hapipod is UK’s first homeshare matching site – your spare room can earn you cash & set you free to travel
Dreaming of curling your toes in soft sand and sipping your sunset cocktail, but commitments keep you at home? Having dependents, be they pets, plants or a precious home that you must keep safe, makes it hard to be spontaneous.
If you have a spare room, you have a solution.
Travelling is an expression of freedom. Perhaps you want to feel that wind in your hair as you cruise along a rugged shoreline, or volunteer your help to some worthy development project. But when you think about it, how free are you to just up-sticks when you want, or unburden yourself more completely from your home-related anxieties once you reach paradise?
What if you could offer your spare room to someone who would be available at home to provide continuity during the times you were away? This would be a mutually beneficial homeshare.
Imagine how flexible that would make your timetable. You could take off at a moment’s notice and have someone to help with your pets, watering your plants, and keeping your home generally ship-shape. And you get paid rent too to help towards bills and your mortgage.
A new lifestyle approach to shared living works like this: householders offer an affordable spare room to compatible lodgers who will give them practical help, good company, plus extra income. Lodgers gain comfortable accommodation while saving thousands of pounds a year on market rent.
There are literally millions of people who could be ideal matches for one another in this mutually beneficial living arrangement – they just need a place to meet.
That place is hapipod.com – the UK’s first practical homeshare matching site.
hapipod.com enables independent householders and lodgers of all ages to find and connect with someone ideal to tailor their own shared living arrangements, and it is helping drive a lifestyle revolution.
How hapipod.com works
Typically, lodgers provide up to 8 hours per week of their time and pay between £150-£550 per month inclusive for the room, dependent on its size and location.
Their time is given flexibly and free of charge, in exchange for a fair room price. Finding someone compatible with the right skills lets you create a more seamless, hassle-free transition between your trips and bring in extra income, leaving you to enjoy paradise more stress-free.
The most crucial element is having the right ‘chemistry’ – to live in harmony with someone in your home. Finding a like-minded spirit can also bring additional opportunities. On hapipod.com, people match by skills, personality and interests. So, you could find someone to help improve your yoga technique, for example, build your language skills, elevate your Scrabble score, or cook your favourite cuisine.
Take globe-trotting, house-proud widow, Allan, in Bradford on Avon. His joy of gardening combined with his wanderlust led him to find an ideal lodger in Grace, a landscape gardener who was relocating from London. She gave him expert help, kept his plants watered while he was away, offered great company when he was home and gave him useful extra income. You can see their short film on hapipod.
Not just Intergenerational friendship
They even stayed in touch after Grace moved on for work. They were a great example of intergenerational friendship, but homeshares can also be between people of similar ages. It works for lone householders, families or empty nesters, and hapipod lodgers range in age from their 20s through to their 70s. There are nurses, teachers, gardeners, chefs, graphic designers and people in many more occupations finding the rental market hellish and keen to find a solution in shared
living. hapipod simply enables the right people to find each other and improve one another’s lives. Rather than using your spare room to gather your junk – you could turn it into something truly bountiful!
Join at hapipod.com today to use the site entirely for free* and you could find that ideal lodger to boost your travel experience and enhance your home life.
SPECIAL OFFER: Free* 6 months access Introductory Offer if you join before midnight 31 st July 2025.
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