[Fizz]

Hi,

Have spent many months reading this forum and now our time for the move is fast approaching, I have plucked up the courage to ask a question that I can't find an answer to! Brave or what?!
We five...me, my husband and 3 kids(16, 14 and 8), are heading out to Tauranga in August and are renting initially. As most rentals are unfurnished, what I want to find out is can we rent furniture for the weeks before our stuff arrives and more importantly how much this may cost? Or do we have to buy to make do for a few weeks?
There...I've done it now...phew!

[Tanya]

Hi
We bought airbeds for the 4 of us and duvets/pillows when we arrived. We had sheets etc in our luggage and made do with that until our container arrived. We hired a tv,washing machine and fridge/freezer from a rental place called Mr Rentals (There are others).

We bought an outdoor table and chairs and used that inside as we were going to buy one anyway. We bought the children beanbags to use after in their bedrooms.

We arrived in November and our container took until february to get to us!!

Rentals must supply an oven so thats sorted.

I am sure you can hire other furniture elsewhere - no doubt someone else can help you with that.

Tanya

[jubjub]

We used DTR in Auckland, they have an office in Tauranga

http://www.dtr.co.nz/index.cfm/Locations/Tauranga

They do week to week hire, and you can get pretty much all furniture from them.

You can do an online quote to get an idea, but you can probably haggle a bit when you get there if you are hiring a lot of stuff

[Smiler]

Hi Fizz

Welcome to the forum. There, it didn't hurt at all, did it? ;)

We used DTR until our washing machine etc arrived and went to the Warehouse and got foam mattresses, pots and pans etc, just cheap things to get by.

After our container came and we didn't need the other stuff, I sold some on Trademe and I lend the rest to new arrivals.