{"id":44649,"date":"2003-10-08T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=44649"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:28:48","slug":"rent-a-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2003\/10\/08\/rent-a-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent-A-Husband founder to speak at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Bates Office of Career Services, the event is open to the public at no charge. For more information, please call 207-786-6232.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Warren, a veteran contractor and Cumberland native, founded the Rent-A-Husband franchise chain in 1996. Since then he and the business have been profiled in such publications as People, Good Housekeeping and The Washington Post, and on television&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show&#8221; and &#8220;Oprah Winfrey Show.&#8221; Warren is also the resident home improvement expert on the CBS &#8220;Saturday Early Show&#8221; and the co-author, with Jane MacLean Craig, of the book <em>The Official Rent-A-Husband Guide to a Safe, Problem-Free Home<\/em> (Broadway Books, 2001).<\/p>\n<p>Rent-A-Husband provided Warren with a route to recovery after a debilitating car accident cost him his construction business, home and marriage. Starting as a one-man operation designed to tackle all manner of household projects, from air-conditioning installation to yard raking, the business today has franchises in six states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3282],"class_list":["post-44649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44649\/revisions\/92923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}