Rentals

Rentals refers to renting out rooms, unlocked at a reputation level of 8. It's a good idea to purchase and make the necessary furnishings before paying the gold to unlock the rooms. Rooms are unlocked in pairs for 1 gold at a time, up to a total of 6 rooms.

Each room must be minimally furnished with a Bed, a Single Table, a Stool, and a light source, as listed at the right hand side of the screen upon entering a room. The least expensive way to get these furnishings is to use your Building recipes to make the table and stool, and to buy a wall Candle. The bed must be purchased from the Furniture Catalog. If you buy these minimum furnishings, the cost per room is 1g 31s 5 c. At 40 silver a night, the rooms return the cost of opening them in 4 days. Rooms also have a Comfort rating, so increasing the rating leads to more reputation gain, and you can haggle for higher rental rates.. Very High improvement Comfort items pay for themselves very quickly and return much higher profits. Make sure to keep each room clean, otherwise you will lose reputation.

Boosting the comfort level of the room increases the amount of reputation the customers are willing to give for staying in the room. Place a Teddy Bear on the bed for largest boost in comfort for the least expense. Indoor Plants, Cobwebs, Ink, Braziers (paradoxically placed on the walls), Old Doormats, and Small Rugs, all found in the Décor catalog, are worthwhile investments. The rooms vary in size and in their base comfort. The last upper room to open includes a large window, which has a comfort boost of 15 but is also very expensive to buy. The lower rooms don't have space for windows.

To rent rooms, your customers come up to the bar, and a bed icon appears in their speech bubbles. (The Bartender will not book rooms for you, so it might be useful to have a Floor Worker hired to keep up with the tables while you are booking rooms.) Click to Serve on their speech bubbles, and you will see the amount of money they are offering for a night of rental, along with buttons to Accept, Haggle, or Decline their offers, and a mini-map of the rooms with those already rented tinted green, and those not yet unlocked shaded with grey. You may immediately decide to Decline their offer. If you don't, select the room you choose to assign them and choose either to Accept their offer or to Haggle. If you haggle, they will either decline and leave, giving you -25 reputation, or they will offer a higher amount. Accept or Decline this higher amount to finish the transaction. For a room well kitted out with High or Very High comfort décor, 40 to 60 silver per night per room is not unreasonable.

The customers then go directly to the room. They will leave the next day, and can be encouraged to leave earlier by knocking on their door. The only way to see the Reputation they give you is to be upstairs as they leave. As kitted out with the above recommended décor items, Reputation given can be in a range similar to what food and drink customers give.

If you do not hire and automatically renew having the Housekeeper, you must be attentive about keeping the room tidy in between guests. To automate the hiring of any staff member, click the dot in the center of the person's bar on the Hiring page. The Housekeeper is well worth the 10 silver per room per day that they cost.