Plain reading for the people we host.

How the guides on this page are organized

Twenty guides sit behind the categories at the top of this page, and each one was written for one specific kind of trip. Corporate, Insurance & ALE, Medical Stays, Relocation, Remote Work, Seasonal, Sports Travel, Students, Family Travel, Groups, Events and Travel Healthcare each cover a real situation: a contract, a repair, an admission, a move, a season, a tournament, a reunion, a game weekend. The category labeled Guides holds the general-purpose pieces: what a furnished home includes, how the first week goes, how to bring a pet along.

Those same categories map onto the three groups the rest of the site uses to sort guests, on our who we host page. Travel Nurse & Medical, Corporate & Business, Government & Per-Diem, Contractors & Work Crews and Remote Workers are here to work. Relocation & Long-Stay, Insurance & Displacement, Patients & Families Near the Hospitals, Students, Interns & Residents and Snowbirds & Seasonal Stays are between homes. Family Vacations, Groups & Reunions, Sports Teams & Tournaments and Game Days, Concerts & Weekends are here to play. A guide gives you the reasoning and the practical steps; its matching page gives you the homes, the drive times and the billing terms built for that exact situation.

Read a guide start to finish, or skip straight to the page for your own category. Both roads lead to the same thirteen homes and the same phone number, so neither is the wrong way in. A guide tends to run longer and slower, working through a whole decision the way a friend who has done this before would explain it. Its matching category page is shorter and more direct: the homes, the drive times to what matters for that trip, and how billing works for that kind of guest, without the background reading.

Where the thirteen homes actually sit

Reading a guide is easier once you know the map. The thirteen homes sit across nine Orlando neighborhoods in three parts of the city. Two are in Downtown Orlando: the Amelia House in Parramore and the 25th Street House in Holden Heights. Six are in Northwest Orlando: the Head Avenue, Entertainment, Londonderry and Cozy Houses in Pine Hills, the Katherine House between Lockhart and Rosemont, and the Wekiwa House in Hiawassee. Four are in West Orlando: the Piedmont, Dollins and Sunset Lake Houses in Washington Shores, and the Meet & Play House in Malibu Groves. A ninth neighborhood, College Park, has no home of its own but sits close to several of ours, and a few guides mention its restaurants and coffee shops along the way.

A guide written for a hospital assignment or a downtown event weekend usually points to the Downtown Orlando pair. A guide about a reunion, a work crew or a season spent in a quiet neighborhood usually points toward Northwest or West Orlando. The Piedmont House in Washington Shores is one reason: it has a parking pad that fits several vehicles, useful for a work crew or a reunion group that shows up in more than one car. If a guide names a home you haven't looked at yet, its own neighborhood page lists the drive times and what sits nearby. The Orlando hub organizes the same thirteen homes by geography instead of by guest type, which is worth a look if you already know the part of the city you want and would rather work backward from the map than from a guide.

Comparing bedrooms, bathrooms and sleeping capacity

Most guides on this page eventually point you toward two or three homes, and the table below lines up all thirteen at a glance. The counts are exactly as published in each home's own listing, and a sofa is never counted as a bed.

Counts as published in each home's own listing; sofas are not counted as beds.

The range runs from the two-bedroom, two-bathroom Wekiwa House, which sleeps six, up to the six-bedroom, three-bathroom Head Avenue House, which sleeps fifteen, the largest sleep count in the portfolio. Bathrooms vary too: most homes have one or two, the Head Avenue and Piedmont Houses each have three, and the Londonderry House has one and a half. Sleeping eight is the most common number in the portfolio: the Amelia, Katherine, Londonderry, Sunset Lake and Cozy Houses all sleep eight, which is why a guide aimed at a small family or a pair of colleagues can point to any of five different homes rather than one.

Six of the thirteen homes, the Amelia, Head Avenue, Piedmont, Dollins, Katherine and 25th Street Houses, publish a street address on the site. The other six, the Meet & Play, Entertainment, Londonderry, Sunset Lake, Cozy and Wekiwa Houses, publish only the neighborhood and zip code, with the exact address shared once you book. Both groups are the same kind of furnished house; several guides mention one or the other by name, and it comes down to a publishing choice about the listing.

Which guide fits which trip

A guide is only useful if it points at a home that could actually work for you, so here is how the range plays out at both ends. The Wekiwa House, the smallest home in the portfolio, suits a single traveler or a couple: a remote worker on a month in Orlando, a solo per-diem contractor, or one nurse on a contract. The Amelia House, four bedrooms and close to the downtown hospitals, is the one our medical-stay and downtown-work guides name most often. The Head Avenue House, six bedrooms, is what the reunion, sports-team and work-crew guides point to first.

Downtown Orlando

Parramore / Downtown Edge

Amelia’s Arena Retreat

4 bd 2 ba Sleeps 8

7 min downtown · 9 min ORMC · 16 min Universal

Travel Nurse & MedicalInsurance & Displacement

West Orlando

Hiawassee

Wekiwa Home

2 bd 2 ba Sleeps 6

17 min downtown · 16 min AdventHealth · 19 min Universal

Travel Nurse & MedicalRemote Workers & Digital Nomads

Northwest Orlando

Pine Hills / Rosemont

The Clue House

6 bd 3 ba Sleeps 15

11 min downtown · 12 min ORMC · 14 min Universal

Travel Nurse & MedicalInsurance & Displacement

Between those two ends, most of the portfolio sleeps eight to eleven, which covers a family, a couple of colleagues on the same assignment, or a small crew comfortably. If a guide's example household is bigger or smaller than yours, treat it as an illustration rather than a rule: a house that sleeps eight suits two people who want the extra room just as well as it suits a family of five. Tell us the headcount and the dates and we will match you to a home ourselves. Guides for a park trip or a summer internship usually sit in the middle of the range: the Meet & Play House sleeps nine, the 25th Street House sleeps ten, and the Entertainment House sleeps eleven, all comfortable for a family with a few kids or three or four housemates splitting one lease.

What's already in the house before you read a single guide

Several guides on this page walk through what a furnished monthly rental includes in real detail; here is the short version so the rest of what you read makes sense. Every one of the thirteen homes comes with beds made up with linens, a kitchen stocked with cookware and dishes, a washer and dryer, working Wi-Fi, and private parking in a driveway, carport or parking pad. None of the thirteen has a pool. The exact list is confirmed in writing when you book, and the grid below is the baseline every stay starts from.

Exact inclusions vary a little by home and are confirmed in writing when you book.

Laundry is worth a second look, since any guide about a longer stay tends to mention it. The Head Avenue House, the 25th Street House, the Cozy House and the Wekiwa House have full-size washers and dryers; the other eight have a washer and dryer sized to the house. The Head Avenue House also has a bedroom set up with a desk, the room our remote-work guide and the workspace page both point to.

Access at every home is by keyless entry or a lockbox, with the code or key location sent a few days before you arrive. There's no office to find and no key exchange to schedule around a flight or a moving truck, whichever guide got you here. Several homes also accept pets, with the policy and any deposit confirmed in writing before you commit rather than discovered at check-in; our guide on bringing a pet along and the pet-friendly rentals page cover what to ask before you book.

Booking by the night, the week or the month

Every guide on this page assumes one of two booking paths, and it helps to know which one applies before you read further. A night or a week runs through the home's own Airbnb or Vrbo listing, the same as any short-term rental, with the platform handling the calendar and the payment. A month or longer is booked directly with us on a written agreement, with the rate, the deposit and the pet policy confirmed in writing before you pay anything. We don't publish rates on the site because they vary by home and by season; the actual number comes from a short conversation once we know your dates.

The steps above are the same regardless of which of the thirteen homes or fourteen guest categories fits your trip. Our monthly rentals and weekly rentals pages go through each length in more detail, and the how it works page walks through the whole process from first message to move-in. If a guide's example stretches longer than planned, extensions are handled by the month: tell us as early as you know, and we extend the same written agreement at the agreed terms instead of starting new paperwork. If you arrived at this hub through a search rather than a category, our furnished houses, temporary housing and extended-stay alternative pages describe the same thirteen homes from that angle, and the questions answered page collects the shorter, one-line answers that don't need a full guide.

Billing and paperwork behind each guide

The Corporate, Insurance & ALE and Travel Healthcare guides all lead here eventually, because the paperwork changes more than the house does. A family or a leisure group pays the way any vacation rental works: a rate confirmed in writing, a deposit and an itemized receipt. A company, a staffing agency or an insurer can be the party that signs and pays instead, with the agreement written in that organization's name, a monthly invoice, and a W-9 and a certificate of insurance provided on request, since Libema carries a commercial landlord liability policy. Established companies, agencies and insurers can be billed on net-30 terms under a signed agreement or purchase order, with the first booking paid up front.

Our page for companies and insurers covers that side on its own, and corporate housing lists all 59 employers we track drive times to, from Walt Disney World and AdventHealth down to smaller local employers. None of that billing detail changes what you walk into: the same kitchen, the same washer and dryer, the same phone number, whoever is holding the invoice. Reach us at (954) 793-1171 or libemapropertiesllc@gmail.com, and expect an answer the same day. A leisure group never sees a net-30 term or a purchase order; those apply only to established companies, agencies and insurers, and a family or a reunion group simply pays the confirmed rate, the deposit and gets an itemized receipt like any other vacation rental.

Living here while a guide's advice plays out

The guides that run longest, the relocation, seasonal and corporate ones, spend real time on daily life, and the details differ by which of our four local area guides covers your home. Around the Pine Hills and Northwest guide's five homes, Presidente Supermarket on North Pine Hills Road at Silver Star Road and the Caribbean Supercenter on West Colonial Drive make that corner one of the better places in Orlando to cook from. Around the Washington Shores and West guide's four homes, Nikki's Place has served soul food less than a mile from Camping World Stadium since 1999. Near the Hiawassee guide's Wekiwa House, West Oaks Mall in Ocoee covers general shopping and a fourteen-screen movie theater. Around the two homes in the Downtown and close-in guide, Foxtail Coffee on Edgewater Drive is the roomy, laptop-friendly option for anyone working from a table instead of a desk.

Those four guides carry the groceries, restaurants, parks and gyms in real detail, cluster by cluster, so this page doesn't need to repeat them. Read the one that matches your home before you settle into a routine; it will save you a few wrong turns in the first week. Our neighborhood starter guide and guide to a season in Orlando go a level broader than the local area guides, useful if you're still deciding which part of the city to settle into rather than which grocery store to use.

What guests said, and where these guides lead next

The reviews on every home page are real, pulled verbatim from that home's own Airbnb listing with the guest's name and the month they stayed. Here are two from opposite ends of the portfolio: the home with the most reviews of any of our thirteen, and the newest-built home in it.

Ratings across the portfolio run from 4.15 to a perfect 5.0 depending on the home, and every guide on this page links to the specific homes it discusses so you can read that home's own set before you decide. The full picture across all thirteen is on our reviews page. If you came to this hub looking for a starting point rather than one category, two guides do that job directly: Which Libema Home Is Right for You matches all thirteen homes to the stays people actually book, and Your First Week in a Furnished Home in a New City picks up the day after you arrive.

The Homes · 6 min

Which Libema Home Is Right for You

All thirteen homes matched to the stays people actually book: a solo nurse, a couple, a family of five, a crew, a reunion, a game weekend, a hospital assignment.

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Guides · 4 min

Your First Week in a Furnished Home in a New City

A practical, day-by-day checklist for getting comfortable in a furnished monthly home when you move to a new city for work.

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Whichever guide brought you here, the same team answers the phone at the end of it. Tell us your dates and what brought you to Orlando, and we usually come back the same day with two or three homes that fit.