I have done this often when doing longer term contracts, we would let a house for 6 - 12 months depending on the contract length and stay there during the week and return home at the weekend. It's a surprisingly normal practice within the contractracting world to have several "teams" of people in mid-long term lets.Some consultants I used to work with would rent a house for the week together instead of travelling from London to MK everyday in the week.