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Showhomes Home Staging Makes Entrepreneur Magazine’s Annual List of Low-Cost Franchises

June 21, 2011 – 12:37 pm

Franchises costing less than $50,000 to start gaining popularity With the economy struggling to recover and the housing market showing little life, one franchise industry sector has a healthy pulse: franchises that cost $50,000 or less to start. Entrepreneur Magazine, considered by many as the bible for small business owners, listed Showhomes Home Staging on [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Celebrates a Quarter of a Century Staging Homes

June 16, 2011 – 12:52 pm

Cutting-edge home staging pioneer marks 25th anniversary When Showhomes Home Staging launched in 1986, few people understood what home staging was, much less the critical role it played in selling a house faster and for a higher price. The Nashville-based franchisor changed all that with its dynamic ‘home staging with a twist’ concept that combines [...]

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Showhomes Home Staging Ranked in Top 50 Franchise Companies by Franchise Business Review

June 10, 2011 – 5:30 pm

Showhomes has industry high franchise owner satisfaction For the third year in a row, the Franchise Business Review ranked Showhomes Home Staging one of the Top 50 franchise systems based on franchise owner satisfaction. The Franchise 50 – 2011 Franchisee Satisfaction Awards ranked franchisors by their overall levels of franchise owner satisfaction. The Top 50 [...]

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5 Reasons a Vacant House is Hard to Sell From Showhomes Home Staging

May 25, 2011 – 8:33 am

Five reasons vacant houses are hard to sell Musty smelling, bare-walled, vandal-prone properties just don’t sell, said Bob Kohlruss, franchise owner for Showhomes — Folsom Lake. Last year’s U.S. Census figures show that, of the estimated 130 million housing units in the United States, 11.3 percent, about 14 million stood vacant, according to Kohlruss. A [...]

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Philadelphia Inquirer Spotlights Showhomes Home Staging

May 24, 2011 – 10:39 am

May 22, 2011 | By Al Heavens, Philadelphia Inquirer Real Estate Columnist American Public Media’s Marketplace radio program appears to be fascinated by unusual trends in real estate. (I hate to pick on the program, which I listen to frequently, but I didn’t start this.) Two years ago, it reported on real estate agents in [...]

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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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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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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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Chicago Tribune on Showhomes: Sitting Pretty in a Vacant Home for Sale

April 15, 2011 – 4:59 pm

Mary Ellen Podmolik The Home Front April 15, 2011 When does a vacant home for sale, foreclosure or not, have that lived-in look? When someone is living in it. Arnold and Mary Jo Baratz just moved into, but have no intention of buying, a sprawling 7,500-square-foot home in Wayne that includes a sweeping cherry staircase, [...]

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Showhomes: Winning the House Lotto

April 15, 2011 – 4:34 pm

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 | Posted by Marni Jameson I should be in Vegas. Just when I thought my luck had run out I won a long shot with 100 to 1 odds. Partly because I make my bed every day. The lucky streak began with a great job offer — except that it was [...]

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