Geraldine A.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 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 property per month. 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. Airbnb is furnished short-term. Sonder is furnished hotel-style apartments. Traditional rentals are unfurnished and built for a year. Mid-term corporate housing platforms 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.