Following the Rapture Bank Crash, some citizens were left in a poor financial situation. The Sinclair Deluxe had been built by Sinclair as an inexpensive "hotel" constructed to cater to the working poor. With Sinclair’s businesses being all over Rapture, he often took an amount of time to travel place to place, his fingers against his cigarette holder as he walked through the place, making sure everything was in working order. Not that there were any changes, this place was the slums as it is.