Wondering if anyone had experience with furnished short term rentals for traveling professionals, doctors and nurse nurses. Do you like them? Do they work for you?

I could never understand why anyone would want a short term rental, because with the same efforts, you could land a fish who's stay a year, two or three!

The furnished rentals for the type of folks you describe is called Mid-term. They stay for a few months. Vs short-term, where they stay for a weekend, or a week - maybe two max, while on vacation.

I do mid-term-rentals (MTR) and am loving it.

These folks are easier to deal with, don't tear the place up, well-qualified financially, and in my experience, very cooperative. Easier turn-overs

Smaller places where they have the entire unit to themselves seems to be most desired.

More $ up front for furnishings, but 2-3 times more rent.

I had a niche market with miltary tenants, six months at a time. Per diem rental for more than twice what it would otherwise rent for, but of course some extra expenses.

We loved it, rode that gravy train for5 7.5 years, but the base has now built housing for that group.

They were all pre screened career military, top notch tenants.

Never an empty in 7.5 years.

Short-term is weekenders, visitors, in town for a wedding or a funeral.

Mid-term is nurses, doctors, utility workers in town for a temporary assignment but their real home is elsewhere.

Long-term is a traditional rental.

Since I do mtm, I've rented to plenty of mid-term-type workers, but nothing furnished yet.

If you do furnished, parking and location are important. You'll probably end up spending $5-$10-$15-$20k on furnishings, depending on what you have on hand vs their expectations vs whether you're buying retail or you have an opportunity to acquire discount items. (ie, those places where offices or hotels send their equipment for resale when they go under/renovate.)

All the mattresses I bought seemed to end up one or two steps firmer than what I thought I was buying.

My anesthesiologist has his family visit him periodically, so he's not big into shared housing, like a rooming house. But my factory workers are used to sharing space.

I do Mid-Term also. I enjoy hosting healthcare professionals for 3 months at a time. They are at work 12 hours per day, and they don't cause a lot of wear and tear on my place.

A lot of them travel with pets and I put a bit of time into screening the pets up front, but otherwise not much upfront work at all.

I have a couple of 400 sq ft 1-bedroom units and both stay full year-round. They check in and out remotely. I never meet most of my residents during their entire stay.