If you pay rent on your building you pay the same rate all the time, even if you're not open.
If you open up, the cost of powering your appliances, lighting, heating, etc. is all essentially the same whether or not you feeding 100 people a day or 1000.
By definition, as a renter, you pay those same costs plus a small proft margin plus a premium to cover the times it's not occupied. Unless your landlord is a moron.
With the exception of people who are landlords for the purposes of mutual aid. We rented a room out for a bit, but only charged "what you could pay" with a hard upper cap of "what it costs is to maintain the unit".
We have people live with us for free, for in kind services, or paying whatever they could afford and still be saving money.
No they won't have different rents, if they are identical then they can charge the same amount. The costs (service charge, mortgage, etc) doesn't come into it.
Think about it - if I'm a landlord and have a lower service charge why would I charge less? That just reduces my revenue.
If I am a tenant and see one charging more than another why would I pay for the more expensive one?
You're saying that if a unit has two 500 square foot bedrooms, and one is in the basement with no windows next to the furnace and the other is upstairs with bay windows on two walls facing a garden, there is always someone willing to pay half of the overall rent for the basement unit? How exactly are you arriving at this extremely counter intuitive conclusion?
Maybe it's different in your area, but most areas I have experience with, no utilities are included in the rent. Plus a lot depends on how the place is heated/insulated (or cooled/insulated).
Here in Romania there are different rules if you rent your house this way (hotel style). You have to pay much more for the administration/utilities costs, which has some compensation effect
They aren't charging you for labor, they are charging you just because they can. In most cases where fuel is not returned full, it's probably a business trip where the renter's company is paying and the renter therefore does not take a shit about it.
If you open up, the cost of powering your appliances, lighting, heating, etc. is all essentially the same whether or not you feeding 100 people a day or 1000.
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