Touring Services: Demand on the Rise
June 30th, 2010
CORT’s local market touring services have really received a boost in popularity in recent months.
Category: Industry & Business
June 2010
Furniture in Austin
June 22nd, 2010
Finding furniture in Austin, Texas, should you be headed to the City of the Violet Crown, is an absolutely essential element of making that move. It’s also one of the least glamorous aspects of relocating—not that many elements in moving are particularly fun. Still, making sure you’ll have a bed to sleep on when you move into your new home can be particularly unsavory when you’re worried about more pressing matters like transitioning to a new job or ensuring your kids get into the right school. Thankfully, CORT offers both rental furniture and clearance furniture in Austin, meaning that we’ll be able to help you out regardless of whether you’re making a temporary relocation or long-term move. If you’re looking for furniture in Austin, might you also be needing a place to live there? Using our nifty apartment searching tool, you can browse our large and growing database of Austin apartments. The Apartment Search tools are designed to find the perfect apartment for your unique needs, taking into account variables like budget, location, and size requirements. What’s more, when you use Apartment Search, you can be eligible for up to $200 in renter rewards. Even though we’re quite high on …
Category: Style & Design
Moving Tips
June 18th, 2010
Moving can be a really stressful, harried time in your life. Even if the move is for entirely positive reasons—you got a promotion and are relocating to corporate headquarters, say, or you and your new spouse are moving into the suburbs to raise a family—it’s still a complicated, unwieldy process rife with difficulties, trials, and tribulations. That’s why we’ve prepared a series of simple moving tips designed to frame the process. This is hardly comprehensive—maybe we’ll tackle that down the road—but will serve you well as maxims for your move. Start by organizing everything. This includes obvious things, like what you’ll be packing up and taking with you to your new home, but should extend beyond that. Organize your possessions into things you want and things you don’t and sell or donate the latter. Moving can provide a useful pretext to slim down on unnecessary things you might not have the heart to get rid of otherwise. Get obsessive about making lists. This goes along with the organization advice. Lists—of what is in which box, of what tasks need to be done when, and the like—can prove incredibly useful. (For further moving advice, which includes useful links on this matter, …
Category: Style & Design
Clearance Furniture
June 15th, 2010
We here at CORT are proud to offer an excellent selection of clearance furniture at our many furniture store locations around the world. Though our name is most commonly associated with our comprehensive range of furniture rental options, clearance furniture is just one more area we happen to excel at. We work hard at delivering these and other products to you in order to make your office’s relocation, or your own personal move, as smooth and hassle-free as possible. The term “clearance furniture” might conjure up images of mismatched, unwanted or heavily used pieces of haphazardly collected and assembled furnishings. While this characterization might be appropriate for some purveyors, at CORT, we go out of our way to ensure we’re providing you with a quality, desirable product at a reasonable price. And we succeed. The secret to our success is that we carefully select previously rented furniture in our stock that was employed in model homes, executive apartments, and on movie sets, all of which are places where furniture is there to be seen much more than it is to be physically utilized. We then offer these pieces to you, the consumer, at prices up to 70% off standard retail …
Category: Style & Design
Furniture Rental: Power to the Purchasing Officers
June 10th, 2010
Office furniture rental is an oft-overlooked strategy when it comes to keeping operating costs down for one simple reason: Most people assume it’s cheaper to buy, long-term, than it is to rent a comparable amount of furniture. While this is theoretically true, given a long enough time frame and when comparing like amounts of furniture, this overlooks the important and common issue of seasonal differences in need. What money might be saved by buying vs. renting can often be offset or negated by the fact that some furniture is going unused for large portions of the year, leading to unwanted and unnecessary storage costs. In addition to storage costs, there are other hidden costs to buying furniture, which include the maintenance, management, and repair of pieces year-round. These costs can be mitigated by opting to rent furniture to meet seasonal demands. Organizations where this route is particularly useful include institutions of higher learning, where member ranks swell and contract significantly according to specific dates on a calendar. Hotels and convention centers, where large meetings are often held during conference season, can also benefit from this method of accommodation. For a more in-depth treatment on this matter, read the article here, …
Category: Industry & Business
