I can tell you when we bought, my wife had 1 year to retire and we had to amke a decison to have a vacant house for a year and use it as a transition home or to furnish it with rental furniture and rent it out.
The initial cost to furnish a home you are going to rent is not cheap and as was previously said it is a leger item no personal atachment. However the bigger issue for us is that this was to be our retirement home and we both wanted it to be a new home for us and this was more imporant to us rather than furnishing a rental home, renting it out for a couple of months at best, having to deal with florida and federal taxes for rental property. WEll what we expected to be a 12 month transition turned out to be close to a 20 month transition for we could not sell us north BUT we were certainly glad when we finally did move to move into a "NEW" home.
Personal choice, personal decision in all respects!!
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