Furnished Finder reviews split in two, and the split tells you most of what you need. The app holds 4.6 out of 5 from about 31,000 ratings on the App Store, most of them from traveling nurses and other renters who find housing there. Trustpilot shows 1.6 out of 5, and the one-star reviews are mostly landlords who were charged $199 again when the listing renewed. This review works from Furnished Finder's own help center and landlord pages, read for this piece, then reads the pattern in what landlords write. We sell rental listings, not furnished housing, so we have no stake in whether you list there.
If what you need this month is to fill a unit between contracts, you can list the vacancy on RentPlace for $39 a month and stop paying once it is rented, or score the ad you already have in the Listing Grader first.
The short verdict
Furnished Finder is worth $199 a year for a landlord with a furnished unit near a hospital, a military base or a corporate campus who wants tenants for 30 days to several months and is ready to screen them, sign the lease and collect rent without help. It is a listing board with an audience, not a property manager, and it keeps none of your rent. It is the wrong buy for an unfurnished 12-month rental, for a market with no monthly demand, and for anyone who will not put the renewal date in a calendar the day they pay.
How much does Furnished Finder cost landlords?
Furnished Finder costs a landlord $199 a year per listing, with no commission on the rent. A second unit at the same address, such as the other side of a duplex or an ADU, is $149 a year. Hotels and apartment complexes pay a flat building rate.
| Item | Amount | Paid by |
|---|---|---|
| Listing, entire place or private room | $199 a year per property | Landlord |
| Extra unit at the same address | $149 a year each | Landlord |
| Hotel or apartment complex | $750 a year, $1,000 from October 27, 2026 | Landlord |
| Listing setup service | $99 once, optional | Landlord |
| Commission or booking fee | None | Nobody |
| Tenant screening (TransUnion) | $44.99 | Tenant |
| Renewal | Automatic every year at the listing price | Landlord |
Properties at different addresses are separate $199 listings, so three single-family homes cost $597 a year. The building rate beats per-unit pricing from the fifth unit at one address today and from the seventh once it rises to $1,000. The arithmetic for a duplex, an ADU or a small building is laid out on our Furnished Finder fees page.
How Furnished Finder works for landlords
You pay, build the listing with photos, a monthly rate and an availability calendar, and the listing goes live to renters searching for furnished stays of 30 days or longer. Furnished Finder says it has more than 300,000 listings and serves over 6 million travelers a year. Renters message you through the site, and from there the rental is yours to run: you screen the applicant, sign a lease, take the deposit and collect the rent.
The platform sells optional tools for each of those steps: TransUnion screening the tenant pays for, a state-specific digital lease, online rent payments, a damage protection plan and landlord insurance through a partner. None of them is required, and none of them takes a share of the rent. That is the deal in one line. You do the work a property manager would do, and you keep the 10% a manager would charge.
Is Furnished Finder legit?
Yes. Furnished Finder is a real company based in Austin, Texas, operating since 2014, and it is one of the largest US marketplaces for monthly furnished rentals, with a strong following among traveling nurses. The legitimacy question landlords should ask is narrower: whether your listing will draw enough real inquiries in your market to be worth $199, and whether you can tell a real traveler from a scammer. The platform does not guarantee bookings, and it says so.
Scam inquiries are the risk landlords mention most after billing. The patterns are the usual ones: a renter who will not talk by phone, wants to pay more than asked, or sends a check and asks for the difference back. Run screening, take the first payment before you hand over keys, and never refund an overpayment.
What Furnished Finder reviews praise
Landlords who are happy with Furnished Finder say the same three things. The renters are working professionals on contracts, often nurses on 13-week assignments, who keep a place clean and leave on a known date. The flat fee means a unit booked for ten months at $2,400 costs $199 to market instead of the roughly $3,700 a 15.5% commission would take. And the renter relationship is direct, so you set your own rules, deposit and lease.
Several positive Trustpilot reviews name support staff who walked a landlord through relisting or changing a listing by phone, with short hold times. The App Store score is high, but read it with care: it mostly reflects how renters find the search and messaging, not how landlords fare.
What Furnished Finder reviews complain about
The complaint that dominates is the automatic renewal. At signup you acknowledge that the listing renews every year, and the terms say fees are nonrefundable. Landlords who rented the unit elsewhere, or forgot the date, see a second $199 charge and are told no. Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott covered one such case and concluded that the company was within its terms but that refusing a same-day cancellation was poor service.
The second complaint is lead volume. Landlords far from hospitals, bases and job centers report a year with few or no matches, which is the platform's own caveat about thin markets. The third is inquiry quality: messages that go nowhere and the occasional scam. None of these is hidden, and all three are manageable if you know about them before you pay.
| Complaint | How often it appears | What to do before paying |
|---|---|---|
| Charged again on renewal, refund refused | The most common one-star theme | Turn off auto-renew in the dashboard on day one and diary the date |
| Few or no inquiries in a year | Common outside demand areas | Search your ZIP as a renter and count active listings and nearby hospitals |
| Scam or dead-end inquiries | Regular | Screen every applicant and take the first payment before move-in |
| Hard to delete a listing | Occasional | Ask for cancellation in writing and keep the reply |
Is Furnished Finder worth it?
For the right unit, easily. $199 is about two and a half days of vacancy on a $2,400 a month furnished rental, so one booking that starts a week sooner pays for the year several times over. The landlords who praise it most run back-to-back contracts and use it as their main channel for the whole year.
It is not worth it if the unit is unfurnished, if the nearest demand driver is an hour away, or if you will not manage the renewal. It is also less useful in the gap months themselves. A traveler contract ends, the next one starts six weeks later, and that gap is where a second channel earns its keep. Many furnished landlords also take payouts from two or three platforms plus direct transfers, and at tax time it pays to match every platform payout against the bank deposit it landed in rather than trusting each dashboard's totals.
Furnished Finder against Airbnb and Zillow
| Furnished Finder | Airbnb monthly stays | Zillow Rental Manager | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the landlord pays | $199 a year per listing | About 15.5% of each booking, host-only fee | Free to post, $39.99 per premium listing |
| Typical stay | 30 days to several months | Nights to months | 12-month leases, mostly |
| Who screens and signs | You | Airbnb handles payment, you set rules | You, with applicant-paid screening |
| Best for | Furnished units near hospitals, bases and campuses | Units that also take short stays | Unfurnished long-term rentals |
The commission comparison is the strongest argument for Furnished Finder. On a $2,400 unit rented for ten months, Airbnb's host fee would come to around $3,700. Zillow is free to post but its renters mostly want 12-month leases, which is a different product. The cost side of both is on our Zillow Rental Manager cost page.
Who Furnished Finder fits and who it does not
Use Furnished Finder if you own one to a handful of furnished units within a short drive of a hospital, base or employer that brings in contract workers, and you are comfortable running screening, leases and rent yourself. Turn off auto-renew the day you pay and decide each year on purpose.
Look elsewhere if the unit is unfurnished, if you want someone else to run the tenancy, or if local monthly demand is thin. For a 12-month lease the portals and a listing of your own are the better spend.
Whichever you choose, the weeks between tenants are where the money goes. Furnished Finder hands you messages that you sort one by one. On RentPlace a renter answers your move-in date, income band, occupants, pets and lease length before the message can send, and each unit sits on a vacancy board with its days empty beside it. A landlord covering a gap between contracts can list it for $39 a month for up to five listings, stop paying once it is rented, and keep Furnished Finder for the traveler market. If you manage furnished units for owners, our team plans start at $99 a month.