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Finding a temporary Home
with CHBO
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Travel agents are more often than not agents for CHBO (corporate housing by owner) and
this is a vast and helpful enterprise. If they are not accredited agents they will put you in
touch with one. Very often the course of action followed by CHBO agents is to visit your
present home and see what living conditions exist, the size of your house, your requirements
such as internet and laundry facilities. Bearing in mind that you may have to be temporally
accommodated for some time until suitable home is found and purchased.
The idea of hotel accommodation is simply not feasible when there is a family to consider.
Many corporates when re-locating employees use corporate housing rather than putting up
the whole family in hotel. Hotels can be pleasant for a short stay but the expense and living
accommodation is usually confined to one or two rooms where you do not have the
convenience of your own goods around you. Sure, they can provide high definition
television and the internet but really home is home and there is no place like it. A suite
however if considered as an option in a moderately priced hotel will be far more expensive
than renting a fully furnished CHBO unit or house, plus they are not very pleasant for an
extended stay which may be protracted by your employer or for other reasons. If the
overseas assignment is permanent then there are all sorts of other things to consider. It is
moderately easy to procure a new home but you have to sell your own dwelling for example.
A three day or maybe a week at a hotel is fine and can be considered a holiday but not
longer. Corporate housing brings home life back to normal and if the corporate housing
agent has done his work correctly you will feel as though you are at home, even if the
environment is changed.