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title: "Showhomes Home Manager Program"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/f9fe0ad2-2ae2-44b6-bc2e-8e59706f0b71
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/chicago-tribune-showhomes-home-manager-program-finds-success-in-the-chicagoland-area-11730
category: "Home Services"
industry: "Home Services"
published: 2017-04-10T22:17:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:11:22.282Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/26a10dfd6601e2fed79c5cba91e504d34683.jpg
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# Showhomes Home Manager Program

**TL;DR:** Showhomes' Home Manager program offers a unique approach to home staging with on-site managers. The program benefits sellers by keeping homes in show-ready condition and lowering homeowner insurance rates.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-04-10. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/chicago-tribune-showhomes-home-manager-program-finds-success-in-the-chicagoland-area-11730).*

## Story

Sprucing up a home to boost the chances of a sale is nothing new, but there are many other unique approaches to home staging, including Showhomes' Home Manager program. Through Showhomes, "on-site home managers" will move into a vacant home with furnishings, pay utilities and keep the home in show-ready condition while it's waiting to be sold.

Gary Kahn, who has earned the nickname "Gatsby" among his friends, is currently living in the Oscar Mayer Mansion on behalf of Showhomes. Kahn has moved around quite a bit, staging and managing beautiful homes on the North Shore, and loves it.

For the seller, they not only have the benefit of a beautifully staged home and someone to take care of it, but Bliss also told the Tribune that homeowners benefit from lowered homeowner insurance rates, as a vacant property can be more expensive to insure.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Home Services (sector)
- property management (topic)
- home staging (topic)
- insurance rates (topic)
- Oscar Mayer mansion (location)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/chicago-tribune-showhomes-home-manager-program-finds-success-in-the-chicagoland-area-11730). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/f9fe0ad2-2ae2-44b6-bc2e-8e59706f0b71).