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Whenever I leave town, I feel a genuine twinge of regret because I’m wasting money on rent. I live in Lagos and obviously, it’s my personal choice to leave town as often as I do. I love the mobility aspect of my work, because I come back to the west coast often (and prefer to stay for an extended period of time to get the most out of my plane ticket). But of course, I still need to pay rent for my apartment because it is still my place of residence. So instead, I am interested in finding solutions that allow me to make back my rent so that I’m not eating that money when I choose to travel. Living in any major city makes it much easier to make back your rent because people are vying for any sort of apartment space, and are typically willing to pay.

If you, like me, are constantly worried about losing money when you leave your apartment, here are 4 ways to start making money off your apartment whenever you leave town:

1. Co-Tenant(https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/)
I currently live with a roommate.. But when I lived alone, I Co-tenanted my apartment regularly. I am going to do a more in-depth post onCo-Tenanting as a side hustle with all the how to’s (and a few horror stories), but for now, I’ll say that I think this is a great solution for people leaving their apartments in the short term, as opposed to for a full month or more. Personally, I liked to be around to meet the guest (just in case), give them my keys and show them everything. Most Co-Tenanters are looking for a week stay, and you can set a minimum nights stay if you are going out of town for the entire week. Alternatively, you don’t have to be there when your guest checks out, and can agree on a safe spot to leave keys. To get started, follow this link https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/ , and take inviting photos of your apartment.

2. Sublet( https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/ )
There are two ways to go about subletting your apartment when you’re going out of town. If you’re going out of town for a week or so, asking around to friends is the best way to go. Put up a status on Facebook offering your place up for prorated rent. My roommate and I have (when we’ve left town at the same time) found one sublet and split the money between the two of us. You can get lucky when you put out feelers to see who wants to give you money to crash at your apartment for three weeks.

Obviously, if you’re going out of town for longer than just a few weeks, I would recommend posting on Co-Tenant ( https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/ ), and drawing up paperwork.

3. Offer your apartment up as a movie location
This is the least work, but the hardest to come by. It’s a hard solution because it’s primarily through word-of-mouth. However, tapping into student films can easily make you money off your apartment. If you live near a college, there’s a good chance that students filming their thesis projects need an apartments (that’s not their own) and are willing to pay a few hundred dollars to use yours. This isn’t limited to the school year.

4. Offer Your apartment as an office space or a store

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Whenever I leave town, I feel a genuine twinge of regret because I’m wasting money on rent. I live in Lagos and obviously, it’s my personal choice to leave town as often as I do. I love the mobility aspect of my work, because I come back to the west coast often (and prefer to stay for an extended period of time to get the most out of my plane ticket). But of course, I still need to pay rent for my apartment because it is still my place of residence. So instead, I am interested in finding solutions that allow me to make back my rent so that I’m not eating that money when I choose to travel. Living in any major city makes it much easier to make back your rent because people are vying for any sort of apartment space, and are typically willing to pay.

If you, like me, are constantly worried about losing money when you leave your apartment, here are 4 ways to start making money off your apartment whenever you leave town:

1. Co-Tenant(https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/)
I currently live with a roommate.. But when I lived alone, I Co-tenanted my apartment regularly. I am going to do a more in-depth post onCo-Tenanting as a side hustle with all the how to’s (and a few horror stories), but for now, I’ll say that I think this is a great solution for people leaving their apartments in the short term, as opposed to for a full month or more. Personally, I liked to be around to meet the guest (just in case), give them my keys and show them everything. Most Co-Tenanters are looking for a week stay, and you can set a minimum nights stay if you are going out of town for the entire week. Alternatively, you don’t have to be there when your guest checks out, and can agree on a safe spot to leave keys. To get started, follow this link https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/ , and take inviting photos of your apartment.

2. Sublet( https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/ )
There are two ways to go about subletting your apartment when you’re going out of town. If you’re going out of town for a week or so, asking around to friends is the best way to go. Put up a status on Facebook offering your place up for prorated rent. My roommate and I have (when we’ve left town at the same time) found one sublet and split the money between the two of us. You can get lucky when you put out feelers to see who wants to give you money to crash at your apartment for three weeks.

Obviously, if you’re going out of town for longer than just a few weeks, I would recommend posting on Co-Tenant ( https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/ ), and drawing up paperwork.

3. Offer your apartment up as a movie location
This is the least work, but the hardest to come by. It’s a hard solution because it’s primarily through word-of-mouth. However, tapping into student films can easily make you money off your apartment. If you live near a college, there’s a good chance that students filming their thesis projects need an apartments (that’s not their own) and are willing to pay a few hundred dollars to use yours. This isn’t limited to the school year.

4. Offer Your apartment as an office space or a store

GET STARTED ON CO-TENANT BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK: https://cotenant.com.ng/add-your-listing/

Apartments in major cities are expensive and, for most people, renting on your own is going to be unaffordable unless you’re earning megabucks. For many, living with roommates is the best alternative to living somewhere out in the suburbs. After all, living in the city is all about living in the city, isn’t it?

The benefits of sharing an apartment

Affordability
You need somewhere to call home but you might not spend that much time there. Why pay thousands a year for somewhere to store your wardrobe, sleep and shower? As a roommate, you’ll split the cost of the apartment with others, bringing down the amount you spend on rent and leaving you with more money in your pocket to spend on actually living. Not only will your monthly outgoings be lower, but you’ll also have less to lay out in the first place in the shape of a security deposit, which makes it easier to secure a room than an apartment rental. Utilities are generally cheaper when you split the cost with roommates too.

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Sharing is more sociable

If you’re new to a city, or don’t have a ready-made network of friends to socialize with, living with roommates gives you an instant connection, plugging you into the life of the city. Not everybody socializes with their roommates but many do and carry on being friends for years afterwards.

Even if you’ve already got a social life you might not want to come home to a silent and empty apartment. If you’ve got roommates you’ve got people to share problems, news, recipes, cool hangouts and the latest movies with. And, if you want some space, you still have your own room to retreat to.

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Sharing is a normal lifestyle choice
It used to be the case that sharing was only something students and kids fresh out of universities would contemplate. Nowadays the world has changed and professionals into their forties and above are happily renting together. Going into debt to buy or rent on your own isn’t a sensible lifestyle choice; more and more people are choosing to share resources, from cars to jobs, so why not housing too?

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In the poorly serviced capital of the Philippines, the poorest citizens have taken to living where no one else will – alongside the dead

by Lynzy Billing in Manila

“I have lived here for 51 years – and I have been trying to leave for 51 years,” says Elvira Miranda. “The government want us gone, and we also want to go. But we need somewhere to go.”

Miranda, 68, has been living with her husband and children in a teetering shanty above a stack of graves in Manila North Cemetery since 1966. It is the kind of situation you might find yourself in if, like Miranda, you’re poor, you have no job and you live in one of the world’s most notoriously crowded cities.

“We keep the cemetery clean … The community has kept to itself,” she says. “Most people here don’t have an income, but we try and find odd jobs to make ends meet. We sell flowers to victims’ families, make headstones or build coffins.”

Manila is one of the world’s most densely populated cities, as migrants from the countryside have poured in seeking better opportunities. On arrival, the majority find little work and nowhere to live except self-built communities.

Some of these slums have developed inside public cemeteries. People sleep in haphazard shanties built on top of graves, or inside mausoleums. It’s free, but there are no basic services such as sanitation, electricity and clean water, let alone adequate shelter.

There are no ghosts here. But when I am digging up a corpse I always apologise

Medina, exhumer
Cemetery slums have existed here since the 1950s, and generations of families now live in Manila North, the oldest and largest cemetery in the city. An expansive 54 hectares (133 acres), it is home to an estimated 6,000 slum-dwellers from 800 families, as well as one million dead.

Some of the community are caretakers, paid by relatives of the dead to maintain the graves; the fee can be as little as 600 pesos (£9) a year. Other residents own makeshift stores or work as masons, carving headstones for the 80-100 funerals that take place daily.

It is a difficult life, made more so by frequent violent anti-drug raids by the Philippine National Police (PNP); grislier still, some of the graves hold the corpses of the victims of the PNP’s extra-judicial killings. President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” has killed more than 12,000 people since June 2016, and many of the raids take place in cemeteries.

One such raid occurred in Manila North on 3 August last year. Carmelita Bahacan’s son, Irish, was killed. He was 37.

Life in the Pasay slum
Ricardo Medina, who lives in the Pasay slum, near his son Ericardo’s grave. Photograph: Lynzy Billing
“That night 50 police came into the cemetery,” she says. “They shot him five times. He was dead after the first shot but they continued shooting.”

Anti-drug raids happen every other day. They are shooting and killing us inside the cemetery

Bahacan, Manila North resident
Bahacan, 57, who moved to Manila North in 1992, now lives in a shanty built atop the grave of her son.

“I like Irish’s body to be next to me. He is buried in a tomb with my father. Someday soon I will die, and I would like to be buried here also.”

The PNP says crime and drug use are prevalent in cemeteries. “Many slum-dwellers are unemployed, some of them will resort to criminal activities so that they can support their families,” says superintendent Erwin Margarejo of the Manila Police District. “Cemeteries here serve as hideouts for criminals.”

A funeral takes place in the Navotas cemetery.
A funeral takes place in the Navotas slum. Photograph: Lynzy Billing
“There used to be a problem with drugs here, but now people have stopped using,” Bahacan says. “But anti-drug raids still happen every other day, in the evening or early morning hours when it is quiet and dark. They are shooting and killing us inside the cemetery.”

She says a lack of money means they cannot afford to investigate the police shootings. And with no official record of populations living in the big cemeteries – Navotas, Pasay and Manila North and South – the residents remain targets for extra-judicial operations.

Ricardo Medina, 70, also lives near the grave of his son, Ericardo, who was killed by police on 16 November 2016.

In 1996, Manila North Cemetery residents appealedfor a school, washroom and church. Nothing happened
In 1996, Manila North Cemetery residents appealed for a school, washroom and church. Nothing happened. Photograph: Lynzy Billing
“I was watching TV here and I saw Ericardo. His head was wrapped in packaging tape and he had a cardboard sign tied across his chest saying ‘pusher’, but my son is innocent,” Medina says. Ericardo is now buried with Medina’s wife, just a few metres from his house. “I like him close. I like that when I wake up I can see him … I like that I can be the one to care for his grave.”

Medina moved to Pasay cemetery in 1967. Back then, he says, “No one was living here, but look at it now.” In his section alone, there are 50 families. “But there are only two water wells. These are basic services we need.”

He works as an exhumer. Graves in this crowded city are leased for five-year periods; if the family cannot pay, the bones are dug up and incinerated.

Cemetery Slums: Manila North, Philippines
Cemetery Slums: Manila North, Philippines
A caretaker in Pasay exhumes a baby – its family can no longer pay to rent the grave space. In Manila most graves exist on a five-year lease. If it is not renewed, the bones are dug up and incinerated or given back to the family. Photographs: Lynzy Billing
“I like living here, the area is quiet. It is free, and my work is good. I can get 50 pesos to dig a baby’s grave, 150 for an adult. There are lots of bodies and so lots of work for me. It allows me to feed my family and helps people. Somebody has to do it.”

Unsurprisingly, he is not squeamish, and while speaking he holds up the hand of a decomposing corpse. “See, it doesn’t matter if we’re black, white, fat or thin, we all turn the same colour after death.

‘The government say they want us gone’
‘The government say they want us gone.’ Photograph: Lynzy Billing
“There are no ghosts here. But when I am digging up a corpse I always apologise, and say I am sorry for disturbing you. It is a matter of respect.”

Despite Medina’s claims, living conditions here are far below acceptable standards. In 1996, the residents of Manila North Cemetery appealed to the mayor for a school, washroom facilities and a church.


Nothing has happened, so they now run their own classes for the local children. And while they wait – for housing, for jobs, for justice – they continue to work as masons, caretakers or makers of coffins, headstones and mausoleums.

“The government say they want us gone, but we are doing the jobs no one else will,” Medina says. “We are part of the greater community, caring for their dead.”

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