I'm too young to have been there but I've read a bit about how during the first .com bubble landlords would routinely accept stock instead of rent. In fact, I believe an early cash-strapped PayPal did just that and the landlords went on to become pretty successful in their own right.
Relevant article about the landlords who also rented out to Logitech, Google, Danger, and Milo: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/technology/14landlord.html...