Designer Home tenders help you sell
If you are moving but have not yet sold your house, Designer Home Tending could help you sell your home more quickly and for a higher price.
Designer Home Tending provides a home tender who will provide several services, including home improvement and interior design work. You won’t need to get payday advances to use this service. It is free!
Why use designer home tending?
Designer Home Tending started its service based on this statistic:
Professionals, dealing with real estate, agree that a well furnished and decorated home sells faster and at a better price than a vacant home. Designer Home Tending says it has statistics that support this notion across the country consistently selling 20-40 percent faster than area “norms” are.
The web site for Designer Home Tending says:
“We provide a qualified and responsible occupant to care for a home while it is on the market. The home tender pays a modest fee to our service and is contractually obligated to furnish and keep the home attractive to foster a quicker sale.”
Nothing to lose
Designer Home Tending makes its money by charging the home tender, who gets the benefit of housing out of the deal. I find it hard to believe that homeowners don’t have to pay anything for this service, but here is quoted text directly from the Designer Home Tending web site:
The home tender pays a modest fee to our service and is contractually obligated to furnish and keep the home attractive to foster a quicker sale. During their stay the DHT will pay all utilities and maintain the property inside and out. … All home furnishings and décor will be overseen by Designer Home Tending, so we can specifically maintain the integrity and beauty of your home. All expenses are absorbed by our service ~ there is NO COST to a homeowner for this service.
Here’s a list of services Designer Home Tending provides, straight off the company’s web site:
- Your home is furnished and decorated, AT NO COST
- All utilities paid
- Yard mowed and maintained
- Snow removal
- Keeps systems working throughout the home
- Lowers homeowner’s insurance
Fancy and free
Consider that this service is free, I can’t think of any reason why a homeowner who is trying to sell a house would not use this service.
Imagine being a prospective home buyer. If it were me, I’d rather look at homes that were warm and pleasant-smelling. Vacant homes with no utilities will end up cold or scorching hot, depending on the area.
Also, keeping the utilities on will give home buyers the opportunity to make sure that everything works correctly.
Test in the West
Designer Home Tending serves the western United States. Designer Home Tending has offices in the following cities:
- Boise
- Denver
- Las Vegas
- Long Beach
- Los Angeles
- Salt Lake City
Designer Home Tending is a relatively new business, so if you live in the East keep a lookout for a Designer Home Tending office in your area in the future.
You can sign up on the Designer Home Tending web site to either be a home tender or to use the service to help you sell your home.
It sounds too good to be true. I think the thing is predicated on the tender having an income already. Other than that, it could be an interesting experience for someone to go live in huge houses and do a little bit of sprucing up and save on rent. The only thing that’s for sure is that they aren’t going to keep the HBO or the internet on. It still would be interesting.
Yes Hometenders must have an income and they must possess quality furniture in order to be accepted into the program. They must also pass a strict background check. But the low monthly program fees they pay instead of rent more than compenate them.
Yeah, a background check is a great help!
No offense to the ‘good’ companies out there, but as a previous victim to a home tending situation I will say–do your homework first.
The internet is at your finger tips run their name until you are exhausted. Run the owners name, the companies name whatever however until you have satisfied your curiousity. Hire a lawyer and have them review the contract. In my case-I have no rights once I signed it.
Now on a positive note, I love the concept. If you get in with ‘good’ company I still believe a well stagged home will sell a home
I can’t see this working out here in the sticks of Sedona, Arizona. With a tourist-based economy where 12-20k is the usual income, how could anyone afford to furnish a mansion? Or even pay utilities for a $1million+ place?
In Sedona, if you can afford a mansion like this, you can afford to leave it furnished, in my opinion.
I have taken care of mansions while the owners are on vacation, keeping the swimming pools sparkling and the landscape tended, but I would never work for free. I’d say a few hundred a month might be more like it.
Still I hadn’t thought about caring for a mansion until it sells. I’ll have to check with my friends in real estate sales.
Sedona is a town with low tourist incomes and an increasingly transient population. I’d say I’d be a certified quality choice, especially of the usual illegal aliens.