Furnish the house and include cable TV, Computer + router, Internet, and furniture in the rent.

You have to furnish the newbie appraisers a lot more information and usually the underwriters here will make the supervisor go back out and review the house and not permit juniors to do the investment appraisal portion.

I will hire a staging company to furnish the first floor.

Has anyone heard of selling Fully furnished/decorated houses?

Hey I dont mind if they take the extra day, just so I can personally park myself in front of my rental in a lawn chair with a corona in my hand and watch my tenants and their housefull of TJ Maxx furnishings be thrown on the street by the marshall....But either way - they are out, and come April I put 2 properties on the market.

But I resold it to O/O cash buyers.In August I bought and sold an adorable 2/1 that I bought for $30K that was rent ready (and fully furnished) in a desert town outside of Santa Maria.

We also made different choices in picking the house and furnishing etc because it is a rental.Ours pays for itself but that was not true at first.

A SF that was used as a rental may resemble the multi's I described.

We had probably put a bit too much of the high end furnishings and done some upgrades that were not necessary due to the fact that it did not start out as a flip.

@Kyle DoneySo I purchased a home in Portland hoping to make it pay for itself and am actually making money and am really torn between expanding my "furnished rental portfolio of 1 :)" or turning to traditional homes or multi-family residences.While my market is different than yours, the best way I have found to determine the market is to look at VRBO.com.