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Showhomes home staging featured on Park Family Insurance & Financial Services blog

February 1, 2011 – 3:19 pm

By: Aaron Park January 18, 2011 Do you have a Vacant Home? Take a look at this idea… What’s at risk when your vacant home is for sale? It’s not a matter of selling your house, packing up your stuff and moving on. Now there’s the issue of your vacant, unfurnished house that remains on [...]

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Memphis Daily News: Home Stagers Get Creative to Sell Homes

January 25, 2011 – 10:08 am

Staging Dreams STACEY WIEDOWER | Special to The Daily News Jan, 2011: With a plethora of homes on the market – many of them languishing there for months – home staging is one of those rare subsets of the housing industry that’s benefited from the economy’s downturn. Home stagers specialize in arranging furniture, decluttering and [...]

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Fed Says Recession Over; For Showhomes Home Staging It Never Happened

January 12, 2011 – 10:48 am

Home staging franchise company up 25% for 2010; sixth record-breaking year since 2004 Showhomes home staging continues to be one of the success stories in the slumping real estate market. Despite a sluggish economy, the Nashville-based home staging franchise company posted a 25 percent gain in individual franchise revenue for 2010. Showhomes has posted record [...]

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New Showhomes Home Staging Franchise in Charleston Hosts Launch

January 8, 2011 – 2:16 pm

Real Estate News Local couple to run Charleston home staging company Jan 8, 2011 An Isle of Palms husband and wife have lined up the Charleston home staging franchise for a company that ensures houses for sale look their best when shoppers visit. Lorelie D. Brown and her spouse Coy Brown head up Showhomes Charleston, [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging in East Valley Sells first home of 2011

January 7, 2011 – 9:01 am

The spectacular $855,000 home in Las Sendas with breathtaking views, travertine floors and a pebbletec pool complete with a a waterfall was priced right and had every amenity possible. The home had a lot going for it; it was far less expensive than the one and two million dollar homes in the neighborhood and was [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Makes Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 List

January 6, 2011 – 10:07 am

Home staging franchise ranked highly in all categories With six years of double digit growth, Showhomes home staging ranked 214th in Entrepreneur Magazine’s popular list of the top 500 franchise companies for 2011. The magazine ranked the home staging franchise in the top 50 low-investment businesses, in the top 100 fastest growing franchise systems and [...]

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Squatters: the Ultimate Scene Stealers

January 4, 2011 – 11:11 am

Dena Kouremetis, Housing Examiner 12/30/2010 The once-elegant, sprawling home now sits empty, silent in it memories of warmth, laughter and belonging.   The ‘for sale’ sign swinging in the winter wind invites prospective buyers, but the brochure box hasn’t seen a fresh brochure in a while and the lockbox is accumulating cobwebs. Agents showing homes in [...]

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Property Trax: Rise in vacant homes leads to more cases of ‘mansion squatters’

December 27, 2010 – 10:48 am

By KAREN RIVEDAL, Dec 23, 2010 As if the owners of mansions weren’t burdened enough. Now comes a report from Showhomes, a nationally franchised network of home stagers based in Tennessee, that the number of ne’er-do-wells shacking up in vacant mansions is on the rise. The increase is tied to the wave of temporarily vacant [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Franchise in Toledo makes quick sell after staging

December 17, 2010 – 10:26 am

December is one of the slowest months for house real estate, but many people strive to sell their house before the New Year. Showhomes Toledo owner, Matt Pokorny, has another staging success story from a real estate market that has seen some of the toughest market conditions in the country: This $400k  house had been [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Heats up Chicago’s Fox Valley Home Sales

December 10, 2010 – 11:20 am

December is one of the slowest months in home sales, but if you ask Michael Callahan, franchise owner of Showhomes Home Staging in the Fox Valley suburb of Chicago you may get a different answer. Why? Showhomes had four homes sell this month. What made the difference? Home staging. The four homes that sold were [...]

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