Why don’t they just have a renter and use that money to hire someone to come by and look after the pet. Assigning that role to the person renting would be improbable due to the the possibility of them having jobs and their lives to live, general up keep is a standard for any place.
My hot take: they want a live in nanny for the dog that pays them for the privilege of being a nanny to said dog. Edit: and all the other farm animals too! (I forgot them. Likely what a "renter" would do too.)
Anyone willing to "rent" for only 2 months is going to turn your house into a flop house, a crack house or a whore house and you are going to have to take them to court to get rid of them then rebuild your house from the foundation up. Hire a fucking house sitter ffs.
Not to mention they want someone to rent for a whole 2 months? The amount of people willing to pack all their shit after 2 months... but also willing to do all these tasks is like.. 2 people on the planet tops. A much better option would be "800 a month gets you the room and full access to the kitchen/garage, however we require assistance with the animals when we are away"
The amount of work that needs to be done around the house is worth what they're charging in rent. They should offer this as a gig. "Will let you stay in our house for these days if you care for Charlie, the quails, the chickens and the gardens. Single person or couple only please. References required." Will they make money? No. But they are going to have to pay for a house sitter. If they can exchange free rent for a couple of months for the labor, they're still choosing beggars, but less so, if someone needs some place to stay while their own home is getting renovated or they are waiting to close on their new house and need temporary accommodations. They might go for it.
There is actually a thriving community of house sitters who do it to enjoy different locations. They usually have work from home jobs and just need the Internet.
Exactly what I was thinking. They could just pay a neighbor kid a couple hundred to pet sit but they are hoping someone else will pay to finance their holiday.
In Newport Rhode Island they rent places out for a few months during the summer. You can live in an apartment for the year at 1200 or rent it for exclusive to the summer for 3k a month for 3 months.
Some professions have short-term placements or study periods. In medicine, it’s called a locum. Not sure whether a doctor on a locum would have time for barnyard maintenance, though.
There was this Australian show about an air B&B competition and in one of the episodes the house guests had to feed a couple cats dogs fish a turtle and possibly one more animal like a bird or something. Each had a special diet and feeding routine. I don't recall they doing much else outside of animal care.
This would result in a dead garden unless there was an automatic water schedule. Then it would result in a wild, overgrown garden that would take considerable time to tame back, depending on the size of the garden.
As someone who owns dogs, chickens, guineas and now turkeys, I can tell you our most burdensome animals are easily the dogs. For 2 months? If the chickens were fed and watered they would be fine. You technically wouldn't need to get the eggs, but you'd probably want to so they don't start eating them. The guineas basically feed themselves if free ranged. Don't know about quail, they are a little more wild so probably more effort but can't imagine it's worse than a dog.
This sound like an opportunity for squatters right. Pay first month then just live there for couples of month paying no rent taking care of everything there…soon it will just be theirs Lol 😂
Squatters rights, in the places they are recognized require often years of occupancy to be recognized. Going in with a contract like this place WILL have, there is no squatting in that.
This is complete nonsense. My dog sitter charges $55 a day. That alone is over $1700 a month, without adding in a farm and garden. If I’m paying money to stay somewhere, I’m not doing ANY work. I live in a HCOL area, and even a house sitter only watering plants, getting the mail, and looking after the place gets paid a token amount. Unless this is a mansion, no one is paying these people to take care of their animals and land. I’d be hard pressed to do this for free unless I was desperate for a place to live.
Wait is it two months for $2000 and animal sitting or is it $4000 over two months? The first one isn’t so bad though probably wouldn’t be worth it regardless if they expect you to move back out at the end. Moving is miserable.
Who bothers with a garden when they're not going to be home all summer? Like do they just want to make sure there are freshly harvested vegetables on the table when they return on Labor Day?
These kinds of beggars annoy me. I'm tempted to reply to one of these ads; without a contract or agreement in writing you could get away with some pretty shady behavior in their house and it's belongings. They'd certainly learn a lesson.
No such thing as just "a little weeding" for a garden in June-August. That's literally ALL the weeding. Hell, August is when the weeds get out of control no matter what I do.
Wait what? they want someone to pay them to take care of their place? Damn I've been looking for a pet/home sitting service I never thought to charge them. That's brilliant!
So they want someone to take care of a dog, chickens, quail, and do garden work but not pay them? Oh and top of that, they want someone to rent their house so I'm guessing that person has to pay for the utilities too.
Honestly if they were willing to let me live without paying rent there I absolutely would do this. I wouldn’t do it and pay rent, but I for sure will feed your chickens if it means I get to live there without a rent.
I actually did something like this once. We were new to the area and needed some place to stay. We rented this rich girl's whole house and watched her dog while she vacationed for 3 months.
That’s always the comment missing for these posts. Where I live that would be insultingly high. But somewhere near New York or LA? Maybe not so unreasonable. Saving several hundred or a thousand bucks to do some housework is not bad. Dog sitting is a big ask, mind you. But discounted rent is nothing to sneeze at.
When it got to mention of their garden I wondered if this was real. Planting a garden is a lot of work to end up leaving for two months during harvest time.
I mean, there are a lot of places where a 3 bed 1800 sq ft single family home rents for a lot more than $2k. That would probably be $4000+ a month near me depending on how nice it is.
Paying an exorbitant amount to care for someone else's animals and home... Oh my goodness! This is exactly the opportunity that I've spent more than half my life wishing for!!! What's their number?? Imma start packing right now!!!
What breed of douchebag do you have to be in order to think your home and lifestyle is so great that someone would be willing to uproot their life for two months in the middle of summer to pay an egregious amount of money to take care of all your animals, plants, and house?? People are crazy!
I went to Alaska for 2 months. I had someone sublet my apartment and watch my cats while he did a language program that was a walk away from my house. So he just studied and hung out. I wouldn't do it again though, I only did it that time since my cat sitter fell through due to domestic abuse. I worried all the time over my cats.
Hard to say if this is a bad deal or not. If the home really is that lovely, and it's in an expensive area, then who knows? It's also hard to tell if they are saying it's $2k per month, or $2k for the summer months. Again, either way, summer rentals can be brutal in some areas, running upwards of $2k for a weekend to rent a 3br.
The worst part of this is the gardening, especially the weeding. If it was an elegant condo in a resort area with just a small dog, then maybe. Also, the multiple bird thing is a no too.
This doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. I know lots of people who look for a place to rent for a few months and are happy to do some chores in exchange for a deal on rent.
Well if you’re not single you’re part of a couple, so they’re not really discriminating here. I guess they’re trying to avoid a group of friends taking them up on the offer which could lead to partying and potential damages?
I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just curious: how? You can’t skip over a renter because of a protected class. Relationship status isn’t protected afaik
To be fair, depending on where this is, it might actually be a bargain. There are places in my beach resort town that rent over $1000/week in the summer and they're essentially glorified studio apartments. Not uncommon to see houses rent out for $3-5k or more per month. So getting one at half the rate in exchange for dogsitting and some light gardening might be worth it to some.
The difference is that they rent weekly for people’s vacations. This is a place that comes with responsibilities for slightly more than two months. Who is vacationing for that long that needs to stay someplace cheap?
I am in a few groups where this would be something they would get excited about in a good way. The rent is essentially market rate for what you are getting with the benefit of having animals.
I dunno if this fits so well. A 3 bedroom house for 1k/month? You can not respond to the ad if you want but there are plenty of places where I would petsit for that kind of discount on rent. If the going rate for that house is 4K/month that’s damn reasonable
Not renters. Renters don’t have to take care of the landlords pets and gardens and livestock. This is a house sitting job, they should be paying someone to do it.
Paying someone to house sit, multiple pet sit, and garden would cost more than $2,000 a month. Maybe if they offered it rent free but even then it would still cost most people money cause they'd be paying rent/mortgage on their other place.
Oh goodness, this reminds me of the time when a tenured senior faculty member in my university department asked the grad students if anyone would like to house-sit for him over the summer... You would have access to his house near the water (pretty to look at, gross to swim in, and a bit stinky on hot days) and could use his car (since it was nowhere near the public transport that most students relied on), and all you would have to do in return would be to water the plants, feed/walk/clean up after the dogs... and pay the electricity bill. But you wouldn't be charged rent or anything! What a bargain! 🙄
Why don’t they just have a renter and use that money to hire someone to come by and look after the pet. Assigning that role to the person renting would be improbable due to the the possibility of them having jobs and their lives to live, general up keep is a standard for any place.
My hot take: they want a live in nanny for the dog that pays them for the privilege of being a nanny to said dog. Edit: and all the other farm animals too! (I forgot them. Likely what a "renter" would do too.)
Get outta here with all that common-sense thinking, that's not how we do things 'round here 😂
Anyone willing to "rent" for only 2 months is going to turn your house into a flop house, a crack house or a whore house and you are going to have to take them to court to get rid of them then rebuild your house from the foundation up. Hire a fucking house sitter ffs.
Not to mention they want someone to rent for a whole 2 months? The amount of people willing to pack all their shit after 2 months... but also willing to do all these tasks is like.. 2 people on the planet tops. A much better option would be "800 a month gets you the room and full access to the kitchen/garage, however we require assistance with the animals when we are away"
Why don't they pay someone to look after the house, take care of the pet and garden! How about $2,000 a month? Talk about cajones!
Because if they can have a renter that also works as a live-in caretaker/farm hand, then you're basically stealing extra money from them.
The amount of work that needs to be done around the house is worth what they're charging in rent. They should offer this as a gig. "Will let you stay in our house for these days if you care for Charlie, the quails, the chickens and the gardens. Single person or couple only please. References required." Will they make money? No. But they are going to have to pay for a house sitter. If they can exchange free rent for a couple of months for the labor, they're still choosing beggars, but less so, if someone needs some place to stay while their own home is getting renovated or they are waiting to close on their new house and need temporary accommodations. They might go for it.
Who's going to want the hassle of moving somewhere for two months just to have to move out again?
College kids. But they aren’t looking to pay to house sit for you.
There is actually a thriving community of house sitters who do it to enjoy different locations. They usually have work from home jobs and just need the Internet.
God, i got offered a place for less than a month. I said no lol
Exactly what I was thinking. They could just pay a neighbor kid a couple hundred to pet sit but they are hoping someone else will pay to finance their holiday.
If they were paying $2k per month for dog & house sitting, and I didn't have a job, that would be a pretty good deal.
A student who gotten a internship or temporary job in that area. I colease my apartment out during some summers because of this.
Someone who needs temporary housing?
Someone smart enough to know they could get free rent with this
Because AirBnB isn't a thi... wait...
Not gonna lie I am actually just looking for somewhere similar to this but in Spain. Obviously take my own dog though
Stuff like that is good for people just moving to an area or looking to transition to different housing that isn't immediately available.
In Newport Rhode Island they rent places out for a few months during the summer. You can live in an apartment for the year at 1200 or rent it for exclusive to the summer for 3k a month for 3 months.
People rent summer homes all the time. They don't tend to pets.
Some professions have short-term placements or study periods. In medicine, it’s called a locum. Not sure whether a doctor on a locum would have time for barnyard maintenance, though.
It may be nice in a tourist area. In which case the deal may make a lot of sense.
Summer school or summer internships. Most people I know have had to sublease at one point or another during the summer when in college.
What’s the point of 3 bedrooms if you are supposed to be single, a couple, or a small family? And will they even let you use all the bedrooms?
One bedroom is Charlie’s and one bedroom is for the chickens, so you can use the third bedroom only.
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I mean, extra bedrooms are useful regardless of family size, but what's the po8nt if it's only for a summer?
Apparently they will still be in the house that you rented while using one of the bedroom (the big one at that) .
OK, no problem, but I charge $5,000 a month to dog sit, take care of poultry, and to do gardening.
Uno reverse card
Excuse me you’d be a foster parent
I'd deduct 10 a month if they let you eat the chickens
i’d do it then upper decker every toilet and disappear into the night 👻
That would be some expensive shits.
Shrimp in curtain rod
That took me a moment to understand what you mean by upper decker. Ooo I like your style.
The dog will be lost and the quail will end up for dinner. You heard it from me first.
There was this Australian show about an air B&B competition and in one of the episodes the house guests had to feed a couple cats dogs fish a turtle and possibly one more animal like a bird or something. Each had a special diet and feeding routine. I don't recall they doing much else outside of animal care.
All of this
This would result in a dead garden unless there was an automatic water schedule. Then it would result in a wild, overgrown garden that would take considerable time to tame back, depending on the size of the garden.
I was like "eh, depends on where it is...wait, they're expected to look after guineas and chickens? The literal fuck??'
As someone who owns dogs, chickens, guineas and now turkeys, I can tell you our most burdensome animals are easily the dogs. For 2 months? If the chickens were fed and watered they would be fine. You technically wouldn't need to get the eggs, but you'd probably want to so they don't start eating them. The guineas basically feed themselves if free ranged. Don't know about quail, they are a little more wild so probably more effort but can't imagine it's worse than a dog.
Idk, I think I’d be up for it depending on the situation.
My boss pays me $100 a day to house-sit. All he asks of me is to clean his fridge, which I'm more than happy to do.
How many days a week ?
Cleaning the fridge is a weirdly specific task. Feeding pets, watering plants, washing floors I’d expect but the fridge is an odd one
Why does the fridge need to be cleaned every day?
My ideal renter will also reroof the house and shed with matching shingles, repaint the house and shed matching colors and repave the driveway.
So.. They want someone to take care of their home and pets AND pay them for the privilege?!
This sound like an opportunity for squatters right. Pay first month then just live there for couples of month paying no rent taking care of everything there…soon it will just be theirs Lol 😂
Name does not check out. Should be WiiBeStayin.
Squatters rights, in the places they are recognized require often years of occupancy to be recognized. Going in with a contract like this place WILL have, there is no squatting in that.
there are places where it is really hard to evict people, but not thru squatter's rights.
How can the original residents not be able to forcefully evict? They own the property and castle doctrine is a thing.
This is complete nonsense. My dog sitter charges $55 a day. That alone is over $1700 a month, without adding in a farm and garden. If I’m paying money to stay somewhere, I’m not doing ANY work. I live in a HCOL area, and even a house sitter only watering plants, getting the mail, and looking after the place gets paid a token amount. Unless this is a mansion, no one is paying these people to take care of their animals and land. I’d be hard pressed to do this for free unless I was desperate for a place to live.
Why is “Charlie” in quotation marks? Does the dog have a code name to protect its identity?
Wait is it two months for $2000 and animal sitting or is it $4000 over two months? The first one isn’t so bad though probably wouldn’t be worth it regardless if they expect you to move back out at the end. Moving is miserable.
There are a lot of people who housesit instead of having a permanent situation...but you're not really moving in the traditional sense.
Looks like $2000 total so $1000 a month. Even still, with the expectation of taking care of (multiple!) pets and the house, I’d still want to be paid.
Who bothers with a garden when they're not going to be home all summer? Like do they just want to make sure there are freshly harvested vegetables on the table when they return on Labor Day?
I do this in the summer when we go away for break. But I use mulch, not renters. It’s really nice to come home to everything ready to pick.
These kinds of beggars annoy me. I'm tempted to reply to one of these ads; without a contract or agreement in writing you could get away with some pretty shady behavior in their house and it's belongings. They'd certainly learn a lesson.
No such thing as just "a little weeding" for a garden in June-August. That's literally ALL the weeding. Hell, August is when the weeds get out of control no matter what I do.
Wait what? they want someone to pay them to take care of their place? Damn I've been looking for a pet/home sitting service I never thought to charge them. That's brilliant!
I live in a super expensive town and people still pay for house-sitting. This is beyond clueless.
So they want someone to take care of a dog, chickens, quail, and do garden work but not pay them? Oh and top of that, they want someone to rent their house so I'm guessing that person has to pay for the utilities too.
How the fuck can you leave your dog and other animals with a total stranger?
Why is their dog's name in quotation marks? Is he only ALLEGEDLY Charlie?
By weeding do they mean that you can smoke the MJ that they were clearly smoking when they came up with this harebrained idea?
Honestly if they were willing to let me live without paying rent there I absolutely would do this. I wouldn’t do it and pay rent, but I for sure will feed your chickens if it means I get to live there without a rent.
Foster parent the quail, water the dog and chicken the scrupulous garden, no problem 👍
I actually did something like this once. We were new to the area and needed some place to stay. We rented this rich girl's whole house and watched her dog while she vacationed for 3 months.
If they were paying $2k a month on the other hand, I would make sure those animals were treated like royalty
Depends on where this is. In Silicon Valley this would be an absolute steal. But I wouldn’t trust strangers with my animals. That’s the insane part.
That’s always the comment missing for these posts. Where I live that would be insultingly high. But somewhere near New York or LA? Maybe not so unreasonable. Saving several hundred or a thousand bucks to do some housework is not bad. Dog sitting is a big ask, mind you. But discounted rent is nothing to sneeze at.
This is in western North Carolina. Lots of friends posted about it making fun of it.
scrumptious care...
My partner and I were suckered into an arrangement like this. Don't live with money hungry yoga instructors!
This is to get someone to pay for them to go on a summer holiday for two months and feed their pets.
Charlie's gonna end up missing.
Weeding? Fuck off…
Well just make a contract. but not specify the year/period or make a TYPO.
Sounds haunted. Pass.
When it got to mention of their garden I wondered if this was real. Planting a garden is a lot of work to end up leaving for two months during harvest time.
WTF hahahaha pay us to be our gardener and maid
Sure that sounds like a great deal for 2K GTFOH.
I mean, there are a lot of places where a 3 bed 1800 sq ft single family home rents for a lot more than $2k. That would probably be $4000+ a month near me depending on how nice it is.
My mom has both chicken and quail and they are a big pain in the ass to take care of when she goes on vacation.
Paying an exorbitant amount to care for someone else's animals and home... Oh my goodness! This is exactly the opportunity that I've spent more than half my life wishing for!!! What's their number?? Imma start packing right now!!!
I have cats and chickens. You can come here.
I'd take care of the chickens and quails alright. With sides of carrots and potatoes
This could end up really bad for the homeowner.
Come work, harvest my garden and take care of my dog and pay me! Lol
Such ignorance!
Someone should rent it. Sell all their shit and hold the dog for ransom lol
just an fyi, 1800ft² is not the same as 1800 squared feet.
“ Weeding” “Harvesting” “Scrupulous Care” “Enjoy chickens and quail” (Maybe to eat, at least). “ $2,000 rent”.
Sounds like they want a house sitter but instead of paying them, they want to be paid lol
What breed of douchebag do you have to be in order to think your home and lifestyle is so great that someone would be willing to uproot their life for two months in the middle of summer to pay an egregious amount of money to take care of all your animals, plants, and house?? People are crazy!
“Lovely”
Scrupulous…
It’s hard to say if this is choosing beggar without knowing market rate
Care for our house farm and pay us.
Harvesting the garden? That’s a brutal full time job in itself.
I saw a house listed for 2 month rent and "comes with 3 adorable cats !".
So, you want me to pay you to take care of your animals? Got it. When do I start?
Ahhh, fantasy farmhand camp
I mean this is basically what all private rents are, just this one is particularly obnoxious.
I went to Alaska for 2 months. I had someone sublet my apartment and watch my cats while he did a language program that was a walk away from my house. So he just studied and hung out. I wouldn't do it again though, I only did it that time since my cat sitter fell through due to domestic abuse. I worried all the time over my cats.
My first thought was “this seems like a decent deal”. Apparently that’s how much living in NYC will mess with your perspective.
Move in, change the locks, sell the furniture and appliances, move out with the animals. Net profit and bonus dog.
Hard to say if this is a bad deal or not. If the home really is that lovely, and it's in an expensive area, then who knows? It's also hard to tell if they are saying it's $2k per month, or $2k for the summer months. Again, either way, summer rentals can be brutal in some areas, running upwards of $2k for a weekend to rent a 3br.
The worst part of this is the gardening, especially the weeding. If it was an elegant condo in a resort area with just a small dog, then maybe. Also, the multiple bird thing is a no too.
This doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. I know lots of people who look for a place to rent for a few months and are happy to do some chores in exchange for a deal on rent.
I read weeding as wedding first and thought who tf would want to marry someone's chickens
have an open mind, man
“Our ideal renter is a responsible single, couple or small family”
Well if you’re not single you’re part of a couple, so they’re not really discriminating here. I guess they’re trying to avoid a group of friends taking them up on the offer which could lead to partying and potential damages?
It says “ideal”, it’s not ruling out any other status. Not illegal
I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just curious: how? You can’t skip over a renter because of a protected class. Relationship status isn’t protected afaik
Is it illegal to just post that or only if you actual act on it? Serious question.
To be fair, depending on where this is, it might actually be a bargain. There are places in my beach resort town that rent over $1000/week in the summer and they're essentially glorified studio apartments. Not uncommon to see houses rent out for $3-5k or more per month. So getting one at half the rate in exchange for dogsitting and some light gardening might be worth it to some.
The difference is that they rent weekly for people’s vacations. This is a place that comes with responsibilities for slightly more than two months. Who is vacationing for that long that needs to stay someplace cheap?
I am in a few groups where this would be something they would get excited about in a good way. The rent is essentially market rate for what you are getting with the benefit of having animals.
It totally depends where this is if its a good deal or not
I dunno if this fits so well. A 3 bedroom house for 1k/month? You can not respond to the ad if you want but there are plenty of places where I would petsit for that kind of discount on rent. If the going rate for that house is 4K/month that’s damn reasonable
At least they are including a few meals worth of chicken.
Honestly $2000 for 3 months if this is a Hamptons house is not a terrible deal. It’d cost you $2000 a week for the same thing to rent an Airbnb.
They aren’t begging they are posting an ad for renters.
Not renters. Renters don’t have to take care of the landlords pets and gardens and livestock. This is a house sitting job, they should be paying someone to do it.
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Paying $2,000 to watch their dogs and tend to their garden for two months?
Paying someone to house sit, multiple pet sit, and garden would cost more than $2,000 a month. Maybe if they offered it rent free but even then it would still cost most people money cause they'd be paying rent/mortgage on their other place.
My mortgage isn't even that expensive on a monthly basis and I live in an amazing area of a super nice city.
stop tripping balls son and start paying rent....
Eh, extremely short term rentals like this are a thing in some markets. Probably not in the places where $1000/month gets you a house though...
Unless this is on the beach with a great pool and hot tub and cabana boy, I’m out
I'd do it for free
I mean... in Boston, that'd be some cheap rent in exchange for some pet sitting lol
I think the location of this house here matters the most.
Paying to house sit sounds insane until you remember how crappy the current rental market is in a lot of places.
I mean you don’t know where they live. If this is in Bay Area that’s a screaming good deal.
Depending where this is who knows it could be a good deal. But probably not
Gotta love Asheville
Depends where this is - if it's a nice summer destination, that's a steal. I live near the beach and stuff goes for thousands a week in the summer.
This is actually a really good deal. Houses for rent by me (by the water) range from $1000-$10,000 a week during the summer.
I can tell you right now this place is nowhere near the water
Did you miss that you have to run their hobby farm as well?
Oh goodness, this reminds me of the time when a tenured senior faculty member in my university department asked the grad students if anyone would like to house-sit for him over the summer... You would have access to his house near the water (pretty to look at, gross to swim in, and a bit stinky on hot days) and could use his car (since it was nowhere near the public transport that most students relied on), and all you would have to do in return would be to water the plants, feed/walk/clean up after the dogs... and pay the electricity bill. But you wouldn't be charged rent or anything! What a bargain! 🙄
Housing discrimination, too. Nice.