If you are very mobile, have tasteful furniture, are adept at taking care of a house, both inside and outside, and have always dreamed of living in a high-end home (mostly million-dollar homes), this just might be your opportunity.

Quality First Home Marketing, operated by Mary Heineke, rents vacant homes at a discount. The caveat is that the renters must stage the home so that it looks lived in but must also maintain the home -- inside and outside -- in "show-ready" condition for buyers and agents.

Renters must have the ability to furnish the home with tasteful furnishings and live in it as if it were their own, including paying all utilities. However, they have to be ready to move on a moment's notice when the home sells. Rents typically are waaaaaaaaay under market, and the home owner continues to pay mortgage, property taxes, and fire insurance.

Interestingly, not only does Quality First Home Marketing perform background checks and credit checks, but they will Google the applicant, as well as check out their Facebook or MySpace pages.

Appliancants, known as "house managers," must initial 29 items of an independent contractor services agreement, of which the first requirement is to keep the home in "market to sell" condition. That means that whenever the house manager leaves the home, the beds are made, the dishes washed and put away, floors and carpets clean -- a place for everything and everything in its place.

Additional provisions include no pets, no smoking indoors, no garage sales, no leaving town for more than 72 hours with notification, and no contact with the owner or leasing agent.

If you're mobile and looking for a place to live, contact Quality First Home Marketing. Tell them Jim Frimmer, Century 21 Award Realtor, sent you to them. They are not far from me right here in La Mesa.

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