How Short Term Stays Work

No. Flathive is a listing platform. Owners and flatmates list a furnished room, and renters find it and message them. There's no booking, no calendar and no checkout. Everything after the first message is agreed directly between the renter and the person who listed the room.

We show your listing and let people message each other. We don't recommend renters or flatmates, we don't screen, vet or background-check anyone, we don't collect or hold rent or bond, and we're not a party to any agreement between you. We don't offer insurance, damage protection, refunds or dispute resolution for stays.

The person listing the room, whether that's the landlord or a flatmate. It's up to you to decide who stays. Talk to them properly first: a video call or a meeting, photo ID, references from a previous landlord or employer, and a clear written agreement covering dates, rent, bond and house rules. If something doesn't feel right, you don't have to go ahead.

The person who listed the room. As the landlord or flatmate offering the stay, you're responsible for your property and for dealing with any damage, including recovering costs from the person who stayed under the terms you agreed with them. Flathive isn't responsible for damage and doesn't cover it. Agree a bond and what it covers before the stay, and check that your insurance covers short-term guests.

Sort it out with the other person under the agreement you made. Flathive can't step in to refund money or settle disputes about a stay. If you think a listing or a user is a scam, or someone breaks our Terms, report it to us and we'll look into it.

Only if you're allowed to. Check your tenancy agreement and get your landlord's permission before you have short-stay guests, and check any local rules on short-term letting.

A furnished room you can rent for 1 week to 3 months. Stays are in weeks, and there are no nightly stays. Each owner sets the shortest and longest stay they accept.

On the Short Term Stay tab, enter where you want to stay and your move-in and move-out dates. You'll see places that accept a stay of that length, cheapest first. You can also set a maximum weekly rent or show only places with bills included.

The price shown is the weekly short-stay rent, starting from the cheapest furnished room. It's advertised at least 10% above the normal weekly rent, because the stay is shorter. That's a starting point: the price you actually pay is whatever you and the owner or flatmate agree, and it can be higher or lower. Flathive adds no booking, cleaning or service fees. Ask whether bills are included and whether they want a bond.

Yes. Only fully furnished rooms can be listed for short stays. Check the listing or ask the owner what's included.

You don't book through Flathive. Log in and message the owner or flatmate from the listing. Your enquiry is marked as a short stay. You agree the room, dates, price, bond and payment with them directly, so get it in writing before you pay anything.

On the Rooms step of your listing, tick "Also offer this place for short stays", choose your price and how long people can stay, then pay the listing fee to publish. To add it to a live listing, edit the Rooms step and republish: your listing moves to draft until you've paid, while a featured ad stays live.

Yes. Flathive only allows furnished rooms to be offered as short stays, so at least one room in the listing must be fully furnished. Partly furnished rooms don't count. If the listing no longer has a furnished room, short stays switch off automatically.

Short stays are switched on for the whole listing. Renters see your furnished rooms, and you agree which room suits them when you talk in messages.

You set one percentage above your weekly rent, and each furnished room is advertised at its own rent plus that percentage. We recommend 10%, because shorter stays mean more changeovers and cleaning. For example, at 10% a $300 room is advertised at $330 a week. The advertised price isn't set in stone: you and the renter can agree a higher or lower price between you. Your normal listing keeps its normal rent.

You choose a shortest stay of 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month, and a longest stay of up to 3 months. Stays are in weeks, and there are no nightly stays.

$5 per listing, paid once. It covers every room in the listing. You pay it when you publish, and a listing with short stays switched on can't be published without it. If you deactivate the listing, the fee is due again when you republish it with short stays on.

In both places: the Rooms tab at your normal rent, and the Short Term Stay tab at the short-stay price. It's one listing, with the same photos and details.

Their enquiry arrives in your normal inbox as a separate conversation with a Short Term Stay badge, and you can filter your inbox to see only those. Notifications say "short stay" too.