Fancy or functional? You need a room not a fridge!
A Windowless - Well dressed-up room!
These days I see many ads for coliving spaces online and in fact, many rooms are dressed up extremely beautiful and are a feast for the eyes. Definitely, these rooms look too pleasing compared to the rooms that we list on our site. Haha.
My real estate agent partner’s regularly advised me to spend extra dollars to dress up the place to appeal to renters so we could rent it at higher prices. Valid advice though but this idea never sank inside me because I’m not convinced with the idea of dressing up a room for various reasons.
It’s my sincere belief a place offered on long tenure need not look too fancy but it must be really functional because tenants seek a fancy place for a short stay and seek a functional place long stay.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not stating all dressed-up places are not functional. I’m only referring to those rooms that are not functional but dressed up well to hide the flaws. For example, when I search for rooms on a few other coliving operator sites and other classified room rental portals I see many rooms that are extremely well dressed and well lit; but when I read the description like “this is a no window room but an air-conditioned room”, that is a red flag to be concerned about.
I don’t know, how you feel about staying in a no window room, but for me, this is extremely uncomfortable. I can’t live in a “no window room”, even for a day. At least a ventilator is a must!
Seriously what is the point of dressing up a room when it’s not even functional? To increase rental yield some operators convert their living room places into a room and in this process, they don’t care if the room has a window or not. The belief people will rent anything if the price is right and such nonfunctional rooms can be rented to desperate renters by just dressing the room up. They just focus on their profit margins and not the wellness of their tenants.
Don’t refer to a place, which is “air-conditioned and windowless”, as a room; simply call it a fridge space!
Will you consider living in a no window room? Share your thoughts below.
At adobha, we don’t offer any such fridge space! We only offer a functional room to facilitate good air and natural light to flow continuously. If you need a real functional space and don’t care about fancy furnishings, talk to us.
