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RENT RESISTANCE - CALIFORNIA

Landlords feel like they can do whatever it takes to make more money, whether it means throwing your cancer-struck grandma out onto the street or fining you a hundred dollars for paying rent late. So why do they think you're the asshole when you don't pay rent?

They'll tell you to your face: because they're running a business, and they want to make as much money as they can.

Well, they might be running a business, but we're running our lives. Why shouldn't we make as much money as we can? We don't need to be struck by cancer or lose our jobs or anything else. Why should we? They never have any 'reason' besides 'I own this property, so I get to make money off of it'. You rent it, so make money off of it.

STEP ONE, get a lease one way or another. The ideal way to do this is to step in on the lease of someone who wouldn't mind you doing this, e.g. a foreign student who's leaving soon. Of course, these opportunities are far apart and few between. You might have to end up, e.g. overstaying a 30-day AirBNB lease. The key is to make sure the landlord has as little an idea of who they are renting to as possible. Keep in mind, you need to stay for at least 30 days for this to work.

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