Can I Stay with You....

My buddy @jwmares bounced around a similar idea with me several months ago. I know some people occasionally rent out their apartment in SF and crash at a friends house to mitigate the ridiculous housing cost in the city. @micahkulish how are you matching people up? Perhaps a doodle-like calendar picker would help people find a time they're both available.

Brilliant! And a product like this makes it easier for landlords to find tenants renting out their units on Airbnb in violation of their leases. Being in a rent controlled apartment, collecting more than you pay in rent on a daily basis and failing to get permission from your landlord are good indications of the level of risk you're taking. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encycl...

@micahkulish - can i either copy this for the UK or can you extend it to the UK?? This is f***ing awesome. Love it. I feel so stupid for not even setting up an arrangement with my friends where each month we rent one of the places out for the weekend - great way to reduce rental costs!

I definitely had a few months where I was doing this. I used a combination of friend's couches / extra beds and Hotel Tonight to pay 0 rent for 14 months in SF. It worked, but was a pain after a while so we stopped. Something like this would definitely be useful.

Obviously, check your lease if you're going to do this kind of arbitrage, but if you want to make sure you're only giving up your place for the highest priced nights, you could use @beyondpricing (http://www.beyondpricing.com) to plug in your Airbnb, find those nights, and only make it available then. We've thought about a "surge alert" feature for occasional hosts, similar to what Uber does to get more drivers on the road. Definitely useful around GDC, Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Outsidelands in SF or BC graduation in Boston, etc.

@micahkulish Cool idea. FYI, San Francisco is misspelled in the drop down menu. Might want to fix that.

This is really cool. I thought about renting my place out, and then using the funds to book a hotel in my city using @RocketMiles. That way I basically earn free airline miles and (hopefully) break even on the dollar amount.