Furnishing and Staging for Long Term Rentals

[Tom Dempsey]

I am very familiar with short term rentals and having them fully staged for Airbnb bookings and other 2-3 night stays. This is more so targeted to the investors that have a portfolio of long term rentals. Do you guys fully furnish / stage the properties before finding tenants to rent for a year or two? Or do you typically find that there are more renters looking to bring in their own furniture?

[Landon Bleau]

I would say definitely don't provide furniture.  1) unnecessary expense 2) long term renters are much harder on furniture than short term renters 3) If you provide their furniture, it's much easier for them to move out leading to higher turnover, costing hundreds or thousands every year.  If they have to bring their own furniture, it's a LOT more work to move out, ie getting friends/family together to move furniture, renting van, taking a whole weekend/time off work, etc.