Corporate Mid-Term Rentals — 60–180 Day Housing | FUF

Corporate relocation managers, mobility partners, and HR teams place employees on multi-month assignments every week. The placement window most often runs 60 to 180 days. The available housing options in that window are structurally bad.

Vacation rental platforms cap economically at about 30 nights. Past 30 nights, the per-night rates drop into reasonable territory but the listings were not designed for someone unpacking a suitcase and working from the kitchen counter for five months. The amenity mix is off. The host expects turnover.

Traditional 12-month leases solve the duration problem and break the timing problem. The employee is on a 90-day project. The lease asks for a 12-month commitment, a credit check, a security deposit sized for a year, and a wet signature on a long document. Most relocation managers know what happens next: either the company underwrites a lease the employee will never use the back half of, or the placement ends up in a corporate apartment block at twice the rate of comparable inventory.

The 60-to-180-day window is the underserved middle. It is also the window where most corporate relocations actually live.

What is corporate housing, and how is a mid-term rental different?

Corporate housing is a furnished unit sold as a managed service, usually by an operator that holds the lease, furnishes to a standard spec, bundles utilities and cleaning, and bills the employer a single all-in monthly rate. It is convenient and it is expensive, because the operator's margin sits on top of the underlying rent.

A mid-term rental is the same length of stay bought a different way. The employee leases directly from the property owner at the owner's rate. Furnishing, utilities, and terms are whatever that listing offers and whatever the two parties agree to, which means the range is wider in both directions: you can find something better than a corporate apartment for less, and you can find something that doesn't fit at all. The verification layer is what narrows that range to inventory worth sending an employee to.

Neither model is wrong. Corporate housing is the right answer when a company wants one invoice, one vendor, and no variability. Mid-term rentals are the right answer when the assignment is 60 to 180 days, the budget is real, and the employee would rather live in a neighborhood than an inventory block. Most mobility programs end up running both. Our corporate relocation housing overview covers where each one fits.

What Furnished Unfurnished does for HR mobility teams

The marketplace gives you verified inventory you can search by city, dates, bedrooms, and pet policy. Every listing has been reviewed by a human before going live. Photos match the property. Descriptions match the listing. The landlord has been verified as the owner of record or the authorized property manager.

You can hand a 90-day placement to the marketplace without ten back-and-forth emails on whether the photos are real. You can match the assignment duration to the unit availability without forcing a 12-month commitment your employee will not use. You can keep your existing vendor relationships for the placements those vendors handle and use the marketplace for the placements that fall into the gap.

The pricing is flat. Landlords pay $9.99 per listing per month, or $79.99 per year. The lease and the payment happen between the landlord and your employee directly. There are no booking fees. There is no service fee on your side as the buyer. Furnished Unfurnished does not take a percentage of the placement. The flat subscription is the entire commercial relationship between the landlord and the marketplace.

Furnished or unfurnished, the employee chooses

Most platforms force a category. Vacation-rental sites are furnished and priced by the night. Serviced-apartment operators are furnished, hotel-style, and priced to match. Traditional rentals are unfurnished and built for a year. Mid-term corporate housing providers typically lock you into one model.

Furnished Unfurnished is the brand name and the operating model. The tenant chooses. Two doors to the same building can show up in your inventory search, one furnished and ready for a Tuesday move-in, one unfurnished and configured for an employee bringing their own things on a longer assignment. The choice is on the employee, not on the platform category decision.

For HR mobility teams, that flexibility translates into briefs that do not need to over-specify. You do not need to know in advance whether the employee wants furnished or unfurnished. The marketplace shows both.

Direct landlord-to-tenant connection

The lease happens between the landlord and your employee. The marketplace introduces them. The payment runs between them. The platform does not insert itself into the contract.

For HR teams, this matters because it removes the third party from the middle of the lease. The employee signs with the property owner, not with a platform. The lease terms are negotiable directly. The duration matches the assignment. If the assignment is extended, the lease extension happens between the two parties without a platform fee for the modification.

The marketplace verifies inventory, surfaces it, makes it searchable, and steps out of the way.

Coverage by region

Furnished Unfurnished is a national US marketplace. Coverage is deepest in Phoenix, Tampa, and Iowa City where our operating team has direct inventory and longstanding placement history. Beyond those, listings are live and growing in every market that drives the bulk of corporate-relocation placements. Here is what to expect by region.

Northeast

New York and Boston are the two highest-demand Northeast markets for 60-to-180-day placements. In New York, mid-term inventory thinned hard after Local Law 18 disqualified compliant short-term supply; verified mid-term rentals are now an important fallback for HR teams placing project employees into Manhattan and the outer-borough financial corridors. Boston demand concentrates around Cambridge for tech and biotech relocations and around the Longwood medical area for healthcare-system placements. Washington DC carries steady federal-contractor flow into Foggy Bottom, Capitol Hill, and the Pentagon corridor.

Pacific

San Francisco and Seattle are the volume cities for west-coast tech relocation. San Francisco's cost differential against secondary markets means many companies pilot a relocation as a 90-to-180-day stay before committing the employee to a permanent move; the marketplace is built for that pilot window. Seattle relocation demand concentrates in Capitol Hill, South Lake Union, and Bellevue. Los Angeles entertainment-industry production keeps mid-term housing in steady demand across West LA, the Valley, and the Westside.

Sunbelt

Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta carry corporate-relocation volume on a steadier curve than coastal markets. Texas has no state income tax, which makes it a frequent destination for relocations that companies want to make stick. Phoenix is our home base with the deepest inventory in the network. Tampa serves federal placement work near MacDill and growing corporate flow into the downtown and Westshore corridors.

Midwest

Chicago carries corporate-relo and locum-physician volume across the medical districts and the Loop. Iowa City has been part of our federal and ALE operating practice for years. Indianapolis and Minneapolis are growing.

For secondary markets like Denver, Portland, Raleigh, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, or Nashville, the marketplace has inventory in each as of launch with depth varying by city. For cities where your placement work is concentrated and coverage is still growing, send a request through partners@furnishedunfurnished.com and we will help backfill quickly.

How to use the marketplace for corporate placements

Step one: search verified listings by city, move-in date, length of stay, bedrooms, and pet policy. Filter to your assignment specifics.

Step two: send a placement inquiry directly to the landlord. The marketplace handles the introduction. The landlord typically responds within the same business day.

Step three: arrange the lease between the landlord and the employee. The marketplace does not insert itself into the lease or the payment. The terms are negotiated directly. The signing happens directly.

Step four: pay the landlord directly per the lease. No booking fee, no service fee from the marketplace.

If the placement is already defined and you would rather have matches come to you, post the housing request and landlords respond to it. For HR teams placing volume that warrants a different workflow, contact partners@furnishedunfurnished.com to schedule a 15-minute conversation. We accommodate vendor agreements, SLA-driven engagements, and audit-ready documentation for the placements that need it.

A note on what we are not

Furnished Unfurnished is not a corporate housing chain. We are not a hotel pretending to be an apartment. We are not an aggregator selling lead fees on inventory we have not verified. We do not take a percentage of the lease.

We are the verified mid-term rental marketplace built for the 30-to-365-day window. For corporate relocation managers placing employees on 60-to-180-day assignments, that is the window you live in.

Built for the month, not the night.

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