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New To a City? Consider Test-Driving Homes as a Showhomes Home Manager

May 23, 2011 – 5:00 am

An interview with Showhomes Home Manager Ann Talbot Ann Talbot moved to Nashville from New Mexico to start over. Looking for a fresh start, Talbot was ready to make Nashville her home, but worried about finding an affordable place to live. In her search for a temporary home, an ad for a Showhome with no [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging in Tampa Wins ‘Franchise of the Year’ National Award

May 18, 2011 – 10:54 am

Showhomes Home Staging, a national home staging franchise, has awarded its Tampa location its coveted Franchise of the Year award. The home staging franchise has a twist that is producing results in today’s real estate market: it uses live-in Home Managers to help sell vacant houses. The company helps homeowners and their Realtors in the [...]

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Milwaukee Home Staging Franchise Posts Top Revenue in Country

May 18, 2011 – 5:00 am

Local home staging company kicks off 2011 with award for January Showhomes-Southeast Wisconsin posted the highest revenue in January among more than 75 franchises in the national home staging system, turning tough times into a win for local homeowners. This was the first top sales award for the local company, which provides home staging services [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Scores Across the Board in Entrepreneur’s 2011 Rankings

May 17, 2011 – 5:00 am

Magazine highlights Showhomes Home Staging in fast-growing, low-cost and home-based business categories In addition to ranking in Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2011 list of the top 500 franchise companies, Showhomes Home Staging scored highly in three important categories: low-cost, fastest-growing and home-based businesses. Nashville-based Showhomes Home Staging franchise has gained national media attention for its “home staging [...]

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Five minutes with Showhomes Home Staging’s ‘Franchise of the Year’ Linda Saavedra

May 12, 2011 – 1:51 pm

Linda Saavedra’s Showhomes Tampa franchise has soared since opening in 2009, despite its launch during tough economic times. Just two short years later, Saavedra, a former corporate executive and veteran small business owner, picked up Showhome’s most prestigious award – Franchise of the Year. When Saavedra first encountered the Showhomes Home Staging business model, she [...]

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Franklin, N.C., Gets New Showhomes Home Staging Franchise

May 10, 2011 – 3:09 pm

Showhomes Home Staging continues its growth in North Carolina as a new franchise opens in Franklin. At a time that has seen the real estate market fall to a low point and struggle to rebound, Showhomes Home Staging continues to beat market conditions and increase revenues. In many markets, staged Showhomes are beating local market [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Franchise Opens for Business in Cincinnati

May 10, 2011 – 2:57 pm

Recognized as one of the bright spots in a down real estate market, Showhomes Home Staging continues its growth in Ohio. The newest franchise is open for business in Cincinnati. The new franchise provides home staging services as well as live-in Home Managers in the metro Cincinnati area, specifically Warren, Clermont, and eastern Hamilton counties. [...]

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Live-in models beat a lick of paint when selling empty houses

May 5, 2011 – 4:33 pm

Showhomes home staging was featured in The Times of London, the UK’s largest newspaper today by US Business columnist Alexandra Frean: By Alexandra Frean American Notebook May 5 2011 It’s tough to sell an empty home. Buyers can be put off by the bare surroundings and a single nail hole in the wall can assume [...]

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Showhomes featured on Public Radio Marketplace

May 3, 2011 – 11:16 am

Cottage industry outfits foreclosed homes with temporary residents — to make properties more attractive to potential buyers. Before and after transformations by home-staging company Showhomes. (showhomes.com) TESS VIGELAND: Hundreds of thousands of homes in this country are somewhere in the foreclosure process. They’ve received notice of foreclosure, or they’re awaiting final seizure and sale by [...]

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NPR: Stingy Banks Come Around to Quirky Home Staging

April 19, 2011 – 2:21 pm

Stingy Banks Come Around to Quirky Home Staging Tuesday, April 19th, 2011, by Blake Farmer, NPR Tens of thousands of empty houses remain as evidence of the mortgage crisis. In Tennessee alone, census data show nearly 320,000 vacant properties. Some are houses that just won’t sell. Others are foreclosures – bank-owned properties. And now a [...]

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