Thinking about Joining Crashpadder to rent out a spare room?
It was around the time of the Royal Wedding that I saw a feature on BBC World about people in London renting out rooms for a sort time through a website called "Crashpadder" so I thought I would try renting out my spare room to pay the mortgage.
My Nana Betty who brought me up died on the 5th of September 2010 and my home needed a lot of work to bring it up to standard, I had to take 4 layers of wallpaper of each wall and redecorate before I could rent any of the rooms out!
I had just finished decorating the biggest bedroom when I saw the program about crashpadder so I decided to test the waters before I had even put a bed in the room. I thought that I would put the room up for £20 a night with a double futon to see what the market for short term rentals with crashpadder was.
It was very easy to put the room up for rent to crashpadders using a photo I took of the view from my kitchen window!
I created a profile of me so that crashpadders can see who I am and a profile for my room or padthat I want to rent in under 5 minutes and the whole thing was live on the Internet ready to rent!
I then signed up for the real time updates and responded to any upcoming short stay trips to London within a week I had my first booking!
My first guest was a very well to do lady who was going to see the ballet at the O2 arena in Greenwich which is very close to my pad! Carol was the perfect guest although not as into shameless self promotion as I am. I hope to be able to feature crashpadders that stay on this blog.
I have now got 3 more bookings coming up and I am still using the photo of the view as I have not had time to download the photo's yet, I will add them to this post later so that people looking to rent a room in London will have a better idea of what they are getting for their £20!
More to follow.......
