Motels as homes?

I never knew how it worked either

Perhaps off topic but a lot of New York area hotels are offering free rooms to RN's from other States who signed on to come here for the current mess going on
I think that's a pretty nice thing

I have known people who have had fire or flood damage to their houses and they have had to stay in a hotel during repairs.

For a few awful weeks endow last summer, I thought I was going to have to move into a motel. Couldn't find a rental and all the AirBnBs that allowed dogs were booked.

Yes, they do. They give you some kind of price break the longer you stay, just like the do if you stay a week as opposed to one night.

Here in Reno it was common until fairly recently, many have been torn down, but several are still around. It is a step up from homelessness. They are rented by the week, as I think the regulations governing motels and apartments are different.

Here in crusty poopy Fort Wayne, you can stay at a cheap hooker riddled hotel for $110/week. So about 460-470 a month. And you don't have to worry about any utilities.

I imagine the rooms are pretty gross, but it is probably cheaper then a cruddy mobile home especially if you have to rent the lot you are on too.

If my only choices were a crappy mobile home (new ones are somewhat nice) and a motel I'd probably pick the motel. Cheap living.

It's common among the poorer working poor, the people who can't save up first and last month's rent and get an apartment or long-term rental. Of course the motels cost more than low-end rentals, and keep a poor person from being able to save enough to rent a place, it's one of the things that keeps the poor one paycheck away from homelessness.

And I wish I'd known that when I booked a night at an Extended Stay motel outside of Denver, I had no idea that place was one step up from a homeless shelter!