Thank you for taking the time to read how Diana's "No-Cost" Home Sitting Services can be of great benefit to you and your clients for your vacant home listing.

Diana's Home Sitting Services offers a service designed to enhance the marketability of vacant homes by providing carefully screened, selected and fully insured Home Sitters to live in and properly maintain your clients' home and property. The Home Sitters move into the home with their own furniture on a temporary basis and if necessary, can move out with as little as 10 days notice.

As an experienced Realtor, you know that a furnished and occupied home is much easier to sell than a vacant house. Our carefully selected Home Sitters enhance the marketability of your clients' vacant home by giving it that warm, lived-in appearance as well as maintaining the property in showable condition. They keep the premises clean, shovel snow off walks in the winter, and fertilize, water and mow lawns in the summer. The Home Sitter pays for all utilities, reports any problems or needed repairs and offers increased security to the property. The savings to your client is easily more than $250/month in just the cost of utilities and lawn care alone. This and the added confidence of knowing the house is secure and being cared for will give you and the homeowner valuable peace of mind.

How does the Homeowner benefit? How do you, the realtor, benefit?

	A furnished home shows much better than a vacant one.
	Vandalism is deterred by increased security.
	Insurance companies won't insure a vacant home without increased premiums.
	Problems that could cause damage, such as broken pipes, are caught early and reported.
	You're notified when the home has shown.
	You're notified when your flyer box is empty.
	Your client will appreciate the elimination of costly maintenance and utilities.

Consumer Profile — which verifies SS#	Eviction History
Public Records	Criminal Background
Credit Reports	Wash/Idaho Sex offenders
Residential History	Employment Verification
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Our goal is to match our Home Sitter and their furnishings with your vacant listing. Once a sitter moves in, we add a final touch of decor to compliment the sitter's furnishings. Can you think of a better service to recommend to your clients? You start saving them money right from the start. We can provide you with many references, both Realtors and Homeowners, in the Spokane and Coeur d' Alene area. Call us; we look forward to talking to you!

The House with Nobody in it

By Joyce Kilmer (1886 – 1918)

Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track

I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.

I suppose I’ve passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for a minute

And look at the house, the tragic house, the house with nobody in it

This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass,

And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass.

It needs new paint and shingles, and the vines should be trimmed and tied;

But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside…