Posted on 08/13/2019 1:23:16 PM PDT by ctdonath2
Bay Area start-up Rent the Backyard is making new room in dense cities by collaborating with homeowners who've got a little extra acreage. The company will install a prefab studio apartment on unused land behind your home, handle all the permitting required to do so, find a worthy tenant to rent the unit, and pay you 50% of the profits for providing the space—all for zero up-front costs. They’re partnering with companies like NODE, who make sustainable, carbon-neutral homes that can be installed in just a few days. Utilities will hook up to the property's principal dwelling, and they'll be metered and reimbursed. Participants can expect to add roughly $10k to their annual income (dependent on the going rate for a studio apartment in your city), and cities will get new affordable housing in previously unused space.
(Excerpt) Read more at dwell.com ...
I ESPECIALLY like that it (or an easy variant thereof) gives an easy excellent response to "but homelessness!": if you are concerned admit helping the homeless, then with about an hour of effort you can do something about it. This has meaning as a "tent city" just arose in my town (soon vanished), and lots of people reacted with "oh those poor folks" - I'm sympathetic to the poor, and think those concerned should personally do something about it, put up or shut up. By having an "instant rental guest house" service, anyone anywhere on the sociopolitical spectrum has no excuse to not do something concrete about it themselves.
Is it a permitted use?
What could go wrong?
Someone needs to call Fineswine and Piglosi, they got room for Hundreds each in their Backyards.
^ THIS
They should suspend the rent requirements
and call them Stay-Free Mini-Pads.
Therein lies the rub.
And I find your premise that if one doesn't do this one should "shut up" obnoxious. The taxpayers have been "putting up" for decades with massive tax increases to solve the problem and it is exponentially WORSE now. Don't get snippy because we don't want a homeless person, who is almost guaranteed to be mentally ill or an addict, on our property and close to us and our possessions.
What these clowns are trying to do is rent your backyard you capitalist pig to a poor illegal alien or homeless crazie. Mind you they didnt even mention “dog house”.
That’s up to the “instant rental property” business to figure out, part of the “zero effort” business model.
You get half the rent
Each month, you’ll get a check or bank transfer for half your unit’s profit.
Free money .... watch the rush of Hollywood pimps and whores, Marxist State Media pimps and whores, the Progressive wealthy and regular Progressive political scum rush to get these built on their property to be subsidized by the government giving them billions in free money!!! /s/
So the company will even find the tenant for you. How nice! Maybe you’ll get a pleasant old gentleman who will help the yard work.
But then again, you might get a drug addict who will break into your house over and over again, just for the hell of it. And good luck trying to evict him.
“What these clowns are trying to do is rent your backyard you capitalist pig to a poor illegal alien or homeless crazie. Mind you they didnt even mention “dog house”.”
Yep. And no way could you get them out after they did it.
this is a good idea.
The idea has potential - that’s a pretty stylish “ADU” and not what most think of when “tiny house” is mentioned. Making connections to water and sewer lines is not trivial however and substantial cost could be involved if new services have to be run. Even gas, electric, and maybe cable are not trivial upfront expenses.
I’d guess there would be as big a demand for these as “grandma apartments” or guest houses as for the stated purpose.
Most liberals talk a lot but when it comes down to brass tacks, can’t find their hammers.
Ahhhhh hahahahahahah! *breathe*
Ahhhhh hahahahahahaha! *breathe*
That was hysterical!
Is this a ROLCON piece?
Progressives might just realize the reality they’re trying to shove on others, when they go NIMBY.
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