Every owner with a spare property faces the same three doors: sell it, lease it to a year-round tenant, or run it furnished. Anyone who tells you one answer fits everybody is selling that answer.
Selling is right when you need the equity now or the property needs more than it will ever return. It’s a clean exit — and a permanent one, in a city where values and rental demand have been moving the right direction.
A traditional lease is right when you want maximum predictability and minimum involvement: one tenant, one rent check, twelve months. The trade is a lower ceiling — market rent is market rent — plus real vacancy and turnover risk when tenants change, and an unfurnished home earning at the bottom of its range.
Furnished rental — short stays, monthly stays, or a seasonal mix — is right when you want the property to earn what it’s actually capable of and you have an operator handling the work. The trade is variability: great months and quiet ones, managed by strategy rather than eliminated.
The honest move is running your real numbers through all three doors before picking one. We’ll do that with you — and if the answer for your property is “keep the tenant” or even “sell it,” we’ll say so. We’d rather be trusted than hired.
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