Furnish Finder vs ?

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Hey everyone,

Apart from Furnish Finder, where are you guys posting your Mid-term Rentals?

We have a place almost completed, 5 mins away from a major Hospital.

Thanks

Melissa Hartvigsen · Answer

Hi Ren,

I post my mid-term rentals on Furnished Finder, and Airbnb (30 minimum setting for bookings). In addition, there are Facebook groups for travel nurses where you can post your housing. You have to be invited and approved for the group.

I also asked each of my previous nurses which company placed them in my area, then asked for the recruiter's contact information. I contacted the recruiter directly and provided them a flyer for my property so they can include it when placing future travel nurses in my area.

If you have multiple units (usually there is a minimum of 4 or 5), then the hospital is usually willing to share your information with their inbound travel staff.

Best wishes,

Melissa

Miguel Del Mazo · Answer

I don't know if this would apply to you, but some folks think that FF works similarly to AirBnB or Vrbo where they will push resident requests to you.  FF will not send possible housing requests unless they are an exact match for what you offer or if the resident chooses to send a direct message. From our experience, every requester puts in the lowest possible rent ("<1200"), so they immediately take themself out of our match criteria, and we don't get a push notification.

Since many of these potential leads actually have converted to renting with us, we check FF at least twice a day on the app and reach out to people looking for housing even if there is a gap in the match criteria.

It's a different style of platform than AirBnB (love them) or Vrbo (indifferent), but we can source a lot of good leads from FF.

You may already know this, so I am responding to anyone who may not know about the nuances of FF.

Nick Zupec · Answer

We use Furnished Finder, Airbnb, Zillow, and Apartments.com. We get a decent number of bookings coming from all of them. We also have our own website with some SEO setup and we get people that find our website through a Google search and reach out direct too. We like to cast a wide net and get as many leads into the funnel as possible.

John Muchiri · Answer

Works on my end. Might have hit it during a maintenance or something

John Muchiri · Answer

I have had great experience getting leads on Furnished Finder for midterm rentals. In fact 99% of my leads and conversions have been from there. There platform is still quite outdated but it gets the job done but it's okay for the price. I use a combination of their messaging tool and direct messages/calling. I've tried booking.com and airbnb but not much traction there.

Bonnie Low · Answer

I only list on Furnished Finder currently and stay full. I do occasionally post about it on some of the social media sites for travel nurses, such as Travel Nurse Gypsy Housing for example. I have a 1/1 and a 2/1 and although I'm seeing lots of different types of travelers, the ones who have been booking my place have all been traveling medical professionals. I've considered putting it on Airbnb but haven't needed to yet.

Allen Duan · Answer

After Furnished Finder, Airbnb is definitely the next place you want to list solely because of how much traffic they get. Depending on who you're targeting to rent your MTR, each website has it's benefits. Furnished Finder is great for travel nurses and more budget conscious travelers. Airbnb can get you more high value bookings if you're property attracts those.

Jamie Banks · Answer

I also list on Zillow, Airbnb, VRBO, and Hello Landing. Most of my travel nurse / medical professional bookings have come from Furnished Finder but the other sites usually appeal to other tenant types like digital nomads, relocating families, etc.

Gabe Chase · Answer

We use FF and Zillow and other sites our PMS syndicates to. Just be careful as not everyone on sites other than FF are working professionals. You should screen everyone the same, but still, it's a bit of a comfort knowing FF is mostly all working professionals. Airbnb is a good option. But they take fees from you and charge the tenant more. So your monthly rate would go up by about 14%... A bit of a turn off for most renters.

Ryan Daulton · Answer

does the FF website work for you?  I get error 404.

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