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Saturday, January 3, 2009

1/3/08 A home manager is essentially a live-in stager, as well as a caretaker and cleaner extraordinaire.


Messy Al Gore Would Not Be A Good Greenwich Home Manager




New York Times


WANTED: Compulsively neat, highly organized people to live in houses being marketed for sale. Must keep house suitable for showing at all times. Dirty dishes, used bath towels and stray newspapers strictly prohibited.


Salary? None. Length of time in house? Unpredictable.


If this description serves only to remind you what a mess your own house is, you are probably not “home manager” material......


.....Kerrin O’Brien worked with Unique Property Marketing as a house manager for two Greenwich properties after she and her partner, Tamara, sold their own home there. “We were thinking we’d be moving to New Jersey at some point,” said Ms. O’Brien, a real estate investor, “but we weren’t ready to buy or build, given the economy.”


One of the properties they moved into had been on the market and vacant for at least two years. After they moved in, it sold within a few months, she said.....

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