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DESIGNER HOMETENDING OPENS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
OFFERING HOMEOWNERS TEMPORARY OCCUPANCY FOR HOMES SALES
LOS ANGELES, January 6, 2009– Designer HomeTending, a temporary and free occupant service for owners of vacant homes, has entered the Southern California market. Beth Hirsch, general manager, heads the firm's Los Angeles office.
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 January 30, 2009 will receive a free virtual tour on tourfactory.com worth approximately $200.
"Our concept has been proven in markets that are realizing the effects of the economic and housing downturn," says Cathy Cardenas, Designer HomeTending founder and CEO. "Instead of showing a vacant, undecorated home, our hometenders create a model home look and feel, providing prospective buyers with the ability to visualize the home's potential. And our hometenders are often assisted by a professional home stager to create the perfect selling environment."
Adds Hirsch, "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."
"Our service, now launching in Los Angeles and the greater Southern California area, can be the great equalizer or key solution to getting homes off the market. 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," concludes Cardenas. The Los Angeles office can be reached by calling 323-215-5615, or on the Web at www.designerhometending.com.
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Before and after photos available from sandy@aldrichpr.com.