A Dozen Ways to Live Rent Free

Ethan Maurice
10 min readMay 15, 2019
A night in my 2003 Honda Element conversion.

For the past five years, I’ve been doing my damnedest to avoid paying rent. Given, I’m quite nomadic and largely avoid leases for the purpose of geographical freedom, but you might be surprised just how much time rent can cost you in a year.

I don’t particularly love articles full of numbers and perhaps you don’t either, but these are eye-opening numbers. Bear with me as we begin with a little math.

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