Excellent questions Gracie. I have furnished 3 homes in TV. Our personal home and two rental homes. We bought from many sources. Bargains and Treasures, Craig's List, private sales, and a few new pieces. We did two U-haul trucks and a trailer plus several pick up truck loads as it was easier to buy in Virginia then Florida. And I mean LOADS. We looked like the Beverly Hill Billy's driving South. I keep very accurate information on the rental homes and a good estimate for our home. Total complete everything for the rentals was about $6,000 each and that included new mattress's and box springs and HD TV's. Golf carts were on top of that. Our home was a little more. We have added a few pieces here and there to each home. Here are pictures for the rental homes.
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Next will come a major challenge. What to do with everything when we sell our VA home next year. Not to much furniture will come with us, but a few pieces. However lots of tools, craft stuff, and kitchen stuff. Guess we will have a big garage sale once we become frogs. Have to have two, one in VA and one in FL. Either that or we will have to buy another home.