New "Senior Stages" Division Gives StagedHomes.com the Lead in Innovative Career Training and Home Based Business Opportunities.

CHICAGO -- StagedHomes.com, creators of "home staging", the most important new marketing practice for the residential housing market, reveals the next cutting edge opportunity for home based business owners. Introducing, Senior Stages, the new division of StagedHomes.com dedicated to serving the 55+ housing market.

Consistent with their ability to recognize career opportunity through trends in Real Estate, StagedHomes has partnered with experts in senior relocation and home modification to create the national "CRTS" training program, Certified Relocation and Transition Specialist.

Beginning with 3-day classroom setting instruction, the CRTS program is designed to educate home based business owners in the basics of how to identify and communicate with their 55+ clients and how to manage and coordinate a home transition. Whether learning to relocate a couple from their family home to retirement living or move an elder to a community setting or help a widow age-in-place, the CRTS program provides fundamental tools required to get started in the industry.

With today's "sandwich generation", adult children of aging parents are often already juggling family and career responsibilities. Finding additional time to locate moving resources, sort through years of personal possessions, pack, unpack donate, sell or otherwise allocate family assets can be a daunting prospect, no matter how much an individual wishes to support mom and dad and their housing needs. A CRTS is trained to coordinate and manage the entire home transition process, while providing advocacy, resources, information, labor and expertise.

The CRTS program is supported by post-graduate marketing programs, online continuing education and local mentoring resources. CRTS graduates submit to a background check and adhere to a strict code of standards and professional practices. The CRTS program and its graduates enjoy endorsement and support from the National Association of Move Managers (NASMM), whose ranks include many respected members in the senior home transition industry.

Senior Stages also enjoys industry relationships with national service companies such as 1-800-Got-Junk and PODS portable storage, along with a variety of senior housing communities and educational organizations.

Currently, StagedHomes.com has trained over 12,000 Accredited Staging Professionals (ASP) nationwide. Offices are located in Chicago, IL and Concord, CA. Training courses are held throughout the United States and Canada. For more information on Senior Stages and the national Certified Relocation and Transition training program, logon to www.seniorstages.com or call StagedHomes.com at 1-800-392-7161.