Save Time & Money Furnishing Your Property (new options)

do you need some help furnishing your property you are in luck we have the ability to work now with virtual designers easier than ever and they're going to help us save a lot of time sourcing the furniture there's actually some websites we can do it all in the same place and i want to share those with you this week welcome to short-term rental riches we'll discuss investing in real estate but with a specific focus on short-term rentals quick actionable items to acquire manage and scale your

portfolio i'm your host tim hubbard welcome back to the short-term rental riches podcast happy happy happy you're here again as always it's fun doing these podcasts and uh we do appreciate all the feedback and the reviews if you haven't left this one yet i would really appreciate if you would head over to itunes or spotify wherever you're listening and just leave us a real quick one i want to jump into today's episode and talk about getting some additional help furnishing our property now furnishings super important

right it's what our guests see before they make a decision to book our property and so we got to make sure that it is good that we did a good job so there's tons of resources to learn about interior design now we've got youtube we've got pinterest there's another great app called houzz that i really like it's h-o-u-z-z there's tons and tons of cool apps for interior design but even then even with all of this are you sure that you are the best person for the

job well if you're at all doubtful or you think you could use a little help well that's what this week's episode is about it's about getting some additional help from virtual designers i want to share some websites with you and also where you can order the furniture do it all in the same spot so if you didn't listen to last week's episode number 125 jump back and check that one out we talked about floor plans and why it's really important to have a floor plan for

our property especially when we're furnishing right this is what the pros use the pros use floor plans we can't space new furniture out in a space as easily without a floor plan so go back and check that out it won't take you long at all to create a floor plan and you're going to need it to work with your virtual designers so where do we go from here well if we're just working with one room for example there's quite a few places we can go we

can go to fiverr or we can go to upwork those are places where you can find outsourced work you can send them that floor plan or you can send them pictures of the areas and they can create a floor plan for you or space for you it might be slightly different depending on who you're working with but they can create a 3d image of your room with furniture in it virtual furniture that is right we can do all this remotely and you'll be impressed if you

haven't seen this already i mean you can't even tell sometimes that these properties that these aren't real pictures with real furniture in them it's pretty crazy i i have a property manager that helps me with some of my long-term rentals and we had one come up for lease and she said hey i virtually furnished it she sent me a picture and i was like wow that's really cool like that is the same space and that is what it would look like with furniture in there so

it's a great way to help out along your furnishing process and so you can do that on fiverr or upwork or i'm sure there's some other sites available if you just search 3d staging online you're going to find some options now one that came up that is really cool i think because you can get this 3d help but you can also order all of your furniture from the same spot and they don't mark it up and this is modzi or maybe it's modesy i'm not exactly

sure how it's pronounced but it does look very helpful i haven't used it personally myself but i'm looking forward to checking it out and using it and so they've got some great options on there basically you can hire your own interior designer to work with your space virtually for as little as like 150 bucks at the time of this recording and they can help you design the space with that actual furniture that you're going to use and then you can order that furniture right through there

and they work with over 100 different furniture outlets like wayfair and pottery barn and they don't mark up the furniture so it's going to save you time for sure and it can save you a lot of money if we're working if we want to work with a traditional professional interior designer that can be quite pricey of course we set budgets for all these things but they have to go out to your space a lot of times they'll you know maybe want to work with more custom

furniture so it can definitely add up of course you set your own budget for things like that but it's definitely going to take longer right versus sending some pictures sending your floor plan and getting someone online to give you pretty immediate help and professional help so check out modzie or modesi.com and one thing before we jump to the next option i just want to remind you that as you're working with one of these designers remember this is a short-term rental right this is an investment property

unless you're spending a whole bunch of time in it yourself you want to make sure that it's best designed for your guests for your guest avatar we've talked about that before that's the person that's going to be staying in your property so make sure it's designed for them and not for you you know if it's a uh if it's someone coming in for work you want to make sure that you have a workspace there for sure a desk maybe even a microphone super fast wi-fi and

maybe a little bit more of a modern type of feel right so make sure you know who's staying at your property if they're families with little kids then you're very likely going to have different furniture than you would for a solo business traveler right so remember that when you're working with one of these professional designers keep that in mind now the next option for sourcing your furniture really easily and being able to view sort of a 3d uh type of model is with amazon showroom yeah

the big big amazon they uh they have their own option now now it's not quite as developed as modsi where you're actually gonna be uh working with your own space you know that you've uploaded and uh monty also has an app that you can use to scan your space as well i believe so um but yeah with amazon you can at least view like a living room for example or you can view a bathroom and you can view the furniture and how it's laid out so

maybe you have a clock on the wall for example you say ah you know what i don't really like how that clock looks with this paint color you can easily change paint colors on there well then you can remove the clock and you can choose from another available option from amazon and put it on there and you can design the whole space and then order everything at the same time so that makes it pretty easy i used to order a ton of stuff on amazon i

still do but i do like to get a little bit of local kind of flare going on there you know maybe not uh tied specifically to the the local city but something that doesn't seem brand new like amazon or ikea just to to make it feel a little more cozy so i do like to mix that in maybe 20 or so of the furniture so it doesn't feel like you opened an ikea box and and your guests are gonna know too if especially if they stay

in in several short-term rentals or they stay in short-term rentals often so check out modzie check out amazon showroom check out fiverr upwork if you want to get an idea of a 3d space in your property or maybe you're just thinking about redoing a space it's already furnished and you're like you know what i think uh it's time for a redo i want to get a new couch want to change the paint color want to do all these things well that's good to check it out

with a 3d model take those things into consideration i think we're just going to keep having more and more cool tools to be able to manage our properties remotely to to do all of these things remotely and get really good information so i'm excited about short-term rentals as i have been for a long time i hope your journey is going well and until next time i hope you have a wonderful wonderful day if you're looking for a ton of free resources well you can check out

the links in the show notes or head to our website restmethods.com where you'll find free guides house rules and my ebook on finding the best short-term rental properties thanks for tuning in