Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Save Money By Living in a Mall Parking Garage for Four Years

Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: ,

he has one of these signs on his side of the bed too

Perhaps the biggest sign yet that housing prices are a tad too high: people setting up permanent residences in mall parking garages. As the story indicates, a guy named Michael Townsend led a group of Rhode Islanders who set up living quarters behind a wall of concrete in a Providence shopping mall garage.

Apparently the Mallpartment™ (patent and trademark pending) had electricity, furniture, and… lots of parking. No running water though, but residents could just use the mall restrooms or stand under the parking garage gutters for a nice cold shower.

Michael Townsend was arrested and charged with trespassing, but he was only sentenced to probation. I know a lot of people paying hefty mortgages would have liked to see Michael Townsend go to jail for scamming his way into a rent-free apartment.

Video of Michael Townsend’s secret mall apartment [NBC10]

66 Responses »

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kev
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm

If he had wireless Internet too, I think the crazy man was onto something…

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Patrick
October 4th, 2007 at 6:26 am

Wow. Not the way I would choose to live, but it certainly is inexpensive!

Unfortunately the sound didn’t work for me on the video, but the picture was fine…

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Clever Dude
October 4th, 2007 at 8:00 am

Hmm. The name stuck out at me while reading the paper yesterday. I know a Michael Townsend. Probably not the same person though.

Hey, I noticed you shortened your blogroll. Glad I’m at the top!

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Nick
October 4th, 2007 at 8:52 am

C-Dude, it’s been short like that for a while. I’ll have to look into adding a few more sites soon.

Patrick, one of the few disadvantages of living in a parking garage apartment is that you don’t get sound. It’s just how it is.

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rstlne
October 5th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Alternative interpretation: The mall has unused space that they could’ve leased out to someone. What a waste.

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October 11th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Funny, most of the news stories I’ve found talk about how he spent a whole 4 weeks there (as if this is a long time) and that he is talking about it as an art project / stunt. So it doesn’t sound like he was living there for four years, but it took him and his friends that long to build. Sounds like he wanted to prove he could live there (during the 4 weeks) but that he didn’t actually do so.

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October 23rd, 2007 at 11:57 am

Lol that’s too funny but hey it’s probably gonna be a trend soon. Pretty smart if you ask me.

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May 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 am

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May 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 am

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June 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm

To be very true, It is the worst lifestyle to live I ever know so I think it is not favorable. This is another indication of our bad economy.

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June 28th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Even our world is going worst than that. I think our lifestyle is getting poor and poor each day.

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May 24th, 2010 at 7:55 am

This is crazy! What I want to know is if this group actually managed to save any money at all, women in close proximietry to shops all the time-bad idea!

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June 24th, 2010 at 7:02 am

Sounds Cool. How can one leave in mall parking garage for four years. But One can if when the time is not going cool according to him.

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July 18th, 2010 at 8:28 am

Nick your 100% right the house price were and still are way over valued. In ohio they were the worst to get hit with almost a 40% hair cut in the last few years. This wil have a huge knock on effect for many years to come.
Regards
Mike

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July 26th, 2010 at 8:22 am

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