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My husband just got a 2-3 year contract with a company near Treviso. We are hoping to find a fully furnished casa indipendente. I have been searching for Casa arredata but have only come up with a few "semiarredata". What does 1/2 furnished really mean? I only speak a bit of Italian and would love recommendations for english speaking agencies if anyone has any...
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Posts: 33 | Location (City & State): ogden, utah | Registered: 19 July 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Semi-furnished could mean anything from having a stove and/or a sink in the kitchen to a bare kitchen but some furniture. Unfurnished often means a bare shell of a kitchen.
 
Posts: 2198 | Location (City & State): Castiglion Fiorentino, AR | Registered: 21 October 2004Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I'm with Graeme- it may mean you have a kitchen sink, instead of the normal practice of renting an unfurnished apt with no ceiling lights (only dangling wires), no kitchen or bathroom cabinets, no appliances, no kitchen sink (just water and drain connections).
 
Posts: 14339 | Location (City & State): Friuli | Registered: 21 November 2004Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Yes, from personal experience I can endorse both Graeme and Bill. Our current unfurnished rental was initially offered as literally a series of bare rooms. Ceiling lights - yes, but just a water and gas pipe poking through the 'kitchen' wall and a broken sink on the bathroom floor.

Landlord agreed - at no cost to us - to repair bathroom; supply sink and cooker in kitchen; and redecorate. And as a bit of plumbing work was needed for the sink, he was also OK with putting in the little extra pipework for a dishwasher. All were done/ready by the time we moved in, but worth underlining that every last tiny item of household equipment has to be yours.

Also must mention my landlord a nice guy who took the practical view that with rural longterm rentals not as easy to secure as those in cities, it was worth spending a few hundred €s to secure a year+ of guaranteed occupancy.


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Posts: 388 | Location (City & State): Ascigno (CH), Abruzzo | Registered: 01 October 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Ours was listed as vuoto but we did get a fully functioning bathroom--no mirror or towel racks though. The kitchen had to be supplied by us at our own expense, including plumber. Wires dangling from the ceiling at least have the light bulb socket, so we can change it or just screw in a bulb.

I've seen arredato and semi-arredato: the former seems to have a lot of furniture if the pictures are telling the truth; the latter seemed to involve an armadio, kitchen sink and cabinets, maybe a stove. What we would call unfurnished.
 
Posts: 870 | Location (City & State): From Lille to Torino | Registered: 12 January 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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