Dear mit602,
I’m sorry to hear that your mom will require your care for such a
lengthy period. I hope everything will work out all right. You’re
right, it would certainly relieve you of a lot of stress if you didn’t
have to worry about making your mortgage payment while you’re gone.
As I’m sure you know, there are many people in all parts of the
country looking for a nice short-term lease such as you have to offer.
Students and visitors of all kinds can be in need of nice temporary
housing, in addition to those who might have some kind of damage to or
work being done on their house, or perhaps who have sold one house and
can’t yet move into their new one, people relocating for work, and
those working on contract or for many other reasons. The trick is
finding reliable and trustworthy people to be your short-term tenants.
For starters, check out http://www.shorttermplaces.com/ This is a
nationwide site that specializes in helping people find housing for
periods of from one to nine months. Email them at
info@shorttermplaces.com to inquire about their terms and listing your
house. Another service is Nationwide Network Housing at
http://www.nnhousing.com/ , and you might also check out For
Rent.com’s owners page at http://www.forrent.com/listyourprop.asp .
Another place to try would be real estate companies in your area. You
could begin with the Century 21 Realty Office(s) in your town. This
real estate company frequently handles property management as well as
sales, and is often the first place relocators and others contact when
looking for this type of arrangement. Their main website is
http://www.century21.com , and allows you to select any city, state,
zip, etc. and ask a question.
Also try other real estate agents. If you don’t want to make a lot of
phone calls, browse the real estate listings in your yellow pages for
ads with emails or websites, then shoot off a message asking if they’d
be interested in your property on a short-term lease. You might also
try RealtyDirectory.com at http://www.realtydirectory.com/ , and
inquire about listing your house. They have a section for rentals
with 138 nationwide brokers listed.
Here’s a service that provides temporary housing listings to the
insurance industry nationwide :
http://crstemphousing.com/clientlist.html . Email them at
info@crstemphousing.com .
I’d suggest not giving up on the corporate housing market, since this
is a fairly large share of those looking for temporary housing, and
most of the larger companies do offer private homes as well as condos
and apartments. One of the larger national companies serving this
market is Aim Relocation Services at http://www.realtydirectory.com/ .
Their contact page is here: http://www.aimrelocation.com/contact.html
. Another nationwide service is http://www.corporatehousing.com/ ,
or go here to find out how to list your property with them:
http://www.corporatehousing.com/listyourprop.asp .
Yet another is Preferred Corporate Suites at http://www.pcsuites.com ,
and you might also check out http://www.theeaglenetwork.com/.
Do use Google Search and/or Advanced Search, using the following
terms, in order to find additional companies that may specialize in
your particular geographical area. Even these general searches
returned a large number of geographically specific companies, so by
adding your city or metro area to the search, you should be able to
come up with quite a few.
Short term lease house
Rent nationwide short term
Nationwide short term lease house
Nationwide temporary housing
Temporary housing
I hope this information is of help to you.
Kindest regards,
Byrd |
Clarification of Answer by
byrd-ga
on
11 Oct 2002 12:51 PDT
Thanks, your clarification helps me understand better what you're
looking for. Here are a few more resources that I hope might work for
you.
To begin with, FEMA has a website here
http://www.fema.gov/diz99/d1266n12.shtm , where they are seeking
temporary housing for people displaced by natural disasters. Given
the severity of the flooding in Central Texas in July, there might
still be quite a few people who'd fit this profile. Along the same
lines, another place to check could be the Austin Red Cross at
http://www.redcrossaustin.org/contactus.html
Here's a list of Traveling Nurse agencies, many of which also offer
temporary housing in addition to jobs:
http://dmoz.org/Health/Nursing/Employment/
In the line of healthcare, another possibility might be offering a
temporary solution to families in need of housing while undergoing
some kind of treatment. The American Cancer Society is one such
organization that tries to help patients find temporary housing:
http://www.acs-tx.org/local/Austin.nsf/pages/ZPatientServices
Another possibility is domestic violence victims in need of safe
temporary housing. You might check out the Texas Council on Family
Violence located at
8701 North Mopac Expressway, Suite 450 Austin, TX 78759 Phone: (512)
794-1133
URL: http://www.cpn.org/sections/topics/family-intergen/index.html
You could also try the Women's Counseling and Resource Center at (512)
326-1222; Safe Place (formerly Austin Battered Women's Shelter) at
www.austin-safeplace.org (512) 267-7233; The Family Crisis Center
http://www.family-crisis-center.org/safehousingproj.html , toll-free
phone 1-888-311-7755; and Williamson County's Bluebonnet Trails MHMR
Community Center at
www.bluebonnetmhmr.org .
I’ll keep searching for additional resources for you, and will post if
I come up with anything additional. I do hope you might find some of
these useful.
Additional search terms I used were:
seeking temporary housing
short term shelter
workers need temporary housing
temporary housing needs
short term rentals
Wishing you luck,
Byrd
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