Bulk" is a layman term having the same general meaning as "pool" in capital markets.

One way to approach the real estate tax cost (as apposed to personal property tax on furniture & equipment) is to use the approach that assessors often use when they value income producing properties.

The property rented the day my cleaning crew moved out, in fact I helped the new tenants move furniture in.Due to him paying later and later he got further behind and when he moved out suddenly I realized he was over 2 months behind.

As far as not being able to get below market value, well that's true, but as I expect appreciation to occur, in a year or three I will have made up for the net-loss up front, and over time hopfully the newer materials, mechanicals, and transparency of the house (e..g, no furniture to get in the way of inspections) will pay dividends in the bottom line.

To compare, I looked into rental furniture for doing the staging set up ourselves.

Old tv's, appliances, furniture...just shtuff...in the hallways...and the basement?

They take up a great length of wall space that tenants often are not willing to give up, so they place their couches and other furniture too close to the heater, which is a fire hazard.

Good clean neat tenants with nice furniture make a place look nice and rent quicker.

They said they want 90 days because they are going to deplete their cash with the down payment/closing costs and they want to save up for furniture.

A dwelling-house, as such,contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitant; and though it is, no doubt, extremely useful to him, it is as his clothes and household furniture are useful to him, which, however, make a part of his expense, and not of his revenue.'