking from the Upper East Side down to the chaos. Witnessing that experience gave me the determination to move forward and I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and Photography in 2004, which I successfully used in the news business as an Emmy Nominated multi-media journalist for over six years. Now, you may be wondering what does television reporting have to do with home staging—well, I’m a creative, high-energy, multi-tasker that works well under pressure and tight deadlines, plus I have an eye for detail and design. By using compelling images I’ve been able to emotionally connect viewers to each story and I’ve used that technique to attract potential buyers to homes. In 2009, I became a Certified Home Staging Professional trained through Home Staging Resource. I was also trained by HGTV Star Matthew Finlason of “The Stagers” focusing on target staging and lifestyle merchandising to showcase spaces that aspire to buyer’s dreams

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That year I also opened a NYC based home staging company, Stylish Stagers, Inc., I committed myself to “Create An Image That Sells” so homeowners could easily move from staged to sold stress free.In just two short years, my unique style and exceptional images earned me a spot as the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) 2012 Professional Stager of the Year Finalist and I was awarded the RESA 2012 Regional Vice President of the Year for my efforts to support and educate the local chapters in the regio

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Fast forward to October 29, 2012, the longest night I’ve ever endured! Sal and I were in the kitchen of our house when water started seeping in through the baseboards. We scurried our two dogs and two cats upstairs as we tried to save what we could off the first floor of our home. Within 10 ten minutes, 10 years of our life together was destroyed in 4-feet of our water. Superstorm Sandy ruined our first floor, including my home office where I ran Stylish Stagers, Inc. Despite the tireless months it took to rebuild, I was able to learn the process of exactly what it takes to construct a home from the subfloor up, which has come in handy on staging projects. It’s always been my initiative to educate home sellers on ways to prepare and showcase their home for sale. That’s why I’m not only an active member of the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA), but I’ve created a series of “how to” home staging videos that have been watched nearly 100,000 times on Youtube and has helped me reach home sellers near and far. My goal is “to make home staging a real estate standard.” To date, I’ve been interviewed by CNN Money, Long Island Weekly and I’m a contributor for Mann Report Residential.The feedback from these videos has now inspired me to create the Stage 2 Sell Strategy, an online program for home sellers that provides step-by-step “secrets” home stagers use to prepare homes for sale effectively. This new venture has given me the chance to come full-circle, using my reporting background to help home sellers everywhere (regardless of budget) prepare their home properly to attract the most amount of buyers in the shortest period of time. As you read through the website, watch the videos, and get to know me better, you’ll realize how dedicated I am to helping you succeed in selling your home. And, when you sign up for the Stage 2 Sell Strategy, I’ll be able to help you directly as I respond to questions on our members-forum every week.

What’s What

When I wake up in the morning, I’m excited to start my day helping others create a lifestyle they aspire to. In many cases I even get homeowners to fall in love with their homes again. Out of the 4 seasons: Summer is by far my favorite! I have a ton of shoes, second to shoes, I like collecting wing back chairs. After Superstorm Sandy we’re buying old furniture and refinishing each piece for our house. (Watch Videos) My animals: two dogs (Coco & Sasha), two cats (Remi & Tigz), they apologize in advance if you see or hear them throughout my videos. Love painting both on walls and canvas. 26.2 Miles that will be my longest run at the 2013 NYC Marathon in November. I’m the oldest of four siblings (so yes, it’s my way or the highway.) Did I mention, I’m a vegetarian, well actually I call myself a Toritarian (get it?) “The pickiest of eaters.” When I’m not working, I’m traveling I love to see new places and experience new things. Things to accomplish on my bucket list within the next year include: Racing a Nascar and Visiting Italy. I’d love to hear more about you, so leave a comment on our fan page. Tell me a fun fact about yourself and how I might be able to help stage your home to sell. - See more at: http://toritoth.com/about/#sthash.RhsdbQb8.dpuf