Furnished Rentals Blog

Over the past 2.5 years that FurnishedRentals.com has been online, I’ve occasionally received emails from people who own a property and are thinking of furnishing it and renting it out to people looking for a short-term rental.  They usually ask me the same thing….who is out there looking to rent furnished apartments and houses, and is there any demand for this type of rental in my area of the world?

Even though there are many many listings on FurnishedRentals.com, I still get emails every day from people all over the world asking me to help them find a furnished apartment or house to rent, usually from anywhere between 2 weeks and 6 months.

When these people email me, I find it interesting that they often describe their situation, and why they need a short-term furnished rental.  I’ve noticed that they usually fall into certain categories.  There’s the retired people who are spending a month visiting their children or grand-children in another city and are looking to rent a furnished apartment to stay in.  There’s the people who are being sent to work in another city for a few months and want something more than a hotel room.  There’s the families who are relocating to another city or country and need a furnished house to live in while they look for a house to purchase.  There’s the people who are simply on vacation, and don’t want to stay in a hotel.  There’s people who will be going to a school in another city for month or two.  I’ve even got an email from a family who’s house burned down in a fire, and they needed a furnished house to rent in their own city while they get their life back together.

So if you’ve been wondering who rents short-term furnished apartments and houses, the answer is that a lot of people rent them for a lot of different reasons.  Make sure to keep this in mind when marketing your property, and try to target as many of these different groups as possible to maximize your success.