Showhomes – a home staging company – allows a hired home manager to live within vacant homes for sale with the intent of making the environment more welcoming to potential buyers.
By Nicole DeCosta
The West Linn Tidings, Aug 19, 2010
Vern Uyetake / West Linn Tidings
Edie Moll with Showhomes in West Linn — a home staging company [...]
Showhomes’ Extreme Home Staging Spotlights Human Props
National Public Radio featured Showhomes Home Staging on its Morning Edition radio show, August 18th, 2010.
NPR reporter Carolyn Beeler interviewed Jonathan and Carla Chiefetz, franchise owners of Showhomes Home Staging in Princeton, NJ, and interview Showhomes Home Manager Bill Worthington.
Here’s a link to the full NPR story which talks [...]
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CBS – David Wiemers is trying to sell his lovely townhome in Rancho Santa Fe.
“It’s three bedroom, three bathrooms, 2,129 square feet,” he said.
It’s filled with beautiful furniture. None of it is his. The furniture belongs to the home’s current occupants, Darla Allen and her husband.
“We just relocated here from another [...]
Jack Hungelmann, an insurance industry expert and author of the bestselling ‘Insurance for Dummies’ book, recently published an online article about the issues owners of vacant homes have with homeowner’s insurance.
In his article: “Showhomes” Solves the Coverage Problems of Home Vacancy“, Hunglemann had this to say about Showhomes:
How Showhomes Works
Showhomes solves both the vacancy [...]
Pat Hermann poses before the mansion she stages in Minnetonka, Minn. AP
Steve Ladurantaye, Real Estate Reporter
Globe and Mail
Forget fresh flowers and percolating coffee, human stagers are where it’s at in the tough, high-end U.S. home market
Patricia Hermann is the ultimate house sitter.
In the past four years, she has lived in six monster homes in Minnesota, [...]
June 03, 2010 — TAMPA – FOX 13 News: Selling a home in today’s economy isn’t easy, but there are ways to speed up the process.
The last two years have been a rollercoaster ride Jim and Nancy Ward. They have been realtors in the Bay Area for nearly 16 years, having gone through the [...]
By Tom Bailey Jr. / Memphis Commercial Appeal
May 5, 2010
About a year ago, the same Brandi Jackson left a $700,000 home in Collierville’s Braystone neighborhood after living in luxury there just 30 days.
Photo by Karen Pulfer Focht / Memphis Commercial Appeal After a successful staging, Brandi Jackson loads up her belongings in a [...]
By K.A. Turner, Mobile Register
Custom builder Jerry Smith of Fairhope staged a few rooms in an empty, high-end house to make it more homey, then liked it so much he staged most of the house.
Kate Mercer/Press-RegisterAngela Blankenship and Tammy Boothe of Show Homes stage the dining room in home in Fairhope’s Rock Creek.
“A lot [...]
Wall Street Journal Features Showhomes and its Innovative Internal Financing Solution
by Julie Bennett, 3.25.2010
During the worst credit crunch in decades, franchise companies have been finding creative ways to open new units.
While banks are expected to lend $6.7 Billion to US franchises this year, it would take $10.1 billion in lending to fully fund newcomers [...]
To get a leg up in a buyer’s market, the real estate industry turns to a little-known niche: professional house sitters.
by Amy Biegelsen
Last weekend, Michelle Sifford and Jennifer Ding helped the Armstead family move into a house in Church Hill with lightning speed. In five days’ time they fully arranged the furniture in the three-bedroom [...]
Thomas Scott, VP of Marketing and Systems Development for Showhomes, helping fix the housing crisis one house at a time. Father, photojournalist, writer, big thinker and author of this blog. tscott@showhomes.com