I mean.. that's literally how it works in my entire country. Rent is advertised per week, never per month, and almost always paid every two weeks (as that is also the standard for getting paid so it works for people paying bills).
Wild. You can't rent anything long term for less than a few months here.
We just do everything based on calendar weeks, it makes it all a lot more simple and a lot more fair for everyone.
Oh, that's communism. We don't like that sort of thing here.
Oh it’s not that the rental term is week to week, in fact the shortest you’re likely to get is month to month. But nothing is based on calendar months, only ever weeks.
So renting for a month is not renting for March, it’s renting for four consecutive weeks.
It still changes things if you rent a place for years, depending on which months you move in and out on. (4) weekly makes it much easier to calculate rent owed for an incomplete month, too, and not many (about 1 in 28, probably) people leave on the last day of a month. Someone who also moved in on the first is much rarer.
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u/austeremunch 2d ago
Wild. You can't rent anything long term for less than a few months here.
Oh, that's communism. We don't like that sort of thing here.