Anyplace gives you freedom from housing problems! Make a hotel your home at a cheaper price.
Do you ever feel moving is annoying? I think everyone says yes. In San Francisco you must make at least a one year commitment and if we leave early, we have to find a subletter or face penalties. Especially, for immigrants like me, it is tough work.
Anyplace solves the problem. The service is “opposite to Airbnb”. Airbnb makes a home a hotel, but Anyplace makes a hotel a home.
For example, a hotel in downtown San Fransisco costs $160 dollars a night. If you stay there for a month, it would run you $4800. With Anyplace, however, staying for a month would only cost $1600.
We can stay at the hotel for one third of the price if we use Anyplace. A San Francisco average studio type housing rate is roughly $3000 a month, so Anyplace is way cheaper than renting an apartment. Anyplace is also a month to month subscription service.
For Users
For users, it is great service. Not only cheap, hotels also provide room cleaning service, and some hotels provide breakfast. We don’t need to set up utilities, we can get WiFi at the first day we start living.
Yes, the hotels don’t have kitchens. Some hotel don’t have laundry, but it is ok because there are a lot of on-demand service, UberEATS for food, Rinse for laundry, Omni for storage, and Getaround for car.
For Hotels
For hotels, it is also good to use. Hotels are seasonal business, but if hotel uses Anyplace, they can get steady revenue. Hotel provides 10–20% of their rooms to Anyplace. Also, everyone knows, hotels are competing with Airbnb these days. Anyplace is a new way to sell hotel rooms.
The service idea came from founders pain
The founder, Satoru Steve Naito, came from Japan four years ago. He struggled to rent his apartment because he didn’t have credit in the U.S., and he also didn’t have much money to pay deposit. That experience became a good hint of Anyplace.
He started the service last year in San Francisco, and currently provides service in Los Angeles as well. They will expand to New York and will go to more major cities in the U.S. this year.
The founder told me 70% of the users use Anyplace for temporary housing, but 30% are using it as their main house. In this sharing economy era, we will not own anything and don’t want to commit. This will be the next generation of housing.
