Solutions · Co-living
When the unit is a room.
Co-living breaks the assumption sitting underneath most property software, including some of ours: that one apartment equals one tenancy. Here a building has forty rooms, four kitchens and a hundred and twenty overlapping agreements.
What is different here
Not a variation on letting. A different job.
Several tenancies in one address
Each room is let separately, on its own dates, at its own rent, to somebody who has never met the person in the room next door.
Move-ins are rolling, not seasonal
Somebody arrives or leaves most weeks. There is no quiet period in which to fix anything.
The shared space is nobody’s and everybody’s
Kitchens and common rooms need cleaning on a schedule that belongs to the building rather than to any tenancy.
Where it breaks
The specific ways this goes wrong.
Rooms get modelled as fake apartments
The usual workaround, and it mostly works. Right up until you want to know whether the building is full, or to clean a kitchen that belongs to no room.
Common-area work has nowhere to live
It is not triggered by an arrival or a departure, so it lives on a whiteboard.
Every week is a turnover week
Rolling move-ins mean the handover process runs continuously, and anything manual in it runs continuously too.
What answers it
And where to check that we mean it.
A unit is whatever you let
Rooms are units, with their own rate, deposit, availability and tenancy. The billing meter counts them the same way, which is worth knowing before you price it.
See howTasks are not only tied to arrivals
A recurring kitchen clean is a task with a date and a person, on the same board as the handovers.
See howRolling contracts, one template
Different start dates, same agreement. Drafted from each tenancy, signed in a browser, filed against the room.
See howWhere we are the wrong answer
Worth knowing before the call, not after.
Be straight with yourself about the price: if every room is a unit and you have forty of them in one building, you are on the Growth tier, not Starter. And we do not do community management. No member app, no events, no social feed. Several co-living operators consider that half the product, and for them we are at best half a purchase.
Bring your actual portfolio
Thirty minutes against your own units and one of your own agreements. If The Quarters is not right for what you run, that’s a thing we’d rather establish now.
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