renting

Are you renting out that excess space to someone that can't afford it?

If car use moves from ownership to renting, then many people can spread the cost of the sensors.

Airbnb is well aware that many of their hosts are renting illegally.

With a consulting company, you're renting access to brains.

But you're not buying movies from them, you're renting them, and it's never represented as anything else.

One of the things that he's critically missed is that it's unfair to only compare the price of buying vs. the price of renting today.

For example, if the police show up after a noise complaint and then find you renting out your place, only then are you in extra trouble.

Ex politicians wield political and corporate influence and a board seat is a way of renting that influence.

> Airbnb is well aware that many of their hosts are renting illegallyTheir entire business model, in fact, depends on it.

What really gets me going is the realization of how much more value people would produce if they could own their lives outright instead of renting it from one boss to the next.

I guess a good real world comparison is renting vs. owning, if you own your home you can paint the walls, install a new floor or turn an entire wall into a television.

This is one of the patterns the state of NY is using against Airbnb while Airbnb is arguing that the service is intended for people occasionally renting out their primary residence.

When you're renting you're limited to very insignificant and inconsequential things, you can move around your sofas, have red plates instead of blue and get a new desk, but what sort of control is that?

Absolutely insane!Every time I hear people complaining about "throwing away money" by renting, and how they would rather put that money into a house, I want to hold them by the shoulders and shake them violently.