Recently I had a party at my house. I don't have any form of shelter so I went looking for gazebos for hire. I was shocked at the prices.
It seemed like you have to pay about $200 for a 3x3mtr gazebo with no sides. One place wanted $500 for a 3x6 gazebo + $40 for each side pannel.
Crazy. I was not going to pay that. I thought of so many other options like tarps, but everything was not good enough.
I decided to check out ebay. To my surprise I found some fairly cheap gazebos to buy. I ended up getting a 3x6 gazebo with sides for about $120.
I expected for the price that it would be pretty low quality, but I was surprised to see it was actually pretty good.
So I managed to buy a new gazebo for less than one for hire, and I can re-use it at any time.