Cindy Montgomery, our top stager and one our Top-Performers each year, sent me these photos of soem homes she staged last week. Cindy is a dynamo with an average of almost 50 homes staged at any given time. Take a look: We often talk about color and contrast and how contrast, even with the lack o
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03/06/2009
Inside Edition ran a story this week on an innovative strategy for staging large, vacant homes with live-in Home Managers; a strategy that allows owners to pay for staging at close and lowers the overall cost to stage but produces excellent sales results: http://insideedition.com/news.aspx?storyI
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03/06/2009
Showhomes was featured on Fox National news Thursday, Friday and in local markets throughout the weekend. The article, focused on the success using Home Managers to stage big, expensive vacant homes is creating. Selling a home vacant in today's market, even if it is new, is the kiss of death; vac
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03/04/2009
Steve Thomas, owner of Showhomes Naperville, sent me these photos of a tricky room he and his team restaged for a Home Manager in a $700k Downers Grove home. Here's what they had to work with to start: Pretty crowded and not what you want to walk into when you first enter the home. THe entertainm
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03/04/2009
Showhomes, America's largest home staging company, has begun a national partnership with NRI Relocation to stage and manage REO homes while they are vacant and on the market for sale. So far this partership is generating results: the first two homes staged with live-in Home Managers sold in les
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02/23/2009
Making Social Networking Work For You One of the big trends at this week's International Franchise conference in San Diego was that Social Networking is an important new evolution in the way companies interact with customers to build brand and drive business. It also has the potential to have an
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02/20/2009
New Home Staging Franchise in Miami / Coral Gables Join us in welcoming our newest Showhomes franchise: Showhomes - Coral Gables!Al and Marisa Salas purchased a franchise after meeting the Showhomes team at the Miami Franchise Expo in January and attended training last week in Nashville. Showhome
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02/20/2009
USA Today ran this story this week on the staggering number of vacant homes for sale. This is a bad sign of the housing market because vacant homes are far harder to sell, sell for rock-bottom prices which erodes home values and take much longer to sell. Showhomes focuses on this niche and has
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02/19/2009
Showhomes, America's largest home staging company, launched a new website early this year: Showhomes provides home staging services for larger and more expensive vacant homes for sale. Most home staged by Showhomes use live in Home Managers to help keep the home in show-to-sell condition and lo
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02/19/2009
Showhomes Riverside just staged this $1.5 million dollar home in Temecula, CA. Riverside county is a tough real estate market, flooded with foreclosures and plumeting home values. For every qualified buyer, there are 30-40 homes to choose from so a home needs every edge it can get! Take a look an
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02/18/2009