If you need to get furniture for your Boca Raton real estate but are not ready to buy, you can always rely on rentals. However, is it really worth the money?
Let’s say you can get a nice couch for $12 a month. Now, let’s see, in one year you would have paid $480 to use it, but you wouldn’t own it. A lamp will have cost you $144 and it’s the same situation. At the end of your lease, you still own nothing.
Most of us would think it foolish to rent furniture. But that isn’t always the case. There are situations where renting may be the best option. Consider these scenarios:
- Your company transfers you to a new home for sale in Boca Raton, but the rest of your family is staying in your present home until the school year ends. And that’s almost 6 months away. You buy a house and live in it until your family arrives. Do you go out and buy new furniture or do you rent a few necessities in the meantime?
- Right after you get married, you move into a new home. You and your spouse haven’t decided how you want to decorate your home. Will you build an office or a nursery in the future?
- You graduate from college and accept a position in an unfamiliar city. You find an apartment that has everything you want, except furniture. You can’t afford to go out and purchase the items you’ll need right away.
If you find yourself in any of these situations, renting all or part of your furniture may be a viable option. The thing you have to keep in mind is that it’s never a long-term solution. You can see how expensive renting is over the long haul.
However, when you find yourself without furniture, short term rental may be your best option. If you don’t have the cash or credit to purchase what you need, or if you only plan to be without furniture for a little while, short-term rental may be the best solution.
- The bedroom package usually includes a double or queen-size bed, nightstand, and lamp, along with one chest.
- A living room package provides a couch, end table and lamp, cocktail table, and a chair.
- A dining room package includes a table and 4 chairs.
- You can also rent any accessories you may need, such as cookware, china, rugs, additional lamps, TVs, and stereo equipment.
As long as you rent only what you need and do so for as short a time as possible, furniture rental may be the solution you need. But don’t forget to calculate the cost of your rent or mortgage along with the cost of your furniture rental before you decide which package to choose.
In short, furniture rental can be an economically sound solution to your problem, if you use your common sense and don’t get in over your head. It beats sleeping on the floor in a Boca Raton luxury home.
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