The San Diego Staging Company

I have used The San Diego Staging Company multiple times for my listings. They have the best prices in town and fast easy quick service. I would recommend them to an agent or seller looking for a fair priced staging service. Every time I use San Diego Staging my listing sells very quickly so I have been very satisfied.

I read the other 1 star review and couldn’t believe how similar my horrible experience was. Do not fall for the low price. If you are a broker and preparing a home for the market, hiring this company WILL make you look bad. I almost lost a multi-​million dollar listing because Josie.
I called her with 1 week prior to our scheduled first day on the market. My clients were on a very tight timeline to list their beach house. Josie responded quickly the first time I contacted her, but very slow to respond after that. I actually thought she might have a 9 – 5 where she is not allowed to return calls and that is why I only get a text msg around 6 after several calls during normal business hours.
She met me at the property that Thursday, walked around, took some notes, and told me she would get furniture down, staged, old furniture out, and even have one of her guys paint where a built in was removed. Friday. Nothing. Saturday nothing. We HAD to be on the market by the following Wednesday and my photographers were scheduled (and they are hard to book and almost impossible to re-​book).
Finally, on Sunday, she tells me that the furniture is in LA and will be on the next truck down. I asked when it will arrive and she told me very nonchalantly that she’s not sure, depends on the route and driver; it was her first time using this person so no clue. All the while, my sellers are asking why so many days have gone by and nothing has happened since they hired me.
In my client’s words, «we know YOU are great, but this still reflects poorly on you because you hired her and the job is not getting done.»
I reach out to her a few times throughout the day and no response. I’m on pins and needles here! Monday night, she texts and tells me the furniture missed the delivery truck and will be on sometime Tuesday. Tuesday morning comes and she says that there was an issue out of her control and it will likely be Wednesday morning, but she can have it all staged very quickly and still in time for the photos.
At this point, I can’t risk another delay. I offer to pay for a truck and drivers to go to LA, get the furniture, and deliver it to the property. After 2 hours she texts «that can work» and emails me an address. I ask her for something in writing allowing the release of the furniture to the movers I hired and never hear back. Another day has gone by…
She finally emails and tells me that the furniture for my listing is part of a much larger order and it can’t be broken up, I’d have to bring it all down; part to my beach listing, and the rest to her warehouse. I ask her for the letter again and tell her I’ll get a larger truck (adding $ 1,500 to my expense). Everyone is ready and no response from her. Nothing.
After waiting for several hours I tell her she is fired and the deal is off. Just like Sean B wrote in his review, no response, no apology, nothing. I understand sometimes things can be out of ones control, it happens in my business all the time. However, I own it. I will let my client know that I am also upset by it, doing everything I can to solve, etc.
I am her client. She left me high and dry. No apology, no response, nothing. I can’t think of any other instance where I have offered, as one’s client, to pay so much extra to ensure the job I hired THEM to do gets done and been treated so poorly in return.
Everything above is documented in emails, texts, writing, etc. If you have taken the time to read this long review, you clearly care about your sellers the way I do mine. DO NOT get blinded by the low bid amount. You get what you pay for. While I was able to prevent this stress from getting to my clients, hire someone else, and still meet the deadline; you do not need to go through what I did…
Arlo Nugent

I’ve done a lot of staging with The San Diego Staging Company and they are a great company to work with. They are fast, on time and a good price

I never post reviews but this experience warrants it. Josie, from first contact to last was a complete flake and totally unresponsive. We scheduled a walk through for a Monday, she confirms. I call her on my way to the appt to reconfirm and she says she has a last minute staging come up and had to cancel. No heads up, I called her. We meet up later in the week and she seems knowledgeable, the quote she got me was decent. That’s the only good part. She says she will get me the bid the next day, a few days go by and I receive it less than 48 hours prior to when the staging is supposed to take place. She confirms the staging for that Monday.
Again, I CALL HER, the day the stage is supposed to happen on Monday morning, afternoon and learn around 1:00 that she now says she doesnt have the furniture and can’t do it. It should have already been done by that point!
It doesn’t help that my pics were scheduled for 2 days later, which she knew, and I couldn’t find another stager in that short of time, nor could I resked the pics as the seller wants it on the market ASAP.
The kicker is there was no: sorry about that, my bad, let me get you a discount on the next one. .. just: «I dont think we have the furniture to do it.» That was the last communication I had from Josie.
If you want a flaky stager, run with Josie, you will be all set.

I had a great experience with this company. The owner Simon Saran was very helpful and got my property situated with great furnishings. I would highly recommend this company for all your real estate needs and home furnishing needs. They are fast and very good with getting the job done. They were in and out within an hour. Pricing is unbeatable and quality is excellent.

I contacted Simon to stage a large vacant condo I have listed in downtown. His pricing was very, very reasonable and he and his partner Josie were real pros in both delivering and setting up the furniture in a very short amount of time. You can’t beat the price and the service of San Diego Staging Company!