Ryan Durkin, who founded Modern Manor showroom in 2010, has a lot of friends in the residential real estate business. He would get requests from his buddies to use his store’s vintage furniture to prep a home to help sell it – known as “staging” a home. … Oleg Bortman, co-founder and associate broker of The Brokery, is using Modern Manor’s staging services at Karma, where only two homes are left for sale, priced at $1.54 million and at $1.64 million. Bortman said he’s a big proponent of staging.