New York · Prototype 01 · Recruiting now

Rota House

A distributed home infrastructure for people whose lives are already plural.

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The premise

Most people paying for space aren't using it.

The people who move most — between cities, projects, seasons, people — are the ones paying the highest premium for staying still. A full lease priced for permanence, occupied a third of the year. A second city that only ever means hotels and other people's sofas. The cost of a plural life is currently paid in duplicated rent and thin belonging.

You don't need four apartments. You need reliable belonging in four places.
Two models

Two ways to share one address.

They solve the same problem from opposite ends. One fills a house with people at the same time; the other hands a single lease around across the year. Pick one — the rest of this page, structure and budget both, follows your choice.

01

Fractional cost

You buy a share of a house, not a whole one. Anchors hold the base; everyone else buys the days they'll actually use. Nobody subsidises an empty room — least of all their own.

02

Rotational access

Rooms move through a calendar instead of sitting under one name. Flex members book nights; stewards book quarters. The house stays full, so the rent stays low.

03

Built-in resilience

A contingency reserve is priced in before the rent is set, not scraped together after someone leaves. Vacancy is a modelled input, not a crisis.

04

Embedded stewardship

Someone is always responsible for the house being a house. Stewards trade discounted long blocks for the continuity that makes rotation survivable.

Membership structure

Three ways to hold a room.

One house, three relationships to it. Each membership is priced from the same pool of nights — what changes is the length of your claim and what you give back for it.

Type 01

Anchor

Monthly · full-time room
  • A permanent room, held year-round in your name
  • Fixed monthly rate — the house's stable revenue base
  • Vote on house decisions, budget and new members
  • Storage kept between trips; you never fully move out
  • Hosting rights for guests, on the shared calendar
Type 02

Flex

Nightly · minimum 30 days a year
  • Buy the nights you'll use, from a shared rotating pool
  • Minimum commitment of 30 days per year
  • Book in advance against the house calendar
  • Same keys, same kitchen, same table — no guest status
  • Roll into an anchor seat when one opens
Type 03 Rotational

Steward

Blocks of 90 days · 50% of flex rate
  • Long blocks — 90, 180, 270 or 360 days
  • Half the nightly rate, in exchange for care of the house
  • Holds continuity: maintenance, onboarding, the rhythm
  • Rotates — stewardship is a season, not a title
  • Can be held alongside a flex or anchor seat
One solidarity fund per house. A share of the contingency line, set aside and spent by the members. It can pay for a subsidised flex seat, or for something the house needs — a repair nobody wants to argue about — or for something the street needs, which is how a house stops being only a house. It is modelled as revenue-neutral from day one: if the numbers below only work when every seat is paid at full rate, the house isn't ready to open.
Reverse budget · Coliving house · switch model ↑

Work backwards from the house you can actually afford.

Several members hold the house at once — anchors year-round, flex nights, steward blocks. Set its shape on the left; the number on the right is the maximum rent it can sustainably carry, after utilities and reserves, before anyone signs anything.

Anchor rooms
full-time seats
$ / month
Flex rooms & share pool
rotating
% of the year sold
$ / night
Steward rooms
90-day blocks
Costs & reserves
$ / month
% of gross
Members roster
Flex: min 30 days · Steward: 90/180/270/360 days · One person can hold both
All $/mo figures are annual averages — a 90-day block is paid once, then spread across 12 months
Rota House members
Every flex and steward seat, cumulated · anchors are billed separately
Member Flex days Steward days Total days $/mo avg Per year
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The network

One house. Then many.

Rota is designed to compound. Once a member holds days in one house, those days become portable — the same membership, the same standing, a different kitchen. New York first, because it is the hardest. Everything after that is easier.

Two ways in

Take a seat, or model your own.

You do not apply to a city — you apply to a house. Whatever is open sits on the Houses page: real spaces a host holds, and groups still forming. If none of them is the house you want, the calculator is where you make it.

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Applying reaches whoever holds that house, and we reply within five days.
Modelling costs nothing and commits you to nothing — publish it only if you want people to find it.
Model 03 · managed
Hold a place, but not the people?

The two models on this page are self-run — you find the members, you hold the calendar, and nobody takes a cut. If you have a place you're not always in and no one to fill it, the host model is the same arrangement managed: we seed members from the network into your empty months and run the calendar for you.

The host model →