Whole-unit vs. by-room vs. short-term: set up the income comparison
Rung 4 of 10 · Constraints + negative instructions
1 · Learn the move · Constraints + negative instructions
One unit can be rented three ways, whole, by the room, or short-term, and each has a very different income, cost, effort, and legal profile. The job isn't to crown the highest number; it's to set the three up honestly under hard constraints. The negative instructions do the heavy lifting: never assume short-term rental is legal (route to the local ordinance and HOA), never invent a nightly rate or an occupancy percentage, and never present a by-room plan without flagging its occupancy, lease, and Fair-Housing considerations. Set up each strategy's gross as a formula, hand off the math, and gate the STR number behind legality.
Compare whole-unit vs by-room vs short-term income for ONE unit under strict constraints. Set up each strategy's gross as a formula tagged COMPUTE IN YOUR MODEL/verify. Do NOT assume STR is legal (route to local ordinance + HOA), invent no nightly rate or occupancy, and gate the STR number behind the legality check. Flag by-room occupancy/lease/Fair-Housing considerations. Hand off the math; not legal or investment advice.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your client has one extra unit in their owner-occupied triplex and wants the income options. They paste their own estimates: whole-unit rent about $1,500/month; by-room, 3 rentable rooms at roughly $700/room; short-term, a guess of $120/night. They have NOT checked whether short-term rentals are allowed locally, and there's no occupancy assumption. Write a prompt that sets up the three-way comparison without assuming STR is legal or inventing an occupancy rate.
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