Nowadays the laws protecting tenants make landlords much less keen to let rooms cheaply to poor strangers.
Even Cubans who let rooms legally get security visits in the early hours to check on their guests.
Last year around 800 homeowners on the island let rooms, with 3, 224 beds being taken up over the fortnight.
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Those who do not register at a hotel or a private home licensed to let rooms are tracked down.
Yet unlike office blocks or shopping malls, which sign leases with tenants for ten years or more, hotels have to let their rooms by the night.
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Plenty remember Cuba's first, limited opening to private enterprise in the 1990s (following the fourth party congress, in 1991), when people were allowed to let out rooms and run their own restaurants.
Chat rooms let readers hash out their favorite ways to cook lobster, behave in a Filipino home or rappel off a cliff, and Ehow gets a 10% to 25% cut of the ads that run nearby.
Schober remembers a ticker dubbed "Network News, " a kind of virtual community newsletter that would let people know when certain chat rooms had a special guest or were discussing certain topics.
Often meeting rooms or lunch rooms are places where organizations let their personalities shine through a little more.
Eight years later, she's on a smaller label, plays smaller rooms, and releases evocative albums that let her considerable ambitions soar.
"Not so long ago this campaign was written off, but in your homes in Iowa, in community centers, in VFW posts, in restaurants where you never let me stop and eat, in homes, living rooms and barns where we gathered across this great state, you listened, " Kerry said.
They would let the Olive Garden come and stay in all the rooms (small place-maybe 20 rooms) and they would use the restaurant (closed to the public-again off season) as a classroom for maybe an hour here or there and talk about spices or fresh produce for a minute before going site seeing all day.
Four Collier County police officers stepped out and began to confer, then approach, by which time he had let the blinds snap back and was rushing toward the rear rooms.
Throughout our visit, Vincent kept asking the kind NASA public affairs officers if there were "clean rooms" or "white rooms" he could photograph in, and they were generous enough to let him navigate his way through a handful.
Boyer has extra reason to be grateful -- the owners of the hotel have decided they will let her and the other evacuees stay indefinitely, even though they too have many other reservations for the rooms.
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