Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Renting just a room that's not in a hotel sounds grim. Even if it's roughly the same price, hotels have the advantage of providing housekeeping, basic toiletries, maybe breakfast, maybe a F&B outlet, and if it's a chain, points and elite status credit. You can switch hotels for variety or try to negotiate a deal with one. Look also at the cost of booking a long term stay in an extended stay property. In most jurisdictions, if you stay 30 days in the same hotel room, it becomes exempt from state and local taxes.
A colleague of mine stayed in a hotel a lot at one point. When he wasn't there, they kept him on the books with no assigned room (or maybe a made-up room #, I don't recall) for a few dollars a day, so his stay would be continuous and the tax-exemption clock wouldn't restart. I think they also let him keep his stuff somewhere, though he might have used his office for that.