When you're deploying your leadership team to open, build, and operate a new location, the last thing anyone should be managing is where they sleep. Switchplace handles the housing — so your team arrives ready to deliver from day one.
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Every expansion creates the same five headaches. Here's how Switchplace takes them off the list.
Deploying your leadership team weeks before opening means they're exhausted before day one — no kitchen, no laundry, no real place to decompress after a 12-hour day on-site.
Move-in-ready furnished apartments near the new location, booked in days. The team has a real home base from the moment they arrive.
Permitting delays, contractor overruns, and inspection rescheduling are the norm, not the exception. Rigid hotel blocks mean paying for empty rooms or scrambling to extend at peak-rack rate.
Flexible lease terms with no penalty for extensions or early checkouts. When the timeline slips two weeks, the housing adjusts — not the budget.
A 5-person pre-opening team in hotels for 8 weeks — nightly rate, occupancy tax, per diem for every meal — can run $77,000+ before the doors even open.
Full kitchens and in-unit laundry cut most per diem. Corporate housing typically runs 45–50% less than extended hotel stays, all in.
Scaling groups don't open one location at a time. When three cities are in build-out simultaneously, sourcing housing market-by-market becomes a full-time job for whoever owns travel ops.
One partner across all 50 states. Switchplace handles sourcing, vetting, and coordination in every market — single point of contact, consistent standards.
Your best operators, directors, and team leads are hard to replace. Asking them to live out of a hotel for two months is a fast path to burnout and attrition before the opening even happens.
Curated, comfortable housing signals that the organization invests in its people the same way it invests in the guest experience. A retention tool as much as a logistics one.
Most clients have confirmed housing within 48–72 hours of their first conversation with us.
Share the city, team size, approximate timeline, and any preferences. We ask the right questions so you don't have to think through every detail.
Our team sources furnished apartments near your new location using our vetted partner network — no mystery listings, no surprises at check-in.
Review options, ask questions, and confirm. We handle all coordination with property partners, including flexible lease terms built around your actual timeline.
Move-in-ready from day one. 24/7 support for the duration of the stay — so the team focuses on the opening, not on housing issues.
Mid-tier business hotel vs. Switchplace furnished apartments. Major market. Based on 2025 average daily rates and standard per diem.
| Cost category | Extended hotel stay | Switchplace |
|---|---|---|
| Nightly / daily rate | $175–$220/night per room × 5 rooms | $200/day per apartment × 2–3 apts |
| Occupancy tax | ~12% added per night | Not applicable |
| Per diem | $75/day × 5 people (every meal out) | $45/day × 5 people (full kitchens) |
| Laundry / incidentals | $1,500+ | ~$500 (in-unit laundry included) |
| Timeline flexibility | Penalties for changes | No-penalty extensions or early exit |
| Team quality of life | Hotel fatigue after week 2 | Separate living/sleeping spaces, real kitchen |
| Estimated 8-week total | $77,000 – $92,000+ | $35,500 – $47,000 |
Tell us about your next location and we'll put together a housing plan within 48 hours — no commitment, no pressure, just the information you need to make a smart decision for your team.