I have what is basically a fly-in fly-out job in a South American country, and when I’m off (we call it descanso) sometimes instead of flying back to my home country I hang out in the capital city. I used to do short-term rentals for descanso, but when my contract was renewed for another year, I decided buy an apartment. (Buying an apt also helped with my legal money-laundering, because I had to be paid my per-diem in local currency, and it was almost impossible to convert the local currency to my home country’s currency.)
I’d been working in that country for a few years already and I made a few local friends in the capital, and one them was a non-exclusive girlfriend/fwb/something named Claudia (not her real name). I trusted her so I asked her to move into my apartment to keep it occupied and also because we often spent all our time together when I was off anyway, and so she did.