Furnishing Multiple Properties

Furnishing our own properties is difficult enough, and furnishing a single property to let is an even bigger challenge, but just imagine these requirements multiplied over multiple properties in multiple locations or multiple plots in a housing development and it’s a challenge of nightmare proportions.

The problem is that a well designed and well furnished property will make a huge difference when it comes time to sell or let. The location may be perfect, the exterior striking, but you know the saying and you know it well – it’s what’s on that inside that counts.

Property owners shouldn’t be expected to be interior designers as well, but luckily for them, there’s a solution that make furnishing multiple properties quick, simple and perhaps most importantly, cost effective.

Furniture packages for landlords are a great quick fix solution. Furniture packs are pre compiled sets of furniture that have been put together, generally by a team of professional interior designers, as a high quality solution to furnishing your property. They come either as a package for the whole property or a package for specific rooms in the property.

Perhaps the most important benefit of furniture packs is cost savings. Because the companies that provide furniture packages buy big and buy often, they can pass their cost savings on to their clients. The costs of direct purchases from retailers and resellers can vastly exceed the cost of companies selling furniture packs. You can also expect discounts when purchasing multiple packages, and in some cases, discounts for packs that furnish the whole property. The likelihood that you’ll get similar cost savings from high street retailers is incredibly unlikely.

The second major benefit is the simplicity and speed at which you can furnish a house. Imagine ordering from retail for multiple pieces of furniture going to multiple different properties. You’ll have to be there to take every delivery, sign every one off and potentially move it in yourself (some companies won’t even move it in to your house). That’s time better spent elsewhere and that time could be earning you money. Furniture packages can be chosen, bought and delivered to multiple properties generally within 24-48 hours. The packs will be delivered, moved in and installed all in one fell swoop, giving you a quicker turnaround, meaning you can get people into your properties even quicker.

Quality of the furniture is the third major benefit. Any reputable furniture pack company will pride itself on the fact that they source and compile furniture of the best quality in a range of diverse, contemporary and stylish designs. It’s in their best interest to provide hard wearing, well designed furniture. If it isn’t good looking and long lasting, they can forget about return business, they can forget about property developers and investors coming back time and time again to use their services.

As we said in our introduction, furnishing a single property is a challenge in itself. It’s hard work, it’s complex, and unless you have a natural spark for interior design, you’re going to struggle. But there is a solution that is simple, cost effective, stylish and practical – furniture packages.

Disaster Strikes: Emergency Furniture Hire To The Rescue!

However prepared we are, however well we’ve planned things out, it just happens - it’s out of our control. It’s moments like these that a quick turnaround counts. If you find yourself without furniture, and desperately need to set up a new residence quickly, easily, and perhaps more importantly, cost effectively, then emergency furniture rental might be just the solution.

With quick turnarounds, emergency furniture hire can get you through when times are tough and deadlines tight. Any furniture rental company should be able to turn around your order quickly and have everything delivered and installed within 24-48 hours. Everything from full furniture packages to a kitchen refit to white goods to bed linen can be replaced in next to no time and at a fraction of the cost of a purchase.

Whether it’s a quick move to temporary accommodation, a broken link in the chain delaying a house purchase or something worse, emergency hire is a solution that is reliable and incredibly practical. The reality is that replacing or getting new furnishings anywhere close to the level of comfort or price in such a short period of time is very unlikely, but these aren’t the only benefits.

Emergency rental from gives you the option of short term contracts and short term contracts mean that you won’t be caught in a trap if you need to send the furniture back. Any good quality company won’t only deliver and install within 24-48 hours, but they’ll also collect and remove within a similar time frame, meaning you’re not spending money on furniture you don’t need.

Emergency furniture rental solutions aren’t only for the home either; it’s also available for the workplace, with office furniture delivered in a similar timeframe, is available for multiple offices at a time as a scalable solution and can be hired on short term contracts.

Whatever mishap led you to this point, there is a solution out there that can solve the problem in a short time frame and at a low cost. You can be confident in the fact that there are experts out there that deal with thousands of people stuck in what must seem like an impossible situation, but is easily solved with a service that makes it easier than ever to find a furnishing solution.

Furniture Solutions For Landlords

Being a landlord isn’t easy. If it isn’t the constant fears of a difficult tenant, rent not paid on time, damage to the property, something to fix, getting in the sparkys to deal with the lights or the chippys to fix a broken door – the list of responsibilities is endless and it really is a lot for anybody to take on by themselves. Ditto this and times by four if you’re landlord with multiple properties to look after. So is it fair that landlords are expected to be expert interior designers as well?

The way a property is furnished can absolutely make or break its earning potential. Unfurnished, you can expect to charge lower rent and fully furnished, you’ll be able to charge more but it’s going to cost a fair amount of money to get the place kitted out. Somewhere in the middle is always an option but somewhere in the middle means flexibility, and because (the majority of) landlords can’t learn the furnishing requirements of their future tenants through palm reading, crystal balling or messages from the spirit world, pre-empting the furnishing requirements of your future tenants can be incredibly difficult.

Understanding the kind of tenants that a property will attract is crucial. There’s no way of guaranteeing every tenant is going to want the same thing, but a general idea of the average demand should set you on the right path. What kind of area is your property in? Quiet suburbs tend to attract families and professional couples, whereas inner city apartments and house shares tend to attract young professionals. Properties near universities are of course perfect for students. Once you understand what kind of tenant your property is going to attract, you’ll find it a little easier to start planning how to furnish it.

Families and professional couples tend to have accrued furnishings over time and from previous properties, so fully furnishing the property may result in costs from removals and storage. Providing the essential white goods may be the best solution for this type of tenant and the only real requirement.

Young professionals and students tend to require a little more in the way of furnishing, so along with the white goods; sofas, beds and storage should be included.

Good quality furnishings and white good should be top of the list, as quality pays out in the end. Poor quality, cheap furniture will only require replacing regularly. A solid set of furniture that’s built to last will cost you less in the long run, and can be reused through various tenancies.

Furniture packages are a solid solution to furnishing a property and even more useful for furnishing multiple properties and plots. Many are designed by professional interior designers, and the size and scope of the package can be tailored to fit the particular requirements of the property, making the most out of the space. Landlord furniturepackages cut a good deal of the hassle of furnishing a property out of the equation, and with a good company able to turn around your order within 24-48 hours, including delivery and installation, you can get your property kitted out quickly, effectively and generally a lot cheaper.

Self furnishing can really be hard work. Picking and choosing furniture item by item is one thing, but waiting for deliveries from multiple sources with multiple delivery dates can eat up a lot of time and resources.

Furniture hire is another solution, and it allows the greatest degree of flexibility. Like furniture packages, hire companies use interior designers to source and buy their furnishings. Quality tends to be very high as well, as the costs of replacement on the part of the hire company for furniture that doesn’t last would cost a hire company a good amount of money. The major benefit with hire is that returning furniture that’s not required between tenancies is an incredibly simple process, and the company will come and collect and remove the furniture, leaving you with no further costs (like storing your own furniture would).

If you’re determined to get things done on your own, then remember that quality pays off in the long term. We’re not talking hand cut marble dressers here, but that extra bit of money will go a long way. Go neutral with your colours, and try and keep the furnishings practical rather than showy, as flashy will put off a lot more tenants than practical and elegant.

As we said, furnishing a property is tough. Heed our advice, understand your market and work out what it is your property needs to appeal to the widest amount of potential tenants.