Here’s How To Rent Your Home For Film Productions

Wondering if you can rent your home for film productions? We at Peerspace are here to tell you that you absolutely can! If you’re in search of a side hustle/life hack that will earn you more money without much effort, we can help. Listing your home for productions will enhance your lifestyle without you having to take on a second (or third, or fourth, depending on your situation) job. It might sound too good to be true, but it doesn’t typically require a ton of time or money to list your space. And it could help you to easily earn added income on a relatively consistent basis. 

Renting your home for film productions is an ideal option if your home is especially beautiful or unique in some way. It doesn’t have to be super grand or ritzy. In fact, many filmmakers look for homes that, well, look like homes! Keep reading and we’ll explain how to rent your home for film productions. We’ll also provide you with examples of homes that others have successfully rented for film productions. 

Why rent your home for film productions?

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With Peerspace, you can easily rent out your home by the hour for creative projects like film productions. You can also rent it out for events if that’s your cup of tea. The alternative is typically renting it for longer stretches of time – say, by the night, as you would for an Airbnb rental. However, there are plenty of reasons you might want to avoid renting your home out by the night. You may be understandably unwilling to have strangers in your home while you’re there, or unwilling to leave your home so that others can stay there instead of you. This hardly sounds like an easy side hustle if you start having to look for other places to stay just to earn some extra cash. 

But if you rent out your home for a few hours at a time, you don’t have to worry about vacating for the night. In most cases, you can just head out to a coffee shop or to a friend’s house for a few hours or even stay in a separate part of the house while the film production uses your space. By leaving for just a few hours, you could end up making hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Of course, that will depend on how much you’re able to rent your home for per hour.

Speaking of, determining your hourly rate will depend on several factors, like:

  • Location
  • Included amenities
  • Size of the home
  • Type of decor
  • And more!

What’s the easiest way to rent your home for film productions?

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Using Peerspace as the platform for your rental makes renting your home for film productions a breeze. It is the internet’s most extensive marketplace for hourly space rentals, including but not limited to homes. On Peerspace, people rent all types of spaces for various purposes. They make book lofts for birthday parties, cabins for company offsite events, and mansions for weddings, for example.

There are tens of thousands of Peerspace listings across hundreds of cities in North America and the United Kingdom. But we’ll bet your home has something to offer that will make it stand out from the crowd among your city’s listings. 

How does adding your home to Peerspace work?

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It’s pretty simple to get started with Peerspace and begin raking in the cash from rentals. The very first step is to make a Peerspace account (more details on how to do that can be found here).

From there, make your home’s Peerspace listing. When you do this, if you’ve decided to market your home for film productions specifically, you’ll want to label it as falling into the “productions” category rather than the “events” or “offsites” category. This will allow filmmakers to find your home when they search Peerspace for filming locations. 

The next step will be waiting for the Peerspace team to look over your listing according to their requirements for live listings. If you just can’t bear the suspense of waiting, review the Peerspace policy page in the meantime. This guide will provide you with the knowledge-based tools you’ll need to be a successful Peerspace host.

Upon approval, your listing will be searchable on the Peerspace website and you can expect to start receiving inquiries regarding rentals!

Need more info? Learn more about the steps involved in becoming a Peerspace host here.

Examples: homes used for film productions

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Here are a couple of interesting examples of lovely homes that have found success marketing themselves as locations for film productions:

Spacious Newly Renovated Home in Baltimore, Maryland

This home falls on the more affordable end of the spectrum at a rental cost of about $35 per hour. Plus, it looks like an actual comfortable home that people live in, which they may do.

As one former renter who booked a film shoot here commented, “We always have a great time filming at Sean’s place. Sean is a great host and so down to earth.” Another reviewer who had a video shoot here said of their experience, “I shot a music video here. The host was very welcoming and supportive. The space looked exactly as the pictures. Will be booking again.”

Bright & Airy Gorgeous Loft | Film & Photo Shoots in Chicago, Illinois

This loft space is more costly to rent at about $125 per hour with a six-hour minimum rental period. Renters have been happy to pay that much for this high-quality space, however. In fact, it has more than 40 glowing reviews proving what an ideal space it is for film and photoshoots.

It is an early 1900s warehouse loft that has had a number of interesting past lives as a Prohibition-era distillery as well as a spring factory. It “was most recently converted into a gorgeous loft space with tremendous natural, north-facing light and an inspiring, clean Scandinavian aesthetic.” 

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