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Has anyone got experience of renting a room for short periods?

I've heard you can rent out to actors on tour, which sounds like a plan, but I wondered if there were other ways to make some cash out of a (big, nice) spare room that don't involve renting the thing out full time?

I have tried getting a Monday-Friday lodger and failed, and I really need the cash. But I can't face having a flatmate who's going to move in with their whole life (i.e. friends, relationships, hobbies, blah blah), it needs to be someone with a life elsewhere who's just staying at my place for work or whatever.

Any ideas welcome!

In reply to Jon Stewart:

have you tried air bnb

http://www.airbnb.co.uk

In reply to Jon Stewart:

Yup I work all over country and just use cheapest air bnb or actual if I dont kip in van

In reply to Bob Hughes:

Cheers, interesting.

In reply to Jon Stewart:

Thinking of this myself.

Got a room lying vacant.

Quandary is finding someone you can trust ,and basically give the run of the house.

Suppose I could set up some trap doors.

In reply to Jon Stewart:

I use spareroom.com and speak to them before. You can choose the length of rent and price

In reply to Jon Stewart:

Traditionally the way to do this is to contact the local theatre(s) and ask to be put on their 'digs list'. I imagine digs are largely sorted online, via Facebook and the like these days (my own experience of theatre digs is largely pre-internet, so ancient history), but it still couldn't hurt to give it a try.

In reply to deepsoup:

Cheers, yes I've contacted them. There are online sites that take a commission, and the actor I spoke to about this didn't say she used the online sites, so I'll see if the theatres' lists come up with anything.