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Renting Vs. Buying Furniture: Is It Worth It?
New Furniture is Expensive
Whenever you are moving into a new home, you need furniture for everyday living. Anyone who has shopped for furniture knows it is expensive to furnish an entire home with couches, beds and tables. For someone on a strict budget, furnishing an entire home at once is almost impossible due to the cost. Of course, it is possible to buy furniture with monthly payment plans or credit cards, but interest charges can lead to huge expenses with this option. Individuals living temporarily in a residence may not want the hassle of buying and moving furniture that is only required for a year or less.
Reasons to Rent Furniture
Renting furniture is a great option for students living in small apartments or someone who is transferred frequently in a job. There are two options when renting furniture, including renting to own that is similar to making a payment each month or renting for a short amount of time. College students often want a short-term option because they will only live in an apartment for eight to nine months during the school year and return to a parent’s home for the summer. An individual living in a new location for a few months for a work assignment may also want to rent furniture instead of buying new items to furnish a home.
Have the Latest Furniture Trends
Alternatively, you might enjoy changing a home’s décor frequently but find it unaffordable when buying furniture. For someone wanting the latest trends, renting furniture is an excellent option. Other things to consider concerning renting vs. buying is maintaining furniture that gets dirty or degraded. If upholstered furniture collects dirt and debris, then it requires shampooing on a regular basis. Anyone who buys furniture must spend a lot of time keeping it clean and making repairs while rented furniture is maintained by rental companies. In most cases, rental companies understand that a certain amount of wear and tear occurs to furniture and cleaning costs are included as part of the rental fee.
Rummage Sale Furniture
Sometimes there are good alternatives to buying furniture such as shopping at rummage sales or charity stores. You can often find great bargains this way but must use caution before bringing the items home. Used furniture can carry contamination, especially insects that crawl into tiny spaces. The dangers of infestations from upholstered furniture, including mattresses, chairs and ottomans is possible with the insects invading other areas of a home. A new or rental furniture store has specialized methods to destroy insects that are lurking deep inside items before customers take the items home.
Understand Your Budget
Moving furniture is a strenuous task that requires more than one person to complete. Unless you are physically able to lift furniture onto a truck at a charity store or rummage sale, you must have items delivered by movers. Many furniture stores that sell new merchandise charge an extra fee for delivery while a rental store offers this option as part of its services. In addition, you need to decide what your financial budget is before buying or renting furniture. A new matching set of living room furniture can easily cost over $2000.00 while you can rent an entire home’s worth of furniture for $200.00 a month instead.
Tulsa Property Managers is a Jenks property management company offering professional property and real estate management, consulting and sales services throughout the Jenks and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma area.
