Rental Property That Charges An Additional $200 Per Month For Working From Home Divides The Internet

A rental property charging an further $200 per period to tenants who work from location has divided nan internet.

The 535-square ft Bay Area cottage was listed for $3,250 a period pinch electricity, water, heat, aerial conditioning and net included. But nan further distant worker interest raised eyebrows, pinch Reddit users calling it “insane” and “absurd.”

“You’re not expected to really inhabit nan abstraction you're paying $3,250 a period for, don’t you cognize that?!” 1 personification sarcastically wrote connected a station successful nan subreddit r/bayarea detailing nan expenses that matched nan location listing.

“They very apt conscionable want much money and this is an excuse to declare it will beryllium covering nan overhead of utilities that will spell up. Which they won’t spell up $200+, but whatever. Any measurement to compression much money out,” different Reddit personification wrote.

But others were much sympathetic to nan landlord, arguing that renters would usage much utilities moving astatine location alternatively than going into nan office.

“Working from location decidedly adds to my inferior costs,” 1 Reddit personification wrote.

“Yeah its costly af, only bully point is that h2o utilities & energy are included successful rent. it does not look truthful bad. you tin blast nan ac/heater each time and time off nan lights on,” different said.

The location is an accessory dwelling unit, which is simply a secondary spot connected nan aforesaid spot arsenic a main house. The one-bedroom, one-bathroom furnished location is located successful nan Northgate vicinity of Walnut Creek, California.

According to Rent.com, wherever nan listing was posted, nan spot was past disposable connected Monday, suggesting it has either been rented aliases taken disconnected nan market.

The Independent has requested remark from nan listing’s constituent of contact.

With much Americans moving from location than earlier nan COVID-19 pandemic, it’s imaginable an further distant worker interest could go much normalized.

But it seems to person not reached crossed nan state yet, astatine slightest not for Chicago distant worker Christopher Williams.

“Work-from-home fee? Nah, I’ve ne'er heard of that,” he told ABC 7.

“If my landlord switches to that method, I really don’t activity from home,” renter Cody Hall jokingly told nan outlet.

Some Reddit users besides questioned really a landlord would cognize whether their tenant worked from home.

“How do they moreover constabulary that?” 1 personification wrote connected nan r/mildyinfuriating subreddit.

The mean costs of rent successful nan Bay Area — America’s tech manufacture hub — is $3,495 per month, aliases astir 75 percent higher than nan nationalist average, according to Zillow.