About iStopOver

What is iStopOver?

iStopOver is the place on the Internet for short-term direct rental of excess capacity in homes and offices.

iStopOver has two main sites, iStopOver for Home Rentals which allows users to rent space in their homes to travelers looking for unique accomodations. iStopOver for Office Rentals allows users to rent excess space in offices such as extra desk space, meeting rooms or entire offices. In addition to the two main sites, iStopOver has specialty sites for events and groups such as the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

iStopOver caters specifically to direct rental of space from one person to another.

Guests (Travelers) use iStopOver for Home Rentals to find accommodation in someone’s home as an alternative to paying high hotel rates. Usually priced well below average hotel rooms, renting a room on iStopOver offers real value. You won’t find impersonal check-in, loud noise from other guests, and extra charges at every step. In many cases, it gives you the opportunity to “live like a local”.

Hosts (Homeowners/Office managers) use iStopOver to post listings to rent out excess capacity in their home or office, on a short-term basis, directly to Guests.

iStopOver is the facilitator to connect Guests to Hosts. The interaction and rental process takes place directly between the Host and the Guest – in Internet terms, a peer-to-peer process.

There are no agencies, no pressure – you deal directly with each other.

iStopOver is the home for listings. Firstly, iStopOver provides advice and tools to easily create a listing and helps Hosts think through all aspects of renting out space. Then, iStopOver brings potential Guests to the website to find their ideal listing and we facilitate communication between Hosts and Guests. Once a booking is firmed between a Host and a Guest, iStopOver makes the financial transaction safe and simple by holding the money that a Guest pays on confirmation of a reservation, and releasing it directly to the Host, when a Guest checks in.

iStopOver for Home Rentals facilitates short-term home-away-from-home B&B style accommodation with good, old- fashioned value. We believe that someone, halfway around the world, is as much your neighbor as the guy next door, it's just a longer walk to borrow a cup of sugar.

Who is iStopOver?

iStopOver is part of Brightspark 3.0 Inc, Canada’s leading startup experts. Brightspark’s founders and managers are experienced technology entrepreneurs that have been creating and running Software and Internet businesses for over 25 years. Brightspark’s focus is to build and operate market leading Internet businesses.

iStopOver is always growing and evolving and, as a result, is always looking to improve our website. Therefore, if you have any suggestions or comments, please email us at info@istopover.com.

   

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