• veroxii@lemmy.world
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    Shit’s fucked. Could be a scam too. Apparently common on Facebook at the moment people advertise a room or something like this and then when people start messaging they ask for the first week payment to secure it before everyone else.

    So they get a dozen or so people’s $200.

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    I don’t think listing is meant as somewhere to live (I hope) I think it’s meant for someone to rent to go on a roadtrip/camping with

    Edit: I missed the long term part at the bottom :(

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      Seeing how the rent is on a weekly basis I think so too. Drop 200 bucks and take out the family to the sea for a nice camping trip

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        Seeing how the rent is on a weekly basis I think so too.

        Seeing as you’re from another instance I’m guessing you’re not from Australia, and came across this thread on /All?

        Weekly rent is, for some weird reason, the norm here. I know most of the world does it monthly, and frankly I think that makes more sense. But it’s not how we do things in Aus.

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          I like that our rent and our pay are both weekly, makes it easier to manage as for me that money is just canceled out. Makes budgeting real simple

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            I think it’s just a matter of what are you used to.

            We have monthly rent and salary here, and I cannot imagine how I would know how much money I have if I just got 1/4th of my usual pay. (Mortgage, unemployment benefits, pensions, utility bills, basically everything is monthly). And we also don’t negotiate yearly salary, nobody knows their yearly salary at all. The job listings are also for monthly.

            I don’t know why you would have weekly rent/pay, yearly salary listing for a job, yet monthly bills and mortgages/loans.

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    remember that this is easily fixable, all it takes is the government funding housing construction.

    Housing issues are a problem that the politicians decide we should have, stop giving them your votes.

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      Fixable, yes; easily, no. One of the problems is land availability near services and transportation. The second is zoning laws which are not aligned with creating affordable housing. Both if those are processes which will take decades to truly solve, even with consistent, continuous vision and plan.

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    Am I poor or desperate enough to think that 800/mth is on the high end of reasonable?

    Although paying rent every week like they do in Australia is crazy to me still.

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    $800/month?

    This would easily be $2000/month in BC, I’ve seen tons of ads like this

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    Yeesh. I wonder how many people are doing this, renting out their caravans like this.

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      I know a few people living in them and similar odds and ends. Lots of trips into the house for amenities, some pissing into a jug because the walk is too long for regular bathroom trips

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    Is Brisbane this bad? Have heard of syd, melb and cbr being like this but somehow assumed things were netter up north.

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      Yeah it is, most rooms are 200+ in the inner suburbs, 3 bedrooms are easily 6-800/wk. I was somewhat depressed by the number of people bombarding me with offers when we had a spare room to fill.

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      Sadly it is. I regularly go into Brisbane and have seen the amount of folks sleeping rough at least triple in the list couple of years.