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DESIGNER HOMETENDING OPENS SECOND OFFICE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
OFFERING HOMEOWNERS TEMPORARY OCCUPANCY FOR HOME SALES
LOS ANGELES, January 16, 2009– Designer HomeTending, a temporary and free occupant service for owners of vacant homes, has opened in Long Beach, the company's second Southern California office since entering the market late last year. Sharon Faustina, general manager, heads the firm's Long Beach office.
Faustina owns several properties in Southern California and Utah and has many years of experience in real estate investing. Prior to working for Designer HomeTending, she utilized the service in Utah and has extensive knowledge of real estate ownership and management. Faustina has also worked as a controller for a manufacturing company after serving four years with Deloitte & Touche as an auditor. She obtained a bachelor's degree in accounting from California State University, Long Beach, holds an active certification with the California State Board of Accountancy, and is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Designer HomeTending, the leading company of its kind in the United States, with additional offices in Boise, Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, assists owners of vacant homes by providing experienced and pre-qualified temporary live-in managers to care for homes while on the market. There is no cost to homeowners, real estate agents or builders for this service, and hometenders "can live in mansions for the price of studio apartments."
Designer HomeTending matches approved, professional live-in hometenders with homes until they sell, making the homes more visually appealing to prospective buyers, safer for their neighborhoods, and insurable. The company maintains that homes sell 40 to 60 percent faster if professionally staged and cared for by subcontracted hometenders. And for a limited time, homeowners and real estate agents who join the program by February 28, 2009 will receive a free virtual tour on tourfactory.com worth approximately $200.
Says Cathy Cardenas, Designer HomeTending founder and CEO, "Los Angeles-area homes in the program will also be provided with housekeeping, lawn and pool services to help keep the homes presentable to prospective buyers, and our hometenders are often assisted by a professional home stager. Hometenders help bring life back into a vacant home, and that can be a positive selling point for a market filled with thousands of vacant houses."
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Before and after photos available from sandy@aldrichpr.com.