Terms of Service

What this is right now

RemoteStay is a waitlist. Nothing on the site is bookable, no payment is taken, and no agreement exists between you and any host. Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Your account

One account per person, and one email address per account. There are no passwords: you sign in by clicking a link we email you, so keeping your inbox secure is what keeps your account secure. Until you have confirmed your address you can look around, save homes and vote, but not list a place or book one.

We may suspend an account that is used to abuse the service or anybody on it. A suspended account can still read its own records, take its data with it, and close itself.

The launch offer

Everyone who joins before we open publicly gets 50% off our fees for 14 days, counted from your first booking rather than from the day we launch — so a host whose first guest arrives months later still gets the whole of it.

It has one condition: that first booking has to happen within 90 days of launch. After that the offer lapses.

Referrals

If somebody joins with your link, you each get 10% off our fees once they actually book — a signup earns nothing on its own. It stacks up to 30%, and no further.

The two offers combine by multiplying rather than adding: with both at their maximum you pay 35% of our normal fee, not 20%. We would rather write that down than have you work it out from a bill.

A referral cannot buy you a place further up the queue. Nothing can — the position is the order people joined in and there is no mechanism to change it.

What we do not promise

We cannot say when we will open, or that there will be a home in your city when we do. That is the whole reason this is a waitlist and not a search box. Being on the list is not a reservation.

Leaving

You can close your account at any time from your account, and what that does is described in the Privacy Policy. Closing your account ends any offer attached to it.