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In article <42i8c4$dng@crl11.crl.com>, Noel Susskind <slyhorse@crl.com> wrote:
>sco@mindspring.com wrote:
>: Thats why a friend of mine just purchased two more houses to fix up and 
>: rent week-to-week so they will be available to rent during the olympics.
>: She will just increase the rent for those weeks to the amount she 
>: wants/expects to get.
>
>This is the sort of thing that gets you sleazy tenants and I call it 
>slumlording.  What sort of tenant would you expect who will rent weekly 
>and then be willing to move on such a short notice.

 Tenants who might rent weekly:
   - People who are literally one paycheck away from homelessness, and
       can't get a month's rent together all at once
   - People who are in town temporarily on business and need a place
       to crash
   - People who are between longer term situations (eg waiting for
       a house closing, or waiting for an apartment to become available,
       or having renovations done to their house)
   - People who don't derive their "center of stability" from where
       they crash

 You call it slumlording, I call it providing a service and meeting
a need, in the noble pursuit of putting your roof over other people's
heads.  (Slumlording sometimes refers to those landlords who make
their return on as little investment per unit as possible, in
contradistinction to "gouging" or "conspicuous consumption".)
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