Inventing Reality

In my country (US), we have plenty of empty homes that we don't let people live in so that the price of rent stays artificially inflated

shiiiit i'd be furious if my country had an abundance of housing. John Shareholder would be sad.

Many villas are abandoned, mere husks of concrete and alabaster, their private docks left unused. A three-bedroom apartment here can be rented for just 800 yuan ($116) a month.

Whole giant building mostly to yourself for cheap and it's next to the ocean, what's the catch?