Rent Office

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The **Rent Office** is a Location where players can go to pay their Rent and to switch Apartments. It is also a Workplace.

Unless the player has a Job at the Rent Office, or has a Rent Extension, the Rent Office will only be open on the last Week of each Month.

Jobs at the Rent Office pay fairly well, are relatively easy to get, and do not require a Uniform, making this a good workplace in the early game.

## Opening Hours

Unlike other Locations, the **Rent Office** will only be open if any of these three conditions is met:

* The player has a Job at the Rent Office, in which case it will be open every Week.
* The player has a Rent Extension at the Rent Office, in which case it will be open that week.
* It is the last Week of the Month, in which case the Rent Office is open to everyone.

If none of these conditions are met, the Rent Office will be closed and inaccessible.

## Services

**NOTE:** Rent Office services are only available on the last Week of the Month; or while on Rent Extension. If the *only* reason the Rent Office is open to you this Week is because you work there, no services will be available here.

### Pay Rent

You may pay your Rent here. Doing so will erase your entire Rent Debt until the end of the current Month.

If you have a standing Rent Debt, you can pay it all off by choosing this option.

Clicking this option again will buy you an additional rent-free month. In other words, you will not have to visit the Rent Office for one additional month. You may do this as many times as you can afford.

### Ask for Rent Extension

You may ask the Rent Officer for a Rent Extension. This gives you one extra Week to get the necessary money to pay your Rent.

You may apply for a Rent Extension once a Turn. You may even do so on consecutive turns if you want, potentially extending your Rent payment by a whole month or more. However, the chance of your extension request being approved decreases each time you apply for one -- consecutively or otherwise.

Failure to pay the Rent by the end of the Extension results in Rent Debt, the same as if you'd never asked for an Extension at all.

If you ever have your Wages Garnished due to Rent Debt, any further attempts to get a Rent Extension **will automatically fail** until the end of the game.

### Pay Garnishment

If you are in Rent Debt, but have managed to acquire the entire sum in Cash, you may pay off your entire debt instantly at the Rent Office.

Generally speaking, there are two reasons to do this:

* To avoid the interest fees you would otherwise pay during Garnishment.
* To immediately stop your Rent Debt from negatively affecting your Liquid Assets. This is important when you are very close to your Wealth Goal, and are trying to reach it as soon as possible.

### Switch Apartments

You may pay to rent an Apartment of a different type than the one you own. If you live at Low-Cost Apartments, you may switch to Le Security Apartments, and vice versa.

Switching Apartments requires you to pay one month's worth of Rent for the new apartment.

Any Rent money you've already down-paid for your current Apartment is forfeited.

You will still need to pay off any Rent Debt you owe for your previous apartment, as normal.

### Reduce Rent

If the Rent Office is currently offering the same type of Apartment you own for a lower Rent, you may reduce your rent by switching over to the other type of apartment, and then immediately switching back. This is costly in the short term, but can save a lot of money in the long term.

Read more on this in the article on Rent.

## Actions

### Work

If you have a Job at the **Rent Office**, you can Work here to get money. The Rent Office will be open to you every Week of the Month, though you can only use services at the end of the Month or while on Rent Extension.

## Visuals

If visiting the **Rent Office** when it is closed, only the exterior of the building is shown.

Like most other portraits, the Rent Officer's face is slightly different in the CD-ROM version of the game.

Rent Officer, CD-ROM versionClosed on most weeks
## Quotes

### Greetings

* *Welcome to the Rent Office. Don't snivel. Just pay your rent and leave.*
* *Welcome to the Rent Office. The rent is high, but where else can you get so little for so much.*
* *Welcome to the Rent Office. We don't charge any extra rent for the cockroaches.*
* *Welcome to the Rental Office. No waterbeds, pets or velvet toreador paintings, please.*
* *Welcome to the Rental Office. Where Sunday is Double Rent Increase Day!*
* *Welcome to the Rental Office. Our closets are so roomy, you'll never want to come out!*
* *Welcome to the Rental Office. Our security apartments feature 24-hour eunuch guards!*
* *Welcome to the Rental Office. Come in and meet your slumlo...I mean, your landlord!*

### Pay Rent

* *Thank you. See you soon.*
* *Come back again soon.*
* *I'm here for all of your renting needs.*
* *Please tell all your rich friends about m... I mean us.*
* *Thank You, but please don't call me at 4 in the morning again.*

### Extension Approved

* *Sure, you can pay your rent next week.*
* *I already told you Yes!*

### Extension Rejected

* *Sorry, your rent must be paid now.*
* *I'll say it again. NO!*
* *WhaddoI look like? A bank?. Get outa here!*
* *If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times. NO!!!!!*
* *Click on that button one more time and I'll break your finger.*

### Renting Low-Cost Housing

* *Ah. Well, I expect you'll find the neighborhood quite challenging.*
* *Oh. Well, hopefully you'll still be around at rent time.*
* *Of course, that comes furnished with a disgusting old chair. Enjoy!*
* *You'll be happy to know that we just put a fresh battery in the smoke detector.*
* *Just remember, the cockroaches are more frightened of you than you are of them.*

### Renting Security Apartment

* *Just a few rules: no pets, no children, no smoking, no parties, and no jogging in the halls.*
* *You'll love it! 24-hour security, spa, exercise room and free parking for BMWs.*
* *A wise choice. Our other building has just been condemned.*
* *Oh, good! You'll fit right in...EVERYBODY there has an attitude.*
* *We've just put in a sun deck for your slow-roasting pleasure.*