The South Florida Daily Blog Featured Showhomes today:

The three-bedroom waterfront estate in Fort Lauderdale normally would rent for about $5,000 a month. But Angela Genereux gets to live there for roughly a third of the cost.

The tradeoff is she has to keep the place in show condition – no dirty dishes or wild color schemes, please — and move out when the place sells.

That’s the deal she struck with Showhomes, a home management and staging company that opened a Fort Lauderdale franchise this summer. The Nashville, Tenn.-based company works with owners of vacant residential properties and their real estate agents, providing live-in managers who make the homes more appealing to potential buyers.

Managers, or stagers, typically bring their own furniture and agree to have the homes ready for showing on 30 minutes’ notice. In exchange, they get reduced housing costs.

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