As I looked for a house to rent I was surprised how a one-bedroom condo in downtown was the same price as a four-bedroom house only five miles away.

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The company proffers some zany homes for rent as well, like a conch seashell-shaped house in Isla Mujeres, Mexico and a converted railway car in Montana.

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Airbnb was founded in 2008 with a simple concept: Connect people who have space to rent -- anything from an extra bedroom to a whole house -- with those who are looking for a place to stay.

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The court held that banks would never find suitable places in crowded downtown business districts unless they could have the right to rent out surplus space acquired in a good-faith effort to house their operations.

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The post-war slum clearance programmes and the government inspired boom in council house building provided new homes to rent for millions of families.

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In the afternoon, we rent a little local home in one of the prettiest backstreets, a tiny town-house filled with heavily lacquered antique furniture, glowering sepia photographs of ancestors and an aged television perfect for watching equally vintage Turkish soap operas.

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Great Dawley Parish Council is expected to rent out its existing offices at Dawley House, on Burton Street, to provide a "much-needed" income.

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Just as the price of a share should equal the discounted present value of future profits, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership either rental income or the implicit rent saved by an owner-occupier.

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Just as the value of a company's shares should equal the discounted present value of its future profits, so the price of a house should reflect the future benefits of ownership, either as rental income or in the rent saved by an owner-occupier.

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