Making the decision to buy furniture or rent furniture for your home staging job is really a challenge for home stagers. But for many, they buy new furniture when organizing empty houses and only rent furniture for already furnished houses. One of my previous articles discussed the advantages and disadvantages of buying furniture for home staging, so this one will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of renting furniture based on what I have observed in my long career in real estate.
There are clear advantages to renting furniture. One is that you don’t need a large initial investment to be able to rent furniture. Also, you don’t have to transport it to the house yourself and this is an advantage for you because it gives you more time to do the real work – the house preparation work. However, although there are these clear advantages, many home staging experts do not prefer furniture rental. They often said that he is not “attractive”.
Disadvantages of furniture rental according to a large number of professionals and experts in home stager:
1. Furniture rentals tend to be neutral, often blandly contemporary, and not a good way to find the great pieces of furniture you’ve envisioned to give the house that amazing look, because more often than not, the ones you’re looking for They are not available from rental companies.
2. When it comes to the cost, it is expensive because most of the companies that offer furniture rental require a minimum period of 3 months. This means that after you reach the 3-month period, you will have to pay again for each piece of furniture you have rented.
If we are to compare buying furniture and renting furniture, buying somehow stands out for the time it can give homeowners (your clients) and allows them to save money by not restricting them to the minimum three month contract. However, buying is expensive, but at least you can keep the parts that you will buy for your home staging job. It is a one-time payment so it will save you money.
Also, when buying furniture, you can choose each piece. You can choose the designs and styles that appeal to you and keep them. No more paying rent!
3. Limited options. Like I said before, you can’t find everything you like in furniture rentals. This is because your options are limited. Just one example, you have an assembly job in an empty modern house and you decided to rent furniture from a rental company. Unfortunately, when you arrive at the rental company, there is no more modern furniture to match the modern house, you will have no choice but to rent furniture that does not match the style of the house that you will be staging.
