Stayawhile

Stayawhile is an interconnected global network of furnished, branded, designer apartments in major cities around the world. We are already operational in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. It is our ambition to create a new category—branded medium-term housing—and to become the global leader with hundreds of thousands of branded apartments across the globe. The apartments are joined by both aesthetic and technology, which makes moving between them seamless and hassle-free.

Payments move across borders and between consumers and suppliers in one vast interconnected web with regional service hubs acting as logistics nodes.

Over the next decade, the rental apartment industry will see fundamental shifts in demographics, home ownership, and cross-border mobility. Stayawhile is situated at the nexus of these trends. Temporary housing is something that everybody needs at some point in their life, whether they are moving across great distances or are in transition (because they are moving, renovating, divorcing, changing jobs, or just keeping options open).

Stayawhile does the following things:

• REMOVES FRICTION: Moving and setting up a new apartment is difficult and expensive.
• IMPROVES TRANSPARENCY: Furnished apartments trade in the “gray market” economy through illegal sublets, Airbnb, and Craigslist.
• INCREASES CONVENIENCE: Renters can move in and out with just a suitcase.
• ENABLES NEW USE CASES: Furnished apartments not just for corporate relocation but rather for a more generally flexible lifestyle.
• LOWERS PRICE: Less expensive than hotels or corporate apartments.
• INCREASES TRUST: Better transparency for landlords.

Foreign nationals typically encounter difficulty renting apartments in markets where they do not own assets. Institutional landlords generally prefer not to rent to international clientele since it is difficult to assess their creditworthiness or to seize their assets when they are held in overseas bank accounts. Stayawhile will eliminate many of these obstacles using blockchain technology, enabling international customers to move seamlessly around the world between the everexpanding network of Stayawhile apartments, creating more of a world without borders.