I had to "relocate" from home to a hotel for a work-related threat. 3-months in the hotel - completely paid for - sucked balls. No kitchen, people above and below at all/times hours, no conveniences of home. Constantly going up and down the stairs and elevators. I've despised hotels ever since.
I lived in an Embassy Suites hotel for 6 weeks when I relocated for a job (paid for by the company) and I fricking loved it. Id get up, go downstairs and eat a freshly cooked omellete and some coffee in their nice atrium. Go to work, come back 'home' and hit their bar for happy hour. That was good enough for dinner most nights Back in my suite the beds made, linens changed, garbage gone. Sit in my living room reading or whatever. Pretty sure it cost more than $1k/month and thus was 20 years ago. That was a pretty good lifestyle.
FWIW, this was me. Worked for Google first job right out of college, they put me up in a hotel near Stanford for a month to stabilize me a little bit while I onboarded, found housing, and so on. This was back in 2005 when the perks in SV were outrageous, but yeah, it was pretty sweet.
I had to "relocate" from home to a hotel for a work-related threat. 3-months in the hotel - completely paid for - sucked balls. No kitchen, people above and below at all/times hours, no conveniences of home. Constantly going up and down the stairs and elevators. I've despised hotels ever since.
I had to "relocate" from home to a hotel for a work-related threat. 3-months in the hotel - completely paid for - sucked balls. No kitchen, people above and below at all/times hours, no conveniences of home. Constantly going up and down the stairs and elevators. I've despised hotels ever since.
The Home2 Suites by Hilton are actually pretty nice. I stayed in the Tallahassee one for World XC. It felt more like an apartment with a separate living room and full kitchen. I loved it. Very comfortable, good breakfast bar, nice workout room, pool, laundry, and within walking distance to restaurants and even a grocery store. I could happily stay in a place like that for an extended time.
Hotels like this in Texas do monthly rates like this because they will rent to undocumented immigrants or oil and gas workers who are doing turnarounds at refineries or building out a rig, etc. And in Beaumont, Texas it is actually a huge rip off. For $1,000 a month in Beaumont, you can get a nice 600-700 sq ft 1 bed apartment with a pool, exercise room, fenced in parking, etc. That amount of rent is actually on the higher end for apartments in Beaumont. The reason apartments are so cheap is because Beaumont is a dump.
We stayed in an extended stay hotel for 3 months between the sale of our house and the purchase of another. As an empty nester it was great. Most of my friends were envious of the minimalist lifestyle. I had a storage unit for things like bikes etc. I wish I could recall what I paid but it wasn't $1k. It was a new Homes 2 Suites in a nice area
Why indeed? maybe some people don't want to throw a grand plus down the drain and instead save or make payments on some home and property, now or in the future. some people do look to the future. my home is about 32 years old. it is paid off. purchase price was about $235,000 plus interest on the mortgage, blah, blah, blah. it is currently appraised at $990,000.
Why indeed? maybe some people don't want to throw a grand plus down the drain and instead save or make payments on some home and property, now or in the future. some people do look to the future. my home is about 32 years old. it is paid off. purchase price was about $235,000 plus interest on the mortgage, blah, blah, blah. it is currently appraised at $990,000.
Just think of the sweet hotels you can stay in with that 650!
-Really I just wanted to point out the vrbo pop up ads that appeared when I opened this thread. Cracks me up.