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Rental Guest Bed or Book Shelf?

K S.
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So I have a 64" pocket in a new 1bd cabin build that can fit an integrated vertical twin murphey bed in the living room with side dressor or a row of book shelfs + cab. My question what the best value would be between the two. 

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Evan Polaski
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Is this a long term rental?  I would vote bookshelf, since in long term rentals, typically, you want the least amount of things you will need to fix, as possible.

If short term rental, than Murphey bed would be my vote, typically.

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    It will be month/month and LTR since the ADUs forbid me to rent short term at least for now. Laws seem to be loosening up all the time.

    I get your point about less things to fix assuming someone is using them. I thought it might be looked at as a 2 bedroom if college kids use it to split the rent or something.

    On the other hand. Nobody reads that many books or even has books. So I'm kinda stuck.

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    I think the bookshelf looks better and people will put more than books on it too if they don't have any so it will get decorated.