Running your listing

1. 1Open Add a home.
2. 2Name the home the way a case manager would recognise it in a list of search results.
3. 3Enter the street address, city and ZIP. The ZIP is what distance searching uses.
4. 4Give bedrooms and bathrooms — bedrooms in the house, not the number of beds you rent. Half bathrooms are allowed; enter 2.5 for two and a half.
5. 5Choose the kind of home and who the house serves.
6. 6Write a description. This is optional now and editable later, but it is the part a case manager reads before they ring you.
7. 7Give the contact name, telephone number and email a case manager should use.
8. 8Tick the house policies that are true. Do not tick the ones you wish were true.
9. 9Submit. The listing goes to the ILA queue and is not public until someone approves it.

Once the ILA approves it, the home appears in public search and you can add beds to it.

Every bed has a status. Four of them:

1. 1Set the room type — private or shared.
2. 2Set the monthly rate for that bed.
3. 3Set available from if the bed is not free today. A future date is shown to case managers, which is far better than a surprise.
4. 4Change the status as things move.
5. 5Press Confirm all vacancies still accurate when you are done, even if nothing changed.

If you go quiet, the ILA will send you a one-click confirmation email. Pressing the link in it is enough — you do not have to sign in.

When someone uses the contact form on your listing, it lands here with their name, how to reach them, and what they wrote.

Move each one along as it happens:

A verified coordinator posts what they need. Only operators with a home that matches it can see it. There is no general feed of requests to browse — matching decides what reaches you, and it happens in the database, not in a filter you could widen.

A request tells you the area and radius, the monthly ceiling, how many beds are needed, the date they are needed by, whether it is for men, women or either, whether a shared room is acceptable, the kind of home wanted, and any house policies that are required.

1. 1Read it, including the free-text note.
2. 2If you have something suitable, press Offer a bed.
3. 3Choose the specific bed and state the monthly rate you would charge for it.
4. 4Add a note if there is something the coordinator needs to know.
5. 5Send it.

There is no money on the desk. Nothing is paid to anyone for a referral, in either direction, at any point.

A conversation exists only because a coordinator opened one against a specific request and a specific bed. It closes when they record an outcome.

Messages on a closed conversation are blanked ninety days after it closes. The fact that the conversation happened is kept; its contents are not.

Everything except the beds themselves is edited here: name, address, description, contact, policies, deposit, who the house serves. Changes go live immediately — an edit does not send an approved home back to the queue.