Use it for gas or necessities.

Owners: Some areas pull renters who don’t care about interstate access as long as they’re close to grocery stores, schools, and daily necessities.

Depends on your market, but in general I would not trade market rent for vacancy unless I was in danger of losing the property or otherwise in financial distress and no vacancy was a necessity.

I was brought up with 1/3 rent, 1/3 save, 1/3 necessities but you can certainly do more than that. 

Most of this debt came from necessities, not luxury spending.

All out of necessity. 

It was off necessity if I wanted to grow. 

I've done it more out of a matter of necessity to stay in a price range but it makes sense if the numbers work. 

If there are utility bills, car payments, that sort of day-to-day necessity items, that's not good.2. 

This is a slippery slope, and at some point it will hit an inevitable conclusion of the unavoidable necessity of moving to a place deigned to meet there needs.