Homees is a new startup created by two good friends - Adam & Aiden 🫂
That's us
We both grew up and live in Sydney and wanted to help out our community. Homees was created for Sydney locals, by Sydney locals.
We both worked as programmers 👨💻 for about 5 years before deciding to work on Homees.
It all started at the end of 2022 when we both went away on holidays at the same time 🏝️ Aiden off to London 🇬🇧, Adam off to Vietnam 🇻🇳. As you do, we wanted to avoid losing money on our rent, so we could spend our hard earned money enjoying our holiday instead of paying for an unused space.
We both battled trying to find someone to cover our rent while we were gone, eventually both settling for a mate to stay, but not for the full duration. Not ideal and we both lost money.
We knew there were platforms out there to help us list, but they take too long to use, are ugly and annoying, and didn't have high odds of finding what we wanted while we were busy trying to plan our trip
The goal of Homees is to solve this problem. We want to help people avoid paying their rent while they're away on holiday, and as a result, we offer a no-brainer benefit for guests over traditional platforms like Airbnb. That is, guests pay local rent prices rather than bloated serviced apartment prices, which is significantly cheaper and can save hundreds, if not thousands over a 1-6 month stay (just check yourself).
So, cheaper for guests, and faster/better for hosts.
We've both personally dealt with most of the problems ourself, and have been personally matching guests and listers ourselves, something big companies can't and won't do.
Beyond the price savings mentioned above, you've probably also experienced how disorganised Facebook groups are for finding a place. No saving functionality, no filtering by price, no filtering by locations. The reason is because they're not designed to be marketplaces, they're feeds.
Homees makes it easier by aggregating all the listings on a platform actually designed to be a marketplace, making it easier for you to find a place you're after 🌿
Lastly, if you go through Facebook and you encounter any issues with the place, you're stuck solving the issue yourself. In those unlikely situations, we're here to personally help.
Find a placeThe reason you should list with us is simple: It takes about 2 minutes, it's free to list until we find a match, and it increases your chances of finding a guest. If you can find a guest somewhere else, great. If not, you're just improving your odds.
Homees also helps by organising the legal agreements you'll want, since we've done it a bunch of times. It'd be weird if you already had all that as someone just going away on holidays.
Lastly, we're also here to help handle disputes, cancellations, and we handle chasing up the rent while you're away, so you can enjoy your trip stress-free 🧘
List your placeSend us a message on our contact page, send us a message on instagram, or check out our FAQ