Also wondering if anyone has a place they would recommend to buy furniture?

From there, my wife started browsing at furniture on nextdoor, facebook, and craigslist.

Furniture has all sorts of different depreciation schedules and a good CPA will be able to untangle that whole mess and pay for themselves each year!

Quote from @Josh Gibson: Flooring specialists can move the furniture.

Everytime a have a vacancy I'm too lazy to buy the furniture to turn it into a STR, but one of my good buddies does and he is making a killing on it.

My guess is that it's more windows to clean (on both sides), more to cover, dictates furniture and decoration placement, more to potentially require repair, and greater risk of entry from the elements, heating/cooling loss, etc

Be sure to order furniture way ahead of time.

But if the state/county pillaging your pocket book with ridiculous made up taxes is frustrating to you then you're not going to find Florida much better than California.I just got my furniture tax form in the mail today. 

About 30 years ago some clown who swam across the border was working as a shipper for a furniture manufacturing company and he hardly spoke any English.

There's a lot of risk, and honestly as an owner if you come to me and tell me you can make enough to cover the rent and furniture and still make a profit, I'm thinking "well maybe I should just do that myself..."