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LillyHaven

Small studio spaces in buildings with empty space. Affordably priced and cooperatively owned

Watercolor Dear Illustration
Watercolor Peach Blossoms.

A rental space where tenants set the rules. Could be:

A Chill Sanctuary

A room where people can go if they need to cool down for a couple hours. A “just need time to think” safe space for people having a tough time.

A last-minute place to sleep

Residents of apartment buildings set rules and screen tenants. This helps people stay safe I think and lowers the cost of needing a place to sleep?

Low-cost art studios

People who live in the buildings set the rules. For example, as someone who makes a lot of noise...

“Let’s Make Some Noise!” Studio

There should probably be a basement studio or ground-floor unit if I’m going to try to open up a studio. Tenants set the working hours and can complain by knocking on the door because it’s cooperatively owned.

Quiet Studios/

Chill Santcuaries

Study rooms, work rooms, or places where people can work on forms of art that don’t make much noise.

Overnight stays require business planning. Here, I need some help but the general idea is...

Overnight stays require business planning. Here, I need some help but the general idea is...

Resident-controlled

Not all cities will want this kind of business and that’s fine. Not all apartment complexes or tenants will want this either. That’s fine.

Airbnbs are convenient but I was pretty frustrated with rent prices going up.

This controls supply I think?

People who aren’t home owners could still split rental income?

I’m not sure if this is legal but in theory if you rent an apartment, your landlord agrees to let there be a cooperative studio rental space in an empty unit - well it’s a cheat code to being able to have rental income if you can’t afford a house? I think? TBD