> Take Joyce Higashi, a San Jose homeowner who built an ADU in her backyard. She now rents out her 500-square-foot abode for $3,000 per month to traveling nurses.

That's not scalping, though is it? Scalping is when somebody illicitly buys up a lot of a limited resource (e.g. concert tickets) and then pushes the price up.

What this person has done is to add to the stock of the resource (rentable property), and rent it out at the market price.

For me scalping is jacking up the prices to unreasonable levels - how he goods were obtained (bought up all tickets, or inherited a garden from grampa) doesn't matter.

Is this considered to be a reasonable price, especially for traveling healthcare workers? (Asking it, not challenging. These prices seem to be waiting for FAANG workers, at least in my eyes)