An app allows people to rent out spaces, including homes, backyards, and bars, for special events or business purposes.
Peerspace, according to founder and Chief Strategy Officer Rony Chammas, is a “Airbnb for events.”
“Depending on your space, if you're a homeowner and you have a wonderful backyard and a pool, you could allow someone to have an event there,” Chammas explained to KNX News. “It could be a graduation party, it could be some kind of social gathering. If you're a commercial space, let's say a photography studio, you can obviously open your doors for any kind of photo or video shoot, and then we have more traditional event venues like bars and restaurants where they host sort of traditional events and other kinds of corporate and social gatherings.”
He said the app has also been used for business purposes.
“We've had celebrities use Peerspace for photo shoots, for music videos,” he said. “We've had people start businesses in Peerspace. YouTube creators use us. The versatility and the diversity of activities is really what makes the platform special.”
Chammas said if there’s an issue, Peerspace does have coverage.
“So the first is the supplemental liability coverage that provides up to $1 million in liability coverage, and then the second is a property damage guarantee where, if something were to break, for example, or someone spills wine on your couch, our property damage guarantee would support you in that in that case,” he said.
Heather Cole listed her home on the app. She told KNX News it's a good way to make money in a short amount of time, adding that she’s made $2,000 off two events.
“We've had two birthday parties [at her home],” she said. “One was for a one-year-old and one was for a 30-year-old.”
Both parties, she said, were about eight hours each.
“[The guests] just get to use the space. The bathrooms inside, the kitchen, the dining room table,” she said. “If people want to come inside and hang out, they get access to, you know, everything outside, and both parties paid me to clean up.”
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Chammas urged hosts who use the app to do “what’s comfortable for themselves.”
“I think it's a good idea if you have a pool to request that there's a lifeguard or an adult that's always monitoring the pool if there's kids, for example,” he said. “If you prefer not to have drinking on your property, you can add that as a host rule and make sure that no drinking takes place. So really it's about your own level of comfort and also what's allowed by law.”
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