Furniture Rental Pricing and Costs

Furniture rental and leasing can have a positive effect on your bottom line

While rental furniture companies make it easy to rent furniture for your office or business, you have to be on your toes when it comes to furniture rental pricing and costs to make sure you get the best deal available. Whether you choose business pieces from a company that specializes in residential furniture rental or one that caters entirely to business furniture rentals, you must know what you get for your money and what hidden costs may be lurking in the invoice.

As with any business project, you must work to keep your rental furniture costs within your budget. Before you begin renting furniture, you should know exactly how much you can afford to pay. You should also prepare a list of questions before you even visit your local furniture rental business. They are:

1. What is the price range on available pieces of office furniture rental equipment?

2. Who pays the cost of any ongoing maintenance on the furniture rentals?

3. Are there comparable used pieces of rental furniture available at a reduced lease price?

 

Furnish your office with workstations provided by a furniture rental businesses

If you need rental furniture, one of your first concerns is probably making sure your employees have a space where they can work efficiently. Renting office furniture workstations and cubicles is rather affordable. With little or no money down, you can find basic three-sided stations for as cheap as $20 a month. More elaborate cubicles with four sides, high walls and larger desks run up to $70 a month.
Try: National Office Liquidators provides furniture rental and leasing, and has a rent-to-own program. By paying anywhere from $100 to around $200 down, you can own the furniture after a year of monthly payments. Clone Cubicle also has a program that allows you to buy the cubicle at the end of your lease, either for a $1 closeout or fair market value. Its cubicles start as low as $20 a month.

Look at office furniture rental options for chairs, conference tables and more

You can use an office furniture rental agency to furnish your entire office space, from the couch in the reception area, right down to the art on the walls. Getting all the furnishings you need to lease on one rental furniture contract is probably the way to go. You'll save money on delivery and installation, and even moving expenses and the cost of disposing of the furniture when the time comes.
Try: CORT, a furniture rental company, has a number of affordable conference tables that cost as little as $20 a month for cherry wood, and around $30 for mahogany pieces. Its chairs start at under $20 for a standard plush number on wheels, up to almost $80 a month for an ergonomic executive model. The Strong Project is a contemporary furniture manufacturer that leases expensive pieces to start-ups.

Shop around for the best rental furniture deal

There are some furniture rental companies that provide the furniture themselves, like CORT and Clone Cubicle discussed above. There are furniture manufacturers that offer leasing as just one of their financing options. In addition, there are also third party lessors who work with you to finance furniture from an outside vendor. You have plenty of options, so shop around for the best furniture rental pricing and costs.
Try: Capital Funds Leasing will finance up to $5 million worth of office furnishings for qualified customers, with two months worth of payments are due at the signing. Barclay Associates sets new businesses up with leases worth as much as $49,000 for business owners whose credit score is at least 640. The Harris Leasing Company finances as much as $250,000 in equipment and furniture, and lets customers pay it back over up to 60 months.

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