A furnished monthly rental is a whole home you can move into with a suitcase. The furniture, the dishes, the bed you'll sleep in are already there. For a first stay, that's the appeal, and it's also the question: what exactly comes with the house, and what do you need to bring or set up yourself? The short version is that most furnished monthly homes cover the basics of daily living. The details vary from one home and one owner to the next.
Here is a plain look at what is usually included in a furnished monthly rental, plus the questions worth asking before you commit to anything. Use it as a checklist. If something matters to you, like a second bedroom set up as an office or a full-size washer on site, ask about that specific home rather than assuming.
Furniture and the rooms
Furnished means the home is set up to live in the day you arrive. Expect beds in the bedrooms, seating in the living room, and a table to eat at. Most homes include:
- Made-up beds with a frame and mattress, and usually a dresser or closet space
- Living-room seating and a television
- A dining or kitchen table with chairs
- Lamps and everyday lighting
- Some working or desk space, though the size and setup differ by home
How many bedrooms there are, how they're arranged, and whether there's a dedicated desk all change house to house. If you're on a work assignment and need a real spot to take calls, ask what the workspace actually looks like before you book.
The kitchen
A furnished kitchen is one of the reasons a house beats a hotel for a longer stay. You can cook a normal meal instead of eating out for a month. Typically the kitchen comes with the major appliances, meaning a refrigerator, stove, and microwave, plus a starter set of the things you cook and eat with: pots and pans, plates, glasses, silverware, and basic utensils. A coffee maker is common.
What's rarely stocked is food. Plan to buy your own groceries, dish soap, coffee, and the pantry staples you like. If a specific item matters to your household, like an oven for a family or a full-size fridge, confirm it's there.
Linens, towels, and everyday items
Most furnished monthly homes provide sheets, pillows, blankets, and bath towels, so you're not out shopping for bedding on day one. Many also leave a starter supply of everyday items such as toilet paper, hand soap, and a few cleaning basics to get you going. After that first supply, restocking for a long stay is usually on you.
Laundry is worth checking on its own. Some homes have a full-size washer and dryer on site. Others share laundry or send you to a laundromat. For a month or more, in-home laundry makes a real difference.
Utilities and internet
For monthly furnished stays, utilities like electricity, water, and trash are commonly folded into the rate. That gives you one predictable payment and saves you setting up accounts in your name for a short stay. It isn't universal, so confirm how it's handled and whether there's any cap on usage.
Internet is the one people care most about, especially anyone working from the house. Some homes come with Wi-Fi already active. Others are wired and ready for you to start service. Ask whether internet is included, roughly how fast it is, and whether it's up and running before you arrive.
Questions worth asking up front
Two homes advertised as furnished and monthly can be run very differently. Before you commit, get clear answers on these:
- Minimum stay. Many furnished homes are set up for about a month or longer. Confirm the shortest and longest terms.
- Deposit and payment. How much is due up front, what the deposit covers, and how you get it back.
- Pets. Whether pets are allowed, any limits, and any added cost.
- Parking. Where you park, how many vehicles fit, and whether a larger work vehicle is fine.
- What the rate includes. Utilities, internet, lawn care, and cleaning. Ask what's in and what's extra.
- Maintenance. Who to call if the AC quits or a pipe leaks, and how quickly someone responds.
- Paperwork. If you need a lease and receipts for an employer, agency, or insurer, confirm you'll get them.
None of this needs to be complicated. A good furnished rental is upfront about what's included and quick to answer the rest. Our Orlando homes come furnished and set up for monthly stays, and we're glad to walk you through exactly what a specific house includes before you decide. Once you know which home fits your dates, you can check availability and we'll fill in the details.
How inclusions differ from house to house
The list of what comes with a Libema home barely changes from one house to the next. Six of our thirteen homes publish a street address up front, the Amelia, Head Avenue, Piedmont, Dollins, Katherine and 25th Street houses, and the other six share only a neighborhood and zip code until you book, Meet & Play, Entertainment, Londonderry, Cozy, Sunset Lake and Wekiwa. Neither group gets a lighter starter kit. A three-bedroom bungalow and a six-bedroom ranch both arrive furnished, both come with a working kitchen, and both include private parking, so choosing a house comes down to matching its layout and extras to your stay.
Here is the baseline every one of the thirteen homes is set up with, confirmed exactly in writing once you pick a house and a move-in date.
Exact inclusions vary a little by home and are confirmed in writing when you book.
From that baseline, three things change house to house: the laundry setup, the parking type, and whether a house has a bonus room like a desk, a game room or a bunk room. The sections below go through each one so you can match a specific home to what you actually need.
The kitchen in each home
Every kitchen in the portfolio has a refrigerator, a range, a microwave and a starter set of cookware and dishes, the baseline covered above. What differs is the finish and how it is stocked, and a few examples make the point better than a general description. The Amelia House was recently renovated with white shaker cabinets, granite-look stone counters and a full stainless lineup: a range, a microwave, a dishwasher and a side-by-side refrigerator. The Katherine House kitchen comes stocked with cookware, dishes and a coffee maker on top of its own stainless appliances and quartz-look counters, one reason families settling in for a season often pick it first.
The Meet & Play House kitchen goes further with an island that seats people while you cook, next to a dining table for six, useful when more than one person is sharing meals through a longer stay. The Wekiwa House, the smallest home in the portfolio, keeps it plain and practical: a white kitchen with stainless appliances and cabinets already stocked with glasses, plates and cookware, sized for one or two people rather than a crowd.
The Clue House, above, is the six-bedroom home in Pine Hills, and its kitchen was renovated with gray shaker cabinets, stone counters and stainless appliances, stocked the same way as the smaller houses. A bigger house does not mean a smaller kitchen or a thinner stock of pots and pans; it just means more people cooking in it at once.
Laundry, parking and yards by home
Every home has its own washer and dryer, so scrubs, sheets and towels go into the machine in the house instead of a laundromat bag. Four of the thirteen, the Head Avenue House, the 25th Street House, the Cozy House and the Wekiwa House, have full-size laundry sets rather than a compact or stacked unit, worth knowing if you are washing sheets and towels for a house of six or more every week.
Parking is always private and always free, but the setup is not identical across the twelve. The Piedmont House has a large concrete parking pad built to fit several vehicles, which is why crews with work trucks often land there. The Entertainment House has an attached one-car garage, and the Meet & Play House has its own attached garage too. The Sunset Lake House parks under a carport shaded by a live oak. The Amelia House, the Head Avenue House, the Dollins House, the Katherine House and the 25th Street House each park on a private driveway. The Londonderry House, the Cozy House and the Wekiwa House park on site too, just without a driveway, carport or pad on record for any of the three.
Yards split the same way. Eight of the thirteen homes have a fenced yard: Amelia, Head Avenue, Piedmont, Dollins, Katherine, 25th Street, Meet & Play and Sunset Lake. The remaining four, Entertainment, Londonderry, Cozy and Wekiwa, have a yard that is not fenced. One of the fenced yards is mid-refresh right now: Sunset Lake's backyard is fine for walking a pet on a leash but is not set up for one to roam loose yet. Londonderry's unfenced yard is in the same spot, being worked on and fine for a leash walk only for now, and we would rather say both plainly than let a photo oversell either one.
Pets and the yard
Several of the thirteen homes accept pets, and the policy and any deposit are confirmed in writing before you commit, specific to that house and your pet. A fenced yard usually matters most: the eight fenced yards listed above mean your dog can go out the back door on its own the moment you arrive. Two homes have a yard being worked on right now, Sunset Lake's fenced backyard and Londonderry's unfenced yard, and both still work for a pet on a leash while that finishes.
If a specific breed, size or number of pets matters to your stay, say so when you inquire. We would rather match you to the right house up front than have a policy surprise you at check-in. Our guide on bringing a pet on a work assignment covers the rest of what to sort out before the drive down.
Desks, game rooms and a bunk room
A few homes include a room that is not part of the standard list. The Head Avenue House has a desk set up for working from home, and the Meet & Play House goes further with a desk and an office chair in two separate bedrooms, useful if two people on the same stay both need a real spot to take calls.
Three homes set aside a room for playing rather than working.
West OrlandoPiedmont
11 min downtown · 11 min ORMC · 13 min Universal
West OrlandoMeet. Play. Stay.
9 min downtown · 10 min ORMC · 12 min Universal
Northwest OrlandoEntertainment Home
11 min downtown · 12 min ORMC · 14 min Universal
The Piedmont House has a foosball table and an arcade basketball game off its open living room. The Meet & Play House has a separate room built around a full-size pool table, a dart board and a second table, which is where its name comes from.
The Entertainment House pairs a foosball table with table tennis, next to a living room with the same style of fireplace TV wall as Meet & Play. The Londonderry House has a bunk room with two sets of bunk beds, built for a family or a team, alongside a king bedroom and a queen bedroom. And if you are traveling with an infant, Meet. Play. Stay. keeps a portable crib on hand, the only home in the portfolio that lists one. None of these extras cost more; they are just part of that specific house.
Bedrooms, bathrooms and how many people a house sleeps
The thirteen homes range from the two-bedroom Wekiwa House, which sleeps up to six, to the six-bedroom Head Avenue House, which sleeps up to fifteen. Most of the rest sleep eight to fourteen across three or four bedrooms. Sleeping capacity counts real beds only; a sofa in the living room is furniture to relax on, not a bed we count toward how many people a house holds.
Bathrooms vary more than most guests expect. The Katherine House, the Sunset Lake House and the Cozy House each have one full bathroom serving three bedrooms, workable for a family on a normal morning schedule and worth flagging for a crew that all leaves at the same hour. At the other end, the compact Wekiwa House has two full bathrooms for its two bedrooms, a tub bath and a separate walk-in tile shower, part of why it works well for two people keeping different hours.
| Home | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | Sleeps | Beds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit Tree HomeHolden Heights | 3 | 2 | 10 | 4 |
| Entertainment HomePine Hills | 3 | 2 | 11 | 4 |
| WinterPark HomeLockhart / Rosemont | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
| Wekiwa HomeHiawassee | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| The Clue HousePine Hills / Rosemont | 6 | 3 | 15 | 7 |
| BlueEarthHiawassee Villas / Pine Hills | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| PiedmontWashington Shores | 4 | 3 | 14 | 5 |
| Cozy HomePine Hills | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
| City and Stadium Sanctuary VibesWashington Shores / Lake Sunset | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| Meet. Play. Stay.Malibu Groves | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 |
| Game Day Getaway-Downtown OrlandoWashington Shores | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 |
| Amelia’s Arena RetreatParramore / Downtown Edge | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| Downtown & Stadium Cozy RetreatPine Hills | 3 | 1.5 | 8 | 6 |
Counts as published in each home's own listing; sofas are not counted as beds.
Use the table above to compare bedrooms, bathrooms and sleeping capacity across all thirteen homes at once, then read the notes on the specific home page before you commit. We would rather you know about one bathroom for three bedrooms before you arrive than after.
The agreement, the deposit and your receipts
Booking by the month runs on one document: a written monthly agreement. It names the home, the dates, the rate and the deposit, all confirmed with you before you pay anything, and it is signed before you arrive. If a company, a staffing agency, an insurer or a relocation coordinator is the one paying, we can write the agreement in their name with you listed as the occupant, and we invoice monthly with an itemized receipt so nobody has to reconstruct what was charged for later.
Established companies, agencies and insurers can also be billed on net-30 terms under a signed agreement or a purchase order, with the first month paid up front; we provide a W-9 and a certificate of insurance on request, since Libema carries a commercial landlord liability policy. That arrangement is for organizations. A family or a leisure group booking on their own pays the normal way: a rate confirmed in writing, a deposit, and an itemized receipt for the stay.
Extensions run the same direction every time: by the month. When a stay needs to run longer, tell us as soon as you know, and we extend the agreement at the same terms instead of starting a new one. If the house is already booked for the following month, we say so early, so you are not packing a car on the last night with nowhere lined up next.
Booking a short visit before you commit to a month
If you want to see a house in person before signing a month-long agreement, every home also takes nightly and weekly bookings through its own Airbnb or Vrbo listing, the same house with the same furniture and the same kitchen, just booked through a different channel. It is a practical way to spend a night or two in a home during an orientation trip or a hospital visit before you decide on the month.
The two booking paths lead to the same house but different paperwork. A monthly stay is a written agreement directly with us, with the rate, deposit and pet policy confirmed before you pay. A nightly or weekly stay runs through the platform's own booking and cancellation terms. If you start on a short nightly stay and decide to extend into a month, tell us and we will move the booking onto the standard monthly agreement so you are not stuck on a nightly rate for a long stay.
Groceries and the first week's shopping
A furnished kitchen is stocked with the tools to cook, not the food itself, so the first errand at every home is a grocery run. Where you go depends on which part of Orlando your house sits in. From the downtown-edge homes, the Amelia and 25th Street houses, the compact Publix at The Paramount on Lake Eola (400 East Central Boulevard) is the closest full grocery store. From the Pine Hills homes, Head Avenue, Entertainment, Londonderry and Cozy, Presidente Supermarket sits at Pine Hills Road and Silver Star Road, the Caribbean Supercenter is a few blocks south on West Colonial Drive, and the Walmart Supercenter on West Princeton Street is the closest big-box option; the nearest Publix is a short drive south to Metro West Village or west on Colonial toward Ocoee.
From the Washington Shores homes on the west side, Piedmont, Dollins and Sunset Lake, the nearest big-box options are the Walmart Supercenter on West Princeton Street and Presidente Supermarket on Pine Hills Road, with the Publix at The Paramount downtown also in range. From Meet. Play. Stay. in Malibu Groves and from Wekiwa Home further west, the Publix at Metro West Village on South Hiawassee Road is the everyday stop, with West Oaks Mall in Ocoee nearby for anything a grocery run does not cover.
Inside of a Publix store in MetroWest, Orlando, Florida · Nielsoncaetanosalmeron · CC BY 4.0 · resized from 6000x4000
None of this is folded into the rate, and we would rather say so than let anyone assume the fridge stays full on its own. Budget a first grocery trip into the day you arrive, and the kitchen handles the rest of the month.
What guests said about moving in
The reviews below are real, taken verbatim from each home's own Airbnb listing, with the reviewer's name and the month they stayed. Jose, who stayed at WinterPark Home in October 2024, wrote: 'Definitely a great place to stay, updated appliances, great internet, comfortable beds.' Cristina, who stayed a full month at Meet. Play. Stay. in July 2026, wrote: 'Absolute great stay. The place was clean. I had everything I needed to make it a long-term stay. I was in this Airbnb for 30 days.'
Those two lines cover what this page is about: an updated kitchen, a working internet connection, a bed that holds up, and enough of the basics in place that a 30-day stay feels like a home instead of a hotel room. The full set of reviews for every house is on our reviews page.
If you want to go deeper on the practical side of a longer stay, two of our guides pick up where this one leaves off: what to sort out in your first week in a new city, and what a coordinator should check before booking on someone else's behalf.
Your First Week in a Furnished Home in a New City
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