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Re:The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing by 3stripe on Sunday May 31, 2015 @03:51AM (#9633418)
I live in a rented apartment so I can't legally host on Airbnb - but I'd love to simultaneously room-swap with people in other cities when I travel... (Eg swap my place in London with someone in Berlin for a week or two)
Re:The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing by beagle3 on Sunday May 31, 2015 @04:21AM (#9633474)
I don't think you can legally do that if you can't legally host in AirBnB. You may, but e.g. my lease (before I owned my apartment) specifically limited non-family[0] stays to no more than 1 week at a time, and no more than 4 weeks per year total. On one hand, it is non-trivially onerous. On the other hand, I really liked the apartment, and I understood the rationale.

[0] the "family" was very broadly defined - e.g it explicitly included unmarried S/O and their family, and implicitly close friends. but it wouldn't have included "someone I never met and who found me on couchsurfing.org".

Re:The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing by carrotleads on Sunday May 31, 2015 @07:31AM (#9633852)
I had seen a site that does this[1] but think they are more geared to bigger residences.

May have small setups too..

[1] http://lovehomeswap.com

Re:The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing by drewmeyers24 on Monday June 01, 2015 @01:10PM (#9640302)
http://www.horizonapp.co may be able to help :)

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