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Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:44:48 -0000

I've recently stored some furniture at http://www.kangarooselfstor... (cool company with great people). I was offered space at a friends house, but I just knew it would lead to problems - I don't know how long I'll need to store for, getting my stuff up their stairs was just not going to be fun etc.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

John Santiago — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:12:30 -0000

@Tom Kerswill - It does come up if you search the correct spelling of their name, Homstie not Homestie

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Tom Kerswill — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:25:22 -0000

Hmmm.... following the link to homestie.com just takes you to a blank page. Google homesite, and you won't even see if on the front page (Google asks, "Did you mean homesite). Even doing a search for "site:homestie.com" reveals that Google doesn't know about the site. The only listings that mention it are related to Mashable.... I reckon they'll need to do a bit of SEO to get widespread adoption on this one!

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Amy Clark — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:32:19 -0000

This is a cool idea - will be really interesting to see how this takes off. The issue of trust is very interesting and potentially a huge obstacle to overcome. I work for Big Yellow Self Storage http://www.bigyellow.co.uk/ based in the UK and one of the reasons people turn to storage facilities like ours is the fact that they know it's secure, easy to use and inexpensive. I suppose a huge issue is whether people are willing to risk any of these things in the name of a freebie. Will be watching this space to see how this develops!

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Jim Belfiore — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:11:14 -0000

I proposed a similar idea to re-invent the automobile industry last year. (Commercial parking lots are full of cars that can be thought of as mobile lockers with predictable volume and path characteristics for optimized small storage and delivery.) It makes a lot of sense.

You can read the article here: http://andromeda-30.blogspo...

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Michael Olsen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:02:01 -0000

Meh, I wouldn't want leave my stuff at a strangers house.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Sebastian — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:02:07 -0000

Hey Adam,

Mashable was once a really cool site, but as more and more writers have joined, it's simply not that appealing anymore. The main reason for this is that many people have been hired who seem not to have a clue what they are writing about. One example ... if you would be passionate about new Internet companies and services you wouldn't write "Homstie is a really smart idea ...". You wanna know why? Because there already has been such a site in the US about 2 years ago and there is another online since a couple of years in Germany. In case they have paid you to call their service nevermind. But if not, then please stop praising an idea, which is just a 100% copycat.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Sebastian — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:53:07 -0000

Hey Adam,

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

mattmcb — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:35:06 -0000

What an interesting idea and great timing during the recession... I wonder if it will take off.
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Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Whitney — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:55:52 -0000

The problem here is not only the trust issue, but what happens if people don't pay? Do you get to pawn their stuff? Is it covered by your homeowner's and renter's insurance? What happens if your water heater breaks and ruins their stuff? What happens if your stuff is damaged at their place? Maybe we should consider having a garage sale and downsizing rather than park our stash all over the place.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Tomas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:01:19 -0000

When i found some space and contact home owner, how do you prevent us to go around you?

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

CruxG — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:39:11 -0000

The genius idea would be tying this in with an extermination service to rid your house of other people's bugs.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

cmdigitalmedia — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:28:22 -0000

How do you keep people from stealing your stuff? If for instance you borrow their bedroom to store your stuff, what keeps them from going thru it, or perhaps stealing it?

On the other side of the issue: You could have a drug dealer deposit his 'inventory' in your house to keep it out of the eyes of police, but if something happened, then you would be liable for the 'inventory.'

This is a bad idea. I wouldn't participate.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Ethan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:22:31 -0000

I have to say that I am rather skeptical about this service succeeding on a large scale. I imagine most of their success will come through the sale of parking spaces in high demand areas.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Ethan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:20:26 -0000

I have to admit that I am fairly skeptical about this service working out on a large scale, but I do imagine that it will work the best (be the most successful) if people have parking space in high demand areas that the can sell.

Re: Homstie: Sell Your Empty Rooms as Storage Space

Debo Hobo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:13:27 -0000

That is an awesome idea....

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Kaila S | Vertical Measures — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:10:54 -0000

Interesting site, thanks for sharing. I love finding new and interesting sites that I might use one day....too bad my list of those sites is ever growing and when I need to utilize them I have already forgotten what site it was that would help, lol.