{"id":139049,"date":"2023-09-04T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/room-to-rent-for-eight-days-welcome-to-the-meme-worthy-world-of-sublet-britain-daisy-jones\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:18:36","slug":"room-to-rent-for-eight-days-welcome-to-the-meme-worthy-world-of-sublet-britain-daisy-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/room-to-rent-for-eight-days-welcome-to-the-meme-worthy-world-of-sublet-britain-daisy-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Room to rent \u2026 for eight days: welcome to the meme-worthy world of sublet Britain | Daisy Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMore and more renters are advertising properties for bafflingly short lengths of time. But it\u2019s not as ridiculous as it soundsBy now, especially if you\u2019re a city-dweller in your 20s and 30s, you\u2019ve probably noticed one of these posts going around social media. You\u2019ve probably, in fact, seen at least three this week. You may have even posted one yourself. \u201cLooking for someone to take over my room in Dalston for two weeks in late September!\u201d they might begin, before reading something like \u201c\u00a3850, bills not included!\u201d The text usually overlays an image of the room in question, someone\u2019s stuff stacked neatly around it. \u201cGoing to Ibiza\/New York\/Italy and looking for someone ASAP! No time wasters, plz! DM for more deets!\u201dOver the past couple of years, such posts have become more common and increasingly a subject of ridicule. As one meme on popular Instagram account @real_housewives_of_clapton reads: \u201cHi am looking for someone to rent my room for 8 hours while I go out for a bit of lunch and see an exhibition. Lovely house. All bills included.\u201d The length of a \u201csublet\u201d \u2013 a term that used to evoke a multiple-month stay, or someone taking over a room before the original tenant could escape the lease \u2013 appears to be getting shorter and shorter. In one recent post, someone was advertising a sublet on their student halls for nine days, presumably because they didn\u2019t need to start university yet. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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