All Forum Posts by: Paul Sandhu

I let people shoot guns and hunt deer on my property.  Other times I'll drive by their house in my 'Vette with the T-tops out and let them take it for a spin.  It gets to 120 mph with a touch of the gas pedal.  Put the pedal to the floor and it's 160 mph.  I drive around in it with that shirt you see in my avatar.

Duplex's don't work that well.  Too much banging from the headboards.

wtf is the seller being retained as the property manager?

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What about a really nice box with weather proofing or a tarp.

Or give people a machetee, flint, steel and a bag of rice and sell it as the Survivor Experience or Survivor training camp.

Tomorrow I was going to make a post called "Arbitraging a Rent-A-Tent".  It's where you rent a commercial tent (circus, wedding, etc) and put it in the back yard of an STR.  You put a bunch of cots and sleeping bags in the tent.  The people sleeping in the tent have access to the house for cooking and the bathroom.

I use the biological method with my thermostats.

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Will they have a place to go the bathroom or any running water? That make a big difference

They will have access to the house for the kitchen and bathroom.  It's all co-workers. They are welders, pipefitters and boilermakers.  They work 12 hours a day, shower, eat, sleep, repeat.  

I knew some guys that would rent a U-Haul and put a bunch of mattresses in there to sleep on during Mardi Gras.  A large U-Haul would sleep 6-10 people.  I'm thinking about renting some U-Haul's and parking them in the back yard of some of my STRs.  I'd put beds in the cargo area.  The house and the U-Haul would be rented to as many guys as possible.  They would all be co-workers for the same company.  12 hour day shift and 12 hour night shift.  The workers sleeping in the U-Haul would have access to the kitchen and bathroom in the house.  I could run a cable TV to the box truck and set up an outdoor shower in the back yard.  How much would you charge people for sleeping in the U-Haul?

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Apparently there is a federal law prohibiting this practice.

 https://www.simplyss.com/blog/...

Laws prohibit a lot of things. Doesn't mean they don't get done...

I see signs on the side of the road that tell you how fast you can drive.  That law gets broken all the time.  I could rent one of those blue Porta Potties and set it outside 4 storage units.  I know that there is supposed to be one potty for every 8 people at a worksite.  I could put 2 beds in each of the 4 storage units and they will have a place to use the bathroom.

I'm with you, my man! Bunk beds, Bluetooth, TVS, coffee maker....maybe a communal keg?

 How about some "dancers"?  I had some guys renting a place from me that hired some dancers from a club to come over to the house they were renting from me to perform for 2 hours.  2 dancers, a security guy, $300 for 2 hours.  They didn't want to spend money buying beer at the gentleman's club.

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Quote from @John Carbone:

Apparently there is a federal law prohibiting this practice.

 https://www.simplyss.com/blog/...

Laws prohibit a lot of things. Doesn't mean they don't get done...

I see signs on the side of the road that tell you how fast you can drive.  That law gets broken all the time.  I could rent one of those blue Porta Potties and set it outside 4 storage units.  I know that there is supposed to be one potty for every 8 people at a worksite.  I could put 2 beds in each of the 4 storage units and they will have a place to use the bathroom.

You know what a storage unit is.  Those storage buildings all in a row with a bunch of garage doors where you can rent out an individual unit to store your stuff.  A person can put some rudimentary furniture in there and maybe a tv, a microwave and a portable toilet.  They have a power outlet and a ceiling light.  The monthly rent for the storage unit is normally about $40.  How much do you think a person can get per night for a storage unit?  There are only about 250 motel rooms in this town.  Starting in January there will be about 1500 people coming here for a major industrial job.