Moving abroad is stressful enough without having to think about furniture, which is why it has become the norm for expats to either eat the costs of buying furniture, or limit their housing options to serviced apartments. Now the first furniture rental service in Thailand, Pacific Orientation is literally opening up thousands of new doors and housing options for expats all over the nation. Here are ten things to consider about renting:
1. Have more flexibility to live exactly where you want, even if the apartment you love most doesn’t come with furniture.
2. Enjoy using nicer furniture than you could have afforded if you had bought.
3. Save yourself the time and trouble to go shopping for new furniture when you have a million other things to do.
4. If you’ve already shipped your furniture to your new home, you don’t have to live in furniture-less apartment while you wait for it to arrive. You can rent for the meantime and won’t have to lift a finger.
5. Avoid the typically hefty sunken costs of shipping furniture. Enough said.
6. It’s more than furniture. You can rent everything from quality pots and pans, to cleaning supplies to a welcome basket with household necessities like toilet paper or shampoo.
7. Arrange pre-delivery to start living in your new place the minute you walk in.
8. Forget worrying about depreciation of your furniture. The company you rent it from will take it back whenever you stop needing it.
9. Take advantage of flexible rental terms. You can easily rent from one month to five years.
10. It’s ok if you don’t like what you selected. With rentals, you can test out any item from the large range of high quality furniture available at any time.