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Who Lives in PadSplit? The Surprising Truth!

We discuss the range of people who rent PadSplit rooms, rather than assuming shared housing is only for students or young adults.

Published October 28, 2025 · 0:38

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The manager describes a broader resident mix than expected. This is a conversation about the portfolio he operated, not demographic data for every PadSplit market.

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[00:00] I will let you know because this surprised me. Who would you think 20 young 20 and 30 year olds, right? >> 18 to 20 year olds. Yeah. >> Yeah. Like I was thinking even people in their 30s, right? But I was thinking we're going to get a bunch of 20-y olds. We had student rentals, you know.

[00:12] >> Right. Students, that's the [clears throat] biggest guess that people Yeah. >> Right. Right. I mean, we own student rentals and we were like, "Oh my gosh." You know, we were You see what 18-year-olds who think they're adults leave a place, you know? [laughter] But

[00:23] um but anyway, >> it's worse than a section 8 vacancy, you know. >> Right. Right. And so it turns out it's it's everybody. It is a big wide diverse group of people.

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