Taylor Swift Fans Joke It's Cheaper To Rent Her House Than Get Tour Tickets

Taylor Swift fans have joked online that it is cheaper to rent her New York City apartment than to buy tickets for her upcoming tour.

This week the Midnights signer's Cornelia Street townhouse was listed on the market to rent for $45,000 a month.

The singer/songwriter's Eras tour tickets went on presale on Tuesday, when a huge demand for tickets resulted in fans being stuck in online queues and the Ticketmaster website crashing completely.

Currently, tickets are confined to the resale market, where tickets have been listed on sites like StubHub for upwards of $76,000.

Learning that Swift's townhouse was available for rent, fans headed to the internet to joke that it would be "cheaper than her tickets" to rent her townhouse.

One Twitter user wrote: "The real choice: Rent Taylor Swift's NYC townhouse for a month, or buy two tickets to one of her concerts."

"Good news Swifties," announced another Twitter user. "For the resale price of her tour tickets you'll inevitably buy, you can just live in Taylor Swift's townhouse for a month. Choose wisely."

Fans have been left distraught over the ticket disaster, and one fan even referred to the mishap as "my 9/11." Despite this, some fans have revealed that they have dropped huge sums on tickets to see their favorite singer.

Adrian Bossey is head of business and experience design at Falmouth University in the U.K. and was previously an artist manager whose clients included Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.

He told Newsweek: "Hugely popular artists like Taylor Swift often create a level of demand for tickets which is effectively impossible to fulfil due to the limitations of venue capacities and artist availability. Hence a vibrant secondary ticketing market is created, which is itself further stimulated by individuals attempting to buy tickets in order to sell them on.

"If a fan pays the reported $22,700 for a Taylor Swift ticket, a third party is syphoning off tens of thousands of dollars which are not being used to improve the experience at the concert for attendees—or even add to Taylor Swift's bucket-list fund! Whilst paying more does not physically improve any part of the experience it may give individuals who have the means to pay the inflated prices some feeling of satisfaction.

"High ticket prices further embed the growing inherent lack of inclusion at live concerts for big name acts by pricing out more potential attendees."

Looking at resale prices reaching tens of thousands of dollars, many fans on Twitter seemed to agree that the rental was a better value option. One commenter said: "Who needs Taylor Swift tickets when you can rent her place on Cornelia Street for a whole month for the same price."