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I doubt the family is living in a $40/night motel because it's their first choice.
by modoc 18y ago
I doubt the family is living in a $40/night motel because it's their first choice.
- msluyter 18y agoYeah, I was about to reply with a sarcastic "yeah, they're probably just lazy." But seriously, it's easy to get trapped in a sort of suboptimal maximum in cases like these. Barbara Ehrenreich discusses it in her "Nickled and Dimed." There are a lot of prerequisites to getting an apartment that can stand in the way of someone living on the edge (deposit, up front rent, credit checks, etc...) so you "temporarily" opt for one of these hotels... which are so expensive that it saps your savings for that deposit/up front rent... which perpetuates the cycle. In any event, we don't really have enough context here to make a judgment about this particular case.
- jibiki 18y agoProbably a good business opportunity for a tough bailbondsman/repoman type: find these people and rent to them. (Obviously, you can offer cheaper rent than a hotel, which has a staff, typically.)