Using Furnished Finder for a City Proof of Concept (POC) — With Katie Lyon
What if you could try on a city — live there for a couple of months, fully furnished, no long lease — before uprooting your whole life? That's the heart of what I call a City Proof of Concept, and Katie Lyon, co-host of The Landlord Diaries and Marketing Director at Furnished Finder, is the perfect guide. We dig into midterm rentals, transparent pricing, and how Furnished Finder's data can help you make one of life's biggest decisions with real information instead of a hunch.
> Mariette Frey is a relocation strategist, life coach, and host of the Moving Tips + Tricks podcast. Every week on Smart Move Monday: Coach Mariette's Corner, she offers free coaching to help listeners move with clarity and confidence. Check out her favorite tools, trusted show sponsors, and more at www.decidingtomove.com. Free spots are limited — coaching roster opens soon!
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## What Is Furnished Finder?
Furnished Finder is a midterm-rental platform that started out serving travel nurses and has since expanded to accommodate all kinds of travelers — remote workers, families in between homes, people undergoing renovations, and yes, movers doing a City POC. The pandemic accelerated the shift toward remote work, and midterm rentals grew right alongside it.
## Why Midterm Rentals Are the POC Sweet Spot
The average stay on Furnished Finder runs around 90 to 110 days — which is almost the perfect length to genuinely test a city. Long enough to move past the honeymoon phase and experience real daily life; short enough that you're not locked into a year lease or a mortgage before you know whether the place is right. Katie explained how the model gives both landlords and travelers flexibility and freedom.
## Transparency and Trust
One thing Katie and I both love: transparent pricing with no hidden fees. The platform lets landlords and tenants communicate directly, build a real relationship, and handle tenant screening and lease agreements openly. That transparency is what makes it a genuinely low-risk way to test the waters somewhere new.
> 💬 The average midterm stay is 90 to 110 days — just long enough to find out whether a city is a vacation crush or your actual next home.
## Use the Data to Decide
Here's the part that turns a nice trip into a smart decision: Furnished Finder's housing request tool and data can power real city and neighborhood analysis. Instead of guessing whether a place fits, you can look at actual demand, pricing, and neighborhood signals — market research that could genuinely change your life for the better.
