The people who once lived there leave the house a total mess, including leaving furniture, dishes in the sink, rotten food in the fridge ect.

My company offers Furniture and or Houseware packages for Investors who sell / rent Furnished Housing.

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

Do you rent the furniture?

Our agreement with our stager was a "design fee" up front and then monthly furniture rental was paid out of escrow upon closing.

Like shoving furniture against the applicance cord and breaking the wall socket.

That gave me time to scrub the bathroom up better, clean some marks off the walls, etc.Once, I had damaged a door trying to move some furniture, but I explained the damage to the landlord, and because the rest of the place was immaculate, and I'd been honest, they let me off and said 'We were going to replace the doors anyway'.I was lucky, and would have been happy to pay.I hope the OP got their deposit back, or a valid explanation as to why it was withheld!

Open a teak patio furniture store.

Another question i have is does it make a difference if i rent them with or without furniture?

Be very careful as who you try to HELP...We ran into this once, and I hate to say this, but it was a colored couple, and they know how to be the victims...They were losing thier house, but it wasn't thier fault, I mean, hey they had not payed thier morgage in 6 months, nice car out front, nice furniture in the house, you know the story.