Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
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Meredith Baer transforms from struggling screenwriter to home staging industry pioneer, building multimillion-dollar business after accidentally discovering staging at age fifty.
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Meredith reveals she lived on San Quentin prison grounds from age six to thirteen because her father served as associate warden, attending one-room schoolhouse while walking past exercising inmates daily.
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