Hi,
I am moving from Europe to Dallas soon, and I was wondering what would be better to rent a furnished or unfurnished home. We are taking about a 3/4 bedrooms house for my husband, our baby and myself. Do you know if there are good furnished houses for rent or should we go for unfurnished and bring all our furniture over?
2007-10-18 20:41:18 · 7 answers · asked by TOTOs 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
go on craigs list, personally I think unfurnished. Less liablity. How long do you plan on staying? I also found one on craigs list that looks cute check it out:)
Good Luck
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2007-10-18 20:45:04 · answer #1 · answered by sunshine24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For how long do you want to rent?
Most of the rentals in Dallas are large and small apartment complexes and much smaller homes than you are talking about.
I would expect a large furnished home to be only available for a limited time (because the owners are overseas, etc.) and to cost twice what an unfurnished would cost. Unfurnished homes are likely to be those that have not sold that they want occupied while they see what the market is doing. It is apparently not as bad in Dallas as elsewhere.
I don't know what you are used to, but houses in Dallas almost never have basements - the given square footage is all you get.
2007-10-18 20:50:46 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello! I currently work for a temporary housing company in the U.S. and I can give you the pros and cons. If you decide to do furnished, you will not have to worry about your bringing all your belongings and the cost involved to haul it over/have movers bring it in. But, as posted below..if you decide to do the furnished make SURE they clean everything first. My company cleans everything before we have a new move in..sometimes we even replace the stuff prior if need be. However if you are going to a house that is rented out all the time (similar to a hotel) then they most likely own everything and it's been reused over and over again. The length of the lease is another factor. If you do a furnished apartment they tend to do shorter leases in some cases. The unfurnished I've seen usually require a 6-12 month lease. If that's ok then you don't have to even worry about that. Our company does not charge a deposit to do a furnished apartment and the utilites, internet, cable and phone are included...maybe you could get that type of deal. If it's a private owner they will probably charge a deposit and you'd pay for your own utilites. If you want more info on this then feel free to shoot me an email! I could go on all day about this stuff!! :) Good luck in whichever decision you choose!
2007-10-19 02:03:21 · answer #3 · answered by fontainegraphix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First my answer then why. Unfurnished. Now why? Let me ask you this do you want used food or fresh food. Pick the healthier one for your family. Whats the difference? Liability for who ever rents it and the fact someone else used the furniture that you dont know. What did they have? Did they clean it? Those are the questions you should have with yours kids living in it:)
2007-10-18 20:54:22 · answer #4 · answered by tob_tai 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go for the furnished house, leave behind your furniture, maybe you go back for holidays
2007-10-18 20:44:22 · answer #5 · answered by Thousand Sunny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Dale and Nicki Lewis posted the same question. You should read their answers side by side.
2016-08-26 03:33:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was about to post this question too this afternoon
2016-09-19 04:28:28 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋