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My thoughts exactly. I could also tell you where to pick up some decent free furniture and where most of the reasonable (and centrally located) rentals are situated.
You could probably also find a nice friend to help you store your few furniture pieces over the 6 months. I'm currently enjoying a friends chameleon couch (something I couldn't afford) while she spends a few months with her family in Minnesota. Just a thought.
Haha it's basically a couch that you can convert a number of different ways. What I mean to say is, it's a versatile piece of furniture that can be both a regular couch (straight line) or it can be configured into quite a few different configurations.
That's not the one I'm couch-sitting (man that works on a few different levels) but pretty similar. Great fun for lounging! I'm pretty sure there's a industry/jargon word for it, but a design friend of mine came over to my house one day and said "oh cool - a chameleon couch!" So I've just been going with that since
Be very careful of online ads for rentals. I realize that is just about your only way to shop but my experience is that 90% of those ads are total scams, particularly because of the draw of Hawaii, paradise, etc. They usually give themselves away by featuring really nice places at really low prices.
It's nowhere near 90%; more like 5-10% (which is still high). Aside from having places at unusually low rents, the biggest dead giveaway is that instead of using the anonymized craigslist email for the reply, they put an actual yahoo/hotmail/gmail email as a reply-to address. No idea why they should do that, but it's been the case with every one I've found that's been a scam. Of course it's just a throwaway and usually they reply to you from a different one. Also, a scan through the listings or a Google image search can often turn up where they took the listing from (usually they'll just copy a real listing and cut the rent by 25%).
It's nowhere near 90%; more like 5-10% (which is still high).
Agreed, I don't know why people think or say most of the rental ads are scams. They aren't.
And why people would try to rent a place from the mainland is equally a mystery to me. Get to the island, schedule an appointment, see the place in person, and if you like it, rent it. And bring a copy of your own credit report. Don't pay an application fee.
So you wont be surfing the North Shore and Sandy with me?
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