Travel nursing, locum tenens, and allied health placements run on contracts measured in weeks. The standard travel-nurse contract is 13 weeks. Locum physician rotations range from 4 weeks to 12 months. Allied health professionals (radiology technologists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, surgical technologists, perfusionists, sonographers) often work the same calendar.
The housing problem these professionals face is structural. Hotels are too expensive for 13 weeks. Long-term leases require 12 months of commitment with credit checks calibrated for a year. Travel-nurse boards do not verify the listings they aggregate. Vacation rental platforms cap economically at about 30 nights.
A 13-week travel nurse rental is a verified mid-term lease matching the standard travel-nurse contract length. The 13-week to 12-month assignment is the underserved middle. Furnished Unfurnished is the verified marketplace built for that window.
What changes when the marketplace verifies the listing
Most travel-nurse housing boards do not verify listings, and neither do most vacation rental platforms. The marketplaces that aggregate travel-nurse housing pull photos from one property and use them on another with surprising regularity. Travel nurses on tight credentialing timelines have weeks, not months, to find housing. Showing up to a sublet that does not match its photos is a credentialing-timeline crisis.
Furnished Unfurnished verifies every listing before it goes live. A human reviews the photos against the property address. Descriptions are checked against zoning and permit records. Landlords are verified as the owner of record or the authorized property manager. Reviews take one business day.
When you search the marketplace by city and date, the listings you see have all cleared that verification bar. The photos match the property. The address is what the landlord says it is. The amenities listed are the amenities present.
No booking fees on a stipend-tight assignment
Travel nurses, locum physicians, and allied health professionals typically receive a housing stipend as part of their assignment compensation. The stipend is calibrated to local market rates and does not leave much room for platform booking fees.
Furnished Unfurnished does not charge booking fees on either side. The landlord pays $9.99 per property per month as a flat subscription. The tenant pays nothing to the marketplace. The lease and the payment run between the landlord and the tenant directly, off the platform.
That math matters when your stipend has to cover housing, utilities, and the predictable monthly costs of being away from home. Every dollar that does not go to a platform fee is a dollar that can go to the rent the landlord is willing to take, or to your daily expenses.
Furnished or unfurnished, your choice
Most travel-nurse housing platforms force furnished. The assumption is that you arrive with a suitcase and no furniture. That assumption is correct for many 13-week assignments and wrong for the longer ones.
Furnished Unfurnished lets the tenant choose. If you are on a 13-week placement, search for furnished and skip the moving truck. If you are on a 26-week or year-long rotation and you are bringing your own bed and dresser, search for unfurnished and configure the unit yourself.
The brand name is the operating model. The marketplace does not categorize the unit for you. The landlord posts the unit as furnished or unfurnished, and you choose what fits your assignment.
Direct landlord-to-tenant lease
The lease happens between the landlord and the tenant. The marketplace introduces you. The payment runs between you and the landlord directly. The platform does not insert itself into the contract.
That direct connection matters for a few specific reasons. Lease terms can be negotiated to match your contract length precisely. If your assignment is extended by 4 weeks, you extend with the landlord directly without a platform fee. If your credentialing arrives a week late, the move-in date can be adjusted with the landlord directly without a platform reschedule fee.
The marketplace does the verification work and steps out of the way.
Coverage near major hospital systems
Furnished Unfurnished is a national US marketplace. Coverage is deepest in Phoenix and across Arizona, in Tampa, Florida, and in Iowa City, Iowa, where our operating team places medical and government tenants directly. Beyond those, here is what is live near the hospital systems travel nurses and locum physicians search by name.
Florida Gulf Coast — Tampa General and USF Health
Tampa General Hospital and USF Health anchor a steady year-round demand curve. Inventory concentrates in Hyde Park, Davis Islands, and the corridor along Bayshore Boulevard. Florida hurricane season runs June through November, and mid-term inventory tightens in the weeks leading up to landfall as ALE displacement compounds with travel-nurse arrivals.
Texas — Texas Medical Center, Baylor, UT Southwestern
Houston''s Texas Medical Center is the single largest medical complex in the world, drawing 13-week travel-nurse placements into MD Anderson, Houston Methodist, and Memorial Hermann year-round. Inventory concentrates in the Museum District and Rice Village. Dallas demand splits between UT Southwestern Medical Center, Baylor Scott & White, and Children''s Health, with inventory across Uptown and Oak Lawn.
Northeast — Longwood Medical Area, Mass General, Mount Sinai
Boston''s Longwood medical area is one of the densest hospital clusters in the country: Brigham and Women''s, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Children''s, and Dana-Farber sit within walking distance of each other. Travel nurses on Boston placements typically search "rentals near Longwood" or "rentals near Mass General" first. Mass General sits across the river in the West End. New York demand spans Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side, NewYork-Presbyterian in Washington Heights, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering footprint in Midtown East.
Midwest — Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, University of Iowa Hospitals
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota draws locum physician rotations from across the country; nearby Twin Cities inventory carries the overflow. Cleveland Clinic anchors mid-term demand across University Circle and Tremont. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has been part of our federal and ALE operating practice for years.
Pacific — UCSF, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, Harborview, OHSU
San Francisco demand concentrates around UCSF Mission Bay and Parnassus. Los Angeles mid-term inventory near UCLA Westwood and Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Grove carries entertainment-industry production overflow alongside the medical demand. Seattle''s Harborview and the University of Washington Medical Center anchor demand on First Hill and Capitol Hill. Portland''s OHSU sits on Marquam Hill.
Sunbelt — Banner, HonorHealth, Mayo Phoenix
Phoenix is our home base, with deep inventory across the Camelback Corridor and the East Valley. Demand peaks in the summer when ALE displacement from monsoon storms compounds with travel-nurse arrivals at Banner Health, HonorHealth, and Mayo Clinic Phoenix. Atlanta''s Emory and Grady draw steady locum physician demand across the perimeter.
Coverage in secondary markets near Birmingham, Charleston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, and St. Louis is growing as landlords subscribe and listings clear verification.
How to search the marketplace
Step one: visit furnishedunfurnished.com and enter the city of your assignment, your contract start date, your expected length of stay, and bedrooms.
Step two: filter for furnished or unfurnished based on what fits your assignment.
Step three: review the listings. Every photo has been checked against the property. Every description has been reviewed.
Step four: send a placement inquiry to the landlord directly. The landlord typically responds within the same business day.
Step five: arrange the lease and the payment with the landlord directly. The terms are between you and the property owner.
A note for staffing agencies and credentialing teams
If you are a travel-nurse staffing agency, a locum tenens placement firm, or a credentialing team placing medical professionals across multiple cities, the marketplace can serve as your verified inventory layer. You continue your existing workflow. The marketplace gives you searchable, verified housing inventory across the cities your professionals are placed.
For staffing partnerships, contact partners@furnishedunfurnished.com to schedule a 15-minute conversation. We accommodate volume placement workflows, SLA agreements, and the documentation requirements that come with institutional placement work.
What we are not
Furnished Unfurnished is not a travel-nurse housing board. We do not aggregate unverified listings. We are not a lead-fee broker selling phone numbers to landlords. We do not take a percentage of your stay.
We are the verified mid-term rental marketplace built for the 30-to-365-day window. For travel nurses on 13-week assignments and the medical professionals who work the same calendar, that is the window you live in.
Built for the month, not the night.
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