genius idea
most people aren't at their apartment during the day and most people aren't at their office during the night. one space - office at day and apartment at night. why is wework not already doing this?
sounds like a logistical nightmare. In college I had the idea of getting coffee shops to double as social gathering sites for drunk kids at night. Wasn't even a runner-up.
i was watching some youtube videos of guys in thailand living in these conference room sized micro apartments and thinking about how office building already have communal bathrooms and communal kitchens in many cases and was listening to a podcast with one of the lyft cofounders talking about how they started lyft because cars weren't getting used 96% of the time and office space/apartment buildings aren't that same kind of extreme but also the space within apartments and offices is underused. i agree with the logistical nightmare point but smart access control solves some of those problems (certain areas only accessible by certain parties at certain times)
but it kind of makes sense why am i renting out all this space to only use it half the time
For ex, the apartment unit doubles up as a conference room but the closet within the unit where the resident stores his/her clothes has a smart lock on it so that it can only be accessed by the resident and not by the office tenant
Would just like to point out this is the same genius who started the "In Defense of Jared Kushner" thread.
thanks for pointing that out broski. but it was actually "in defense of jared kushner".
when Moelis analysts get their 30 minute nap under their desk in a sleeping bag every night it’s basically the same thing
I think most people want some distance between their home and their office. It's something psychological...
Also some office neighborhoods can be dead/lacking amenities and some residential areas can be tough to get to, will be hard to find a neighborhood that is excellent for both uses.
Finally if you do build this and lease it up, who is ultimately going to buy it? Apartment guys might be weirded out and office guys might be weirded out so you might have trouble finding a buyer, especially the kind of core buyer that blindly pays up for things...
hmm good points good points i appreciate the reply. i wasn't even thinking about people living in the same building as the building where they worked was more thinking about efficient use of space and having randoms come live in your office/randoms come work in your apartment. but maybe that is something to think about. i know the raikes program at university of nebraska is set up so that all of the classes are in the same place where you live so you could go a long time without ever having to go outside lol
I think there's some way to do this properly, but for many businesses it just doesn't make sense to have a bunch of people in at night, thinking along the lines of companies already needing keycards for most floors... and then what about the PM who likes to come in at 4am and start doing pushups? So I think this is out for established companies.
Perhaps a platform that allows smaller renters to share the cost of the floor through some kind of arrangement might be more attractive. In that case, how would the landlord fit into the equation? Is the landlord the one making the arrangement, and if so how does that affect the terms of the rental agreement for the office? Or you could have a designated space within the floor just for the sleepers.. And don't buildings have different legal requirements for office space and residential space?
Sorry for ramble, didn't bother organizing.
Telecommuting solves same problem no? Yes there’s still an office but it’s a lot smaller bc ppl are usually at home
Doesn’t zoning make this idea dead in the water for most locations?
It's all fun and games until you roll into work monday morning to find somebody who went on a bender the night before and puked all over your office and is still laying passed out on the floor. Or better yet, gramps died in his sleep on Friday night and has been slowly decomposing for a couple days.
Better yet, how about building infill office and wrap MF together with shared parking......
I think this concept is out there in a rent per hour type of format - not explicitly for renting residential as office during the day. NYT did a piece on this back in 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/realestate/renting-your-home-out-by-…
This could save America by solving the housing crisis
You're just full of hot takes lately aren't you?
Yes
People are getting high AF working from home during the day, I see
lol, so you don't think that this idea is genius then?
I know it's not a genius idea because you posted it on the internet for all to see.
I know that it is genius because most everyone who replied has said that it is not genius
Accountingmajor I know this is you
No one on this website could accuse me of being a fan of Donald Trump, but what in god's name is this post, why is it in response to a year old thread, and why is it in the real estate forum?
I think wework may have tried this already. Adam Had like welivd, we play, etc... the we company
There are many of these spaces in NYC. They suck and living next to them sucks.
Why do they suck? Like how a baby sucks?
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