Everything you need to know BEFORE booking your furnished rental for your travel assignment in Sioux Falls.
Where you live matters. SOMNI offers no-nonsense, flexible, short-term fully furnished apartments for month-to-month stays.
If you've been searching for furnished apartments in Sioux Falls or short-term rentals in Sioux Falls on Google, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the generic rental companies and local apartment communities claiming to offer furnished rentals but falling short. However, at SOMNI, we are a locally owned corporate housing provider that specializes exclusively in short-term, fully furnished apartments. We take pride in understanding and accommodating YOUR needs and budget while you're on the road because it's our sole focus.
Since 2011, we've been in the corporate housing business and have witnessed significant changes in the short-term rental industry. We're not just keeping up with the times, though. We're blazing a trail that's even fresher and better for you. Let us demonstrate how we stand out from the rest.
We’re here to share all of the secrets you need to know when booking your lodging.
First of all,
Tip #1: Sioux Falls Fully Furnished Apartments Offer Plenty of Options.
If you are a medical traveler or traveling construction crew in need of short-term furnished housing in Sioux Falls, rest assured that there are plenty of options available to you. The key is to look for fully furnished apartments that cater to your specific needs.
Tip #2: Choose the Right Sioux Falls Fully Furnished Apartments to Save Money. This is where it gets a little tricky.
Choosing the right furnished short-term housing can significantly impact your budget. Look for budget-friendly options that offer amenities such as kitchens, laundry facilities, and other features that can help you save on meal and laundry expenses.
Tip #3: Prioritize Work/Life Balance When Booking Sioux Falls Fully Furnished Apartments. Hotels aren’t a great choice for relocations that could last several months.
The work/life balance of your employees is crucial to the profitability of your project. As a project manager or in HR, you must choose housing that suits your relocating employees to keep them happy and productive. Look for fully furnished apartments that offer amenities such as fitness centers, recreational areas, and other features that promote work/life balance.
Tip #4: Impress Your Boss by Choosing the Best Sioux Falls Fully Furnished Apartments with the shortest, most flexible terms so you ultimately save money.
As someone in charge of arranging workforce lodging for your project, choosing the right fully furnished apartments in Sioux Falls can make you look good in front of your boss. Look for housing options that offer you flexibilty to change your reservations, along with excellent amenities and services to impress your boss and ensure the success of your project.
We’ll help you know exactly what you need to know when reserving housing for your employees. Seriously. The more you know, the more you save, the less risk you have, the happier the employee, the happier your boss, the more successful you are, and THATS how we all win together.
It’s our ONE job at SOMNI to show you how to save money and mitigate any risks for you. It’s our job to make it a no-brainer to stay SOMNI each and every single time you need furnished temporary housing.
So here we go. Details below.
How much should I budget for relocation housing for my employee?
Budget is critical. But to truly understand the budget, means to know everything there is to know about your options. We’ll help you understand how to get the best-furnished housing for your buck, at the best rental terms.
Terms are EVERYTHING. (read that again).
Everyone that calls us is concerned about the ‘nightly rate’. They are looking for the ‘cheapest’ apartment we have, or they’ll ask for a ‘small furnished studio’ (code for least expensive option). But trust us - we know, they don’t want the cheapest, they want the best VALUE for their dollar.
And often, they aren’t thinking further than just looking at the cost per night. Saving on living expenses is much more than just the nightly rate.
We at SOMNI in Sioux City, have boiled down the entire process so that when you call you’re getting the best deal in town based on your needs. We’ve made our furnished apartments perfectly priced so that you don’t have to worry about whether or not you are getting the best bang for your buck. (we’re weeding out the Airbnbs renting out their basement room as a living space, yikes)
Let’s start here with real furnished apartment. Let’s have you firm up some details before you call us.
Here are some questions you need to ask yourself before you start looking for temporary housing for your crew:
How long will I need housing? Start and end date
Is the length of time certain? Or do I need to be flexible? What if an employee is fired or transferred? Tip: after thousands of guests, we can say with 100% certainty - no one is certain of their travel assignments. Look for flexibility if at all possible.
How many employees (minimum and maximum).
Are the employees booking directly for their housing? Or is the company taking care of housing for the crew? Here’s a link to the current GSA per diem for 2023.
What are the types of employee housing available to traveling work crews and medical staff to consider?
Budget motels - often very low budget. Great for 1-2 nights at a time. Typically doesn’t offer full kitchens. Eating out in restaurants. Sioux City has a few off the interstate. Please check google reviews and ownership and management changes.
Moderate-priced hotels usually in our area $70-$110 per night + tax. Great for a few days to a week. Sioux City has several near restaurants. Mid-market hotels sometimes provide a small refrigerator or microwave for heating up leftovers. Some companies try to save by placing 2 employees in one room (2 beds). This puts the employer at the highest risk for dissatisfied employees as they have no privacy after work, sharing one room and one bathroom.
Extended-stay hotels ($110-$215 per night) - Extended-stay hotels offer one room with a kitchen which will include cabinetry, fridge, microwave and cooktop (no oven). Often times employers will try placing 2 employees in one room to save costs but they must share one bathroom and living and sleeping in one room doesn’t offer any privacy for employees to live comfortably. It’s important to note that hotels are still transient in nature, and hotels will by noisier with other travelers coming and going at all hours of the night, doors slamming, thin walls offering no acoustical privacy.
Unfurnished Apartments - Unfurnished apartment communities offer a very affordable option however that low monthly cost comes at terms that are most rigid for those relocating to the area. Apartment communities will require the highest level of fees, deposits, lengthy application process, as well as firm set lease lengths (typically 12 months), as well as firm notice to vacate terms that you’ll be responsible for (30-60+ days). TIP: Always ask how much notice you must give before they will stop billing you (notice to vacate)
Airbnb - Homes or rooms offered by private homeowners. This option is for those willing to go thru the uncertainty of several aspects of the stay. Hotels offer far more consistent standards no matter the price point.
Furnished finder - This is a newer option in the last 10 years. Companies or traveling employees must book directly with the owner of the property. Housing listings are managed by the person listing it so often listings will be unavailable, these options are typically private homeowners offering up their investments on the side.
National Corporate Housing - understanding the search results, are they local? These are companies like blu corporate housing, travelers haven, and corporaterentals.com. These companies are known as ‘third-party’ corporate housing companies. You fill out a form on their website and they then start calling around trying to locate housing options for you in the town you are moving to. If you’ve already called the local companies — they will be calling the exact same place you just called and adding 20 -30%, a variety of fees. It’s not uncommon for us to get several calls from a handful of national companies needing a quote for the exact same customer.
Local corporate housing. Are they local? Is there on-site management? Is there an 800# for you to call in the middle of the night? Local corporate housing companies exist in most mid-markets. It is in your best interest to look for DEDICATED furnished housing providers, not just a investor with a house that threw some furniture in a house so he could triple his rent. You are looking for specifically locally owned and managed companies that have systems in place for thoroughly cleaning, inventorying, and then inspecting your housing prior to a new guest moving in. Professional local fully furnished housing companies that do this, will have a website, a phone number, and will be able to walk you thru where you’ll be staying, who is on-site if any questions arise, they’ll tell you best places to get groceries, best (and worst) parts of town, where to get the best local pizza, etc. If you’re hear for a month or more, this is priceless information if you have never traveled to that city before.
Does Sioux City have a local corporate housing provider? Hey there, we’re SOMNI - that’s us.
We pride ourselves in knowing our competition, their fees and all the rentals terms - so we can be sure we’re offering you even better terms. We’ll walk you thru exactly what you need to know when you’re scoping out the competition (so you get the very best deal).
You don’t have time, and we don’t have time, to try and rope you into a long-winded rental agreement that ties you into a commitment that isn’t practical for your job. You need fast, efficient, flexible, and no-nonsense pricing.
Our ultra-flexible rental terms work best for companies looking for workforce lodging. Traveling medical staff, traveling work crews never really know how long they’ll be in town and can’t commit financially to a fixed 3 or 6-month lease. And with SOMNI furnished housing, they don’t have to. We offer rates and stays as short as 1 month, with ONLY the best terms so we can be sure you’re getting the best value for your company budget.
Companies that book with SOMNI choose us so they can relocate employees in and out on a routine basis. And that’s where we shine. Flexibility is our specialty. Are you bringing in a new crew member? Awesome. We’ll secure the apartment, and have it cleaned for the next employee to arrive.
Important questions to ask when trying to find furnished apartments.
You’ll need to know industry-specific rental terms when trying to book a furnished apartment in Sioux City. Always ask these questions when you call around so you can compare apples to apples:
Do you offer furnished apartments? (ask this of Apartment communities that show up in search results for furnished)
What is the shortest rental term available?
What is the application process like?
Is there an application fee?
Is there a background check?
If you’re booking for an entire crew, how is the process managed for multiple occupants?
How long does it take to get approved to rent?
Is there a refundable security deposit?
What fees are due right away?
When is rent billed?
Do you offer weekly rates?
Are utilities set up?
Is Internet included? Cable?
What are the Notice to Vacate terms?
Is there washer and dryer IN the apartment? or nearby?
What amenities are available?
Ask what the minimum length of stay is.
Ask what happens if I book for a longer term, and need to end my stay suddenly.
Is there a lease break free? (there is NOT at SOMNI)
What is the Notice To Vacate that is required? (SOMNI is 15 days)
Is the community pet friendly? What are the fees and processes to bring a pet?
What about SOMNI rental terms and fees?
With SOMNI furnished housing, there’s NO huge security deposit, NO application fees, easy weekly all-inclusive rates. Each corporate apartment is all set up to include utilities, cable and internet, and fully furnished top to bottom. when you stay with SOMNI, you also get the shortest notice to vacate terms in the corporate housing industry. If you get laid off or transferred out. It’s easy to pack up and go on to your next gig.
SOMNI Sioux City is:
Easy to book
Easy to stay
Easy to leave (go where the job takes you)
Better rates than hotels (book longer and save)
NO long-term hassles (stays as short as a month)
Great neighborhoods
Notice to vacate terms: ULTRA flexible (15 days notice to vacate)
Refundable Security deposit required: NOPE
Application fee: Nada.
Pets welcome: Yep! (a few community-specific pet rules apply, call for details)
Laundry: EASY AND FREE
FULL-SIZE apartments, each fully furnished
What if you don’t know how long you’ll be in town?
You’re on your way in, could be here a month —- or 18 months. You just can’t be sure, so you NEED your stay to be flexible (aka no long-term rental contracts). We understand.
We’ve come to know exactly what you are up against, so book an apartment for a long as you think you’ll be here, and extend as you like. Seriously.
Do we sound expensive? We’re not.
We know our competition, and we want to make you’re getting the best deal in town.
We get it, you haven’t worked for a while so you need flexible payment terms until your paychecks start arriving. How do weekly rates sound? Good, we’ve got that. We have a large number of apartments to suit all budgets, so if you’re tight on funds we have options to fit your budget
How do we book?
Easy. Take out your phone, we just sent you a link. Booking is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Done.
Everything is electronic in our world, you can book with a few clicks on your phone. To book a SOMNI fully furnished apartment, we’ll send you an easy booking link right to your phone with all of the details (availability, rates, photos of the exact apartment, address), just tell us a few details for the reservation (name, and when you’re coming in, payment preferences), easy and done, fast. We’ll send you a confirmation email and text of your booking.
We’ll start fluffing your pillows, we’ll do a final inspection of your apartment to make sure it’s super duper clean, and we’ll get your keys ready so you can move in the second you get into town.
Seriously, it can’t get easier. Stay SOMNI today.
