Students in Australia have been displaying brutal entrepreneurial traits by renting out mattress space for as much as 48 to overseas pupils.The Brisbane Times says one area is so full of students that some homes have dozens of people renting individual mattresses.Maria Reis, principal of Queensland Property Investment Solutions, said in one 12-bedroomed house where a man was renting the property for 292 per week, he was making the equivalent of 3,193 a week with unauthorised subletting.She told the paper: "They don't rent rooms, they rent mattress space, and it doesn't matter whether it is in a bedroom or not. We've seen mattresses being rented in hallways, on closed balconies... it is appalling. It's like living in prison."One bunch of people who won't be struggling for space are the England team, who have been promised bigger beds for World Cup squad members such as Peter Crouch at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus.
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