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Depends on how quickly you can re-rent. If you sign a long lease, the landlord typically offers something lower than "market rate" in exchange for lower risk and less time un-rented.

One thing he doesn't say is what percentage of the time the room was rented; he only says that it wasn't always making him money because he and his friends occasionally stayed there.




That's true about re-renting. I'm guessing he chose AirBnB over traditional renting so that he could stay at the place once in a while too.




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