‘THAT’S OUR STORY — FUNDING A SHARING ECONOMY WITH THE SHARING ECONOMY’

three of them have been living for months. They rent out their other two rooms on Airbnb, the site that allows people to make money from their spare rooms. They pay £2,400 per month for their flat on the second floor of a functional brick block, and can get £60 per night for the bigger room on Airbnb and £40 for the smaller one. If they rent out both for 24 days a month, the flat pays for itself. Achieve full occupancy and it starts contributing to the costs of their fledgling business.

‘If you had told me half a year ago, I would have thought that’s crazy — staying in one room, and having people to our house every second day,’ says Wei, but he claims it has turned out to be fun. However, there is an elephant in the room. What happens when they bring prospective partners over? They laugh. ‘That’s the issue,’ says Kaplansky, the