So, I was looking at apartments, today. It's a hobby or mine to draw up elaborate floor plans of imaginary houses that I think would be nice to live in. This is an apartment. The idea behind it is simple: attract the kind of tenants that you can charge low rent to, but still maintain the building. Low rent is attractive to everyone. Studio apartments are attractive to a smaller group, but still a fairly large number of people. Decrease the number of apartments, and the demand goes up even higher. With the number of applicants in your favor, you can select for whatever criteria you want. So what would that be? People who will maintain the property for you.

So, why would anyone do such a thing? First, to save money, but additionally to have greater freedom concerning their housing (which is exactly what I want to offer): no breed restrictions, just dog behavior restrictions, the opportunity to change anything in the apartment as long as it does not cause lasting damage or disrupt the structural integrity of the unit or the building (very attractive to the do-it-yourselfers I'm trying to attract). The unit begins as a structural sound unit with fixtures that make sense and are intuitive to fix (which, again, attracts people who care about such details).

Why? Well it's not the money. Rent would net between 1200 and 2000 a month for the entire building. At even minimally livable size, the build would take an eternity to pay back (which is something to think about, because who knows if a bank would lend me the money).

No, If I ran this hobby rental establishment, I would kind of want to have something that provided a real good to my community. Helping people save on rent not only helps those people, but it frees up both their time and their money to dedicate to their communities. Additionally, I support freer living. In an effort to protect themselves (and, in some cases, make more money), many rental locations charge a lot and offer very little flexibility.

Well, here's the drawing:

Interesting hobby. It'd be cool to see it happen in real life. :P
» randomjunk on 2013-06-07 01:56:07

why not? dream it and it will come true...

things i have always wanted to do since young r unfolding now... but i'm still at lost of how to take it further...
» renaye on 2013-06-08 01:24:33

I guess it would kind of be like a commune, only with hippies who actually had useful skills.
» Zanzibar on 2013-06-10 10:52:25

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