CORT Furniture Rental & Clearance Center

Do you need furniture? Are you a guy? Do you want it to look marginally better than complete shit? Are you a guy? Are you a student, struggling artist, or some other type of person who is so cheap that you’ve debated making your own alcohol in your toilet to save some bucks? Are you a guy? If you’ve answered yes to most of these questions, then Cort is for you!
Right in the middle of central square this showroom has everything you need to fill out an apartment. Cheap ugly couches? Yeah, they’ve got that. Ugly lamps? How many do you want? Hideous art? Of course. The only thing this place doesn’t have is a collection of ugly curtains so you can hide in shame.
Okay, so maybe there is a little hyperbole there. Fact of the matter is, if you’re willing to put in some effort and weed through the real pieces of crap that this place has (i.e. horribly ugly styles, terribly scuffed pieces of leather furniture, etc.) You can actually find some great deals. Best of all, you can haggle on everything since they’re just trying to unload furniture that they can no longer rent. Oh, did I forget to mention its all previously owned furniture? Well, it is. The last two times I’ve had to outfit an apartment I’ve come here, and I’ve always left happy. Granted, I’d never in a million years buy any art from here, but couches, rugs, dressers, etc. are all real steals. Sure you could go to Bob’s or Bernie & Phils, but you pay more for pieces of crap that are less sturdy. Oh – you have to pay for delivery, but you really couldn’t have expected any less since you’re buying previously rented furniture from a store in central square.
Bottom Line: Yeah, you could certainly buy some nice leather couches from Jordan’s and a glass coffee table which screams «I make money and can buy nice things. I’m a responsible adult so don’t run away»; but truth be told, I’ve never had any complaints with my sofa/​loveseat combo which cost me all of $ 300.

Time to furnish that apartment! Maybe you’re a grad student who’s upgrading his life! Maybe you’re a divorced guy who has finally realized that living the bachelor life might require something better than a craigslist futon! In any case, Cort Furniture can probably help you on the cheap. Selling re-​conditioned furniture that was previously rented, they’re trying to move stuff, and move it fast. You can find very reasonably priced sofas, loveseats, chairs and dining room sets, not to mention rugs, artwork, end tables and curios. (a.k.a. whatnots) The only drawback, really, is that a lot of the stuff is banged up, so you’ve really got to look over the inventory carefully.
Pro tip 1: wait till the manager is in, and try to haggle. The redshirts don’t have the deal-​making power, but the well-​dressed guys do. Sometimes they’re desperate to make room and will let stuff go even cheaper than marked. Pro tip 2: Check in on Unilocal for some pretty good instant deals!
In any case, be advised that the delivery company is a separate entity from the store, and you’ll have to pay them when they deliver. Our delivery service was pretty outstanding. Good luck with your new place!

We used the option of rent furniture with Cort. They took like a week to deliver. During that time I slept on the floor, on a inflable mattress. But that was not a problem at all for me.
Then they finally delivered. A couple of days later I started to get some allergic looking signs. I didn’t know what it is. With time I realise and learned about it. I had bed bugs in my bed. I followed some recomendations, like cleaning all my clothes with hot water and using the dryer at high temoeratures, and then putting the stuff on zipploc bags.
The point is, as I talked to Cort, they took like a week to react and then they sayed, I have to pay them 500 dollar, and thye will come AFTER I show a certification that fumigation was done.
I think this is abusive of their part. I didn’t have problems sleeping on the floor. It is evident the bed bugs came in the bed provided by Cort. I don’t see why I have to pay them this 500 dollars, and additionally pay for the fumigation, which is approx. 1200 dollars.
Please do not use their furniture rental service!

Great purchasing experience.. .not so great delivery experience. Bought my sofa and chair set on Thursday and had it delivered next day for my move. I dude I dealt with was great and even remembered me from my previous visit. They will negotiate on the price with you so don’t be afraid to ask; I was able to knock 150 bucks off of the original price. Overall great purchasing experience.
The delivery service itself was good although the pricing is a little dicey. They say its 75/​hour for delivery, but when they delivered my stuff they said they had to charge me 150 because they had to use the stairs in my building and that that was extra. Well if i had gotten more sleep and were less dehydrated I would have argued. So get your own delivery service. There are a plethora of honest dudes on CL wanting to move this kind of shit for peanuts in comparison.

I am so happy with Cort. As another reviewer put it, this was the perfect transition from craigslist shopping. I decided to furnish my apartment ‘for real’ but was on a tight budget and Cort had the answer. Selection is not huge, but is relatively varied and the prices are really great for high quality furniture (admittedly used). While a few of the items on sale are noticeably worn, most of it is ‘like-​new’ condition.
The sales staff is really helpful– Thank you Daryl– and made the whole experience easy. I actually went there, bought a few things, checked out some other furniture places, then came back when I realized how great the deals were.
I used their delivery service and had no problems. They were nice, professional and got the job done at a reasonable price.

I went to Cort for some furniture for my new apartment. I saw some bedroom sets that I liked, but they seemed a little expensive for their condition and one of the legs on the couch I liked was bent. I asked the salesman if the couch could be fixed. He said probably not, but that there was another identical couch in the back.
I went back to Cort a few days later. miraculously the bedroom sets were on sale and the couch’s leg had been fixed. I was very excited about my new furniture. I would recommend getting furniture there. However, I absolutely recommend NOT USING THEIR DELIVERY SERVICE.
The delivery service is unprofessional and overpriced!!! I was told delivery was $ 75 an hour. To me this sounded like this was the price for getting my furniture from truck to my living room, which took (with all their difficulties) about 1.5 hours. The delivery service was really slow (it was basically a man and his extremely inexperienced son, who did not seem very excited about carrying furniture up the stairs in the steamy Boston summer). At the end, the delivery service charged me $ 200 for the time spent also wrapping and packing the furniture at Cort. If the delivery service had been professional, they probably could have done the same task in half the time.
If you choose to buy your furniture here, find you own delivery service. For the time and money their delivery service cost, I could have gotten much nicer furniture.

Cort does corporate furniture rentals downstairs and sells clearance furniture upstairs. Good place to get decent furniture on a budget. You can furnish your first apartment here, yet it’s not stuff you’ll want to throw out as soon as you’ve got some money. I got a comfortable, nice looking sofa for $ 299 and we’ve been happy with it for a year now.

This is a great option if you’re looking to make that transition from craigslist /​IKEA flat-​pack furniture to – hold your breath — REAL furniture!
They don’t have a huge selection at any time, but what they do have rotates fairly quickly, so there’s some really good finds to be had if you’re willing to keep up and make a couple trips. The staff are also helpful and willing to keep you updated on the phone if you are looking for a particular piece. One word of caution: since the furniture they sell has been rented previously, be sure to check for scratches and damages before buying!

I’m cheap, let me put that out there…
That being said, I also like nice stuff — or at least decent stuff. Now that I’m no longer in college and lounging on blow up furniture is no longer acceptable I come here. This is a used furniture store right in Central Square.
I know what you’re thinking — used furniture is gross, it has bedbugs, someone probably peed on it. But this is decent stuff. It’s furniture used in hotels and corporate housing. It’s sturdy, good to look at and WAY cheaper than Jordan’s, Bernie and Phyl’s and Jennifer convertibles.
I always seem to find just what I want right when I go in, yesterday it was a sofabed. Sit down a few, see one in the corner. Looks nice — pretty comfy, $ 399? Can you do it for $ 350 with delivery? You can! SOLD! Another reason I like this place is you can negotiate prices and delivery is done by an outside company that is usually pretty reasonable. Check it out if you’re looking to furnish your apartment without spending an arm and a leg!