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Two choices: 1) remote location far enough away from next dwelling such that sound will not interfere with next closest dwelling or 2) a dwelling containing an acoustically sound room. For either of these scenarios, hire an acoustician to test the dwelling/room before you buy or sign a rental agreement. How to find such dwellings? Work with a realtor, and be clear and honest with that person.

The strongest negotiation leverage, unsurprisingly, comes when one has legitimate other living options one can pursue, ideally with minimal transition costs. Are you willing to move? Do you have a couch you can crash on or a friend who can take you in for a few transitional weeks? Can you pack all of your worldly belongings into your car in six hours instead of needing to rent a moving van for a day or two? Those will all materially help your cause. If you obviously consider your dwelling your long-haul home and a move would entail relocating umpteen framed posters and a player piano... well, that won't help your cause any.You gain additional leverage by being just the best tenant ever. Rent checks always come in on time! Not putting in a lot of ticky-tacky repair requests! No crazy parties into the wee hours of the morning that the neighbors frown at and cluck about! You're in good straits if the landlord mindset is "look, I love having this person around, they're a no-hassle slam-dunk, I'll go to some length to keep 'em."Of course, so much of this depends on the local market and the nature of the landlord in question. Sometimes, you can be a stellar tenant!... but there are a hundred applications to get into this place, so the rent is going up 35% no matter how personable you are. And sometimes, your property can be owned by an unemotional corporate conglomerate, where you're little more than a walking FICO score - completely fungible and able to be replaced by any soul who can pen a rent check at the appropriate intervals. Best of luck negotiating in those cases.

This sounds like a Sociology seminar discussion type question. For those that own no property, or love the idea of Collectivism it makes perfect sense!!No downside, the owner isn’t making money on the place anyhow. Why not put it to use and get all those poor starving people off the streets.From those with the ability, to those with the need!!OOPS, then you leave campus, get a job, work hard, and finally buy a house.But more on that later!There were a LOT of Zombie foreclosures here in Las Vegas 2008–2014. That is when the owner just walks away and leaves an empty house.Well some smart crooks went down to an Office Depot, picked up some pre printed rental contracts. Then they picked an empty house, broke in, changed the locks. Then they advertised a rental.A renter showed up, signed the papers, paid the deposit, First and Last months rent, got the keys and moved in. Then the landlord, typically went to another house and started the scam all over again.(Many times the renter did in fact know the rental agreement wasn’t legit.)Then one day the real property manager showed up, and discovered 5 or 6 people, including small children, living there.He would tell the people they were trespassing, and get the hell out now!!NO, the renter responded, I rented this place from this guy!The manager calls the police. The police come look at the rental agreement, turn and tell the Manager, Sorry nothing we can do. In fact the renters are the victim here too. You will have to file paperwork, to evict he renter, and then pay the Constable to show up and physically eject them. Because there are children involved, and its winter, don’t expect anything to happen until May at the earliest.Meantime, the renters stay. Drug use and domestic violence are common. Murders, assaults, and just plain vandalism occur.Meantime the real home owner can’t rent their own property out. They have to stand by and watch while the squatters live there free, and trash the place.Then after the eviction is over, they have to change the locks, repair all the damage, and reinstall things like sinks, toilets, faucets, built in appliances etc. Because the squatter removed everything and sold it, the house requires a very expensive series of repairs to put it back, on the market.Now put that house next door to yours. Ya know the one you worked very hard for.While that little Marxist in you will protest, it is after all you losing home value because of what’s going on next door.Well what about places like warehouses?Well this example isn’t about squatters. It is about what can happen when people move into a building NOT designed for human habitation-The Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire.This was a warehouse. It was built with a level of fire safety consistent with a large open space with very few humans to evacuate in case of fire.Rent was sky high in the SF Bay Area. So the warehouse became a residence for a lot of poor people just trying to eek out an existence.They moved into the warehouse. Because it was just empty space the renters and the landlord started installing makeshift room dividers-Living spaces on the first floor were connected by makeshift hallways constructed of "aggregates of salvaged and scavenged materials, such as pianos, organs, windows, wood benches, lumber, and innumerable other items stacked next to and on top of each other." The live-work spaces were separated by a variety of things, including "wooden studs, steel beams, doors, window frames, bed frames, railings, pianos, benches, chairs, intact trailers, portions of trailers, corrugated metal sheeting, tapestries, plywood, sculptures, tree stumps and tree limbs."Pictures on the Ghost Ship web site from January 2017 show the interior of the building. There were multiple small, enclosed spaces divided by wooden partitions, a dozen or more wooden pianos and organs, a large number of wooden and upholstered furniture, with every available space filled with wooden boxes and shelves, logs, wood-framed windows, carpets, tapestries, masks, artwork, icons, pictures, frames, mannequins, statues, lamps, objets d'art, and more.The fire Department reported it, but nothing happened. Seems the politician's understood the need for affordable rentals. They did pass rent control to keep things affordable. It didn’t help.36 fatalities-So to answer your question, it is a very very bad idea to let people live in vacant homes and /or in vacant buildings not designed for human habitation.