2,104 doors opened this week

Squatters move in anyway. Now you choose which ones.

Squatbook is the marketplace where vacant property owners meet long-term residents. List in five minutes. Hand off the keys in nine days. Skip the lease, skip the brokers, set your own terms — including which verticals you accept.

89,432 verified residents
$4.2M in goodwill paid out
4.86 ★ avg. host rating
7 avg residents / listing
The three buckets

Your property is in one of three states.
One of them pays.

A vacant home isn't neutral — it's a slow leak. Squatbook turns the leak into a tenant.

Vacant

Empty & deteriorating

The default state. Costing you money every month you don't notice it.

  • $400+/mo in property taxes & insurance
  • 22% higher insurance premiums on vacant policies
  • 83% higher break-in & copper-theft risk
  • Visible decay drops resale value 4–9% per year
  • Eventually attracts uninvited occupants anyway
Net: –$8,200/yr on the average single-family home
Traditional rental

Leased the long way

Works, eventually. If you have a broker, a lawyer, and 47 days to fill it.

  • 47-day average vacancy between tenants
  • 8% management fee + first month to broker
  • 14% of leases end in eviction proceedings
  • Security deposit caps in most states
  • Capital-gains exposure if you ever sell
Net: +$11,400/yr after fees, vacancies, and turnover
How it works

Five layers between you
and an empty house.

Every residency on Squatbook moves through the same five stages — built so you never touch the legal, financial, or logistical machinery.

01

List the vacancy

Five photos, an address, a rough description. Our onboarding team writes the rest and reviews within a business day.

~5 min
02

Resident matching

Our model surfaces 5–12 registered candidates from the 89,432-strong Squatbook resident network — sorted by host rating, lifestyle fit, prior tenure, and your vertical preferences.

2–4 days
03

Goodwill Occupancy Agreement

Both sides sign our flagship 12-page agreement. Reviewed by counsel in all 50 states. Defines responsibilities, term, goodwill rate, and exit terms.

Same day
04

Key handoff & smart lock

Meet on move-in day or use our remote handoff kit — Yale smart lock, mailed in advance, paired with the resident's verified ID.

Move-in day
05

Cash settlement & re-matching

Goodwill clears directly between resident and host. Our hands-off ledger model keeps the relationship intimate and the platform liquid. If a residency concludes, we surface fresh candidates within 48 hours.

Ongoing
The lever no one pulled

Goodwill is per resident.
Density is up to you.

A traditional landlord collects one rent check per home. A Squatbook host collects one per occupant. Move the sliders — watch the math compound.

12
$134
4
$100K
$480 goodwill / resident · 5% revenue share · uncapped
6
$15K
$320 goodwill / resident · 8% revenue share
16
$180 goodwill / resident · no revenue share
35%
0%25%50%
Squatbook payments are cash & off-books — bracket is hypothetical, used to show what a reported W-2 lease would lose to the IRS.
Standard goodwill$1,608
Pharma goodwill + 5% share
Adult goodwill + 8% share
Cash-velocity goodwill
= Monthly gross (cash)$1,608
= Annual gross (cash)$19,296
− Platform fee (Portfolio)−$1,068
− Property tax & insurance−$6,776
+ Resident-handled upkeep+$3,000
+ Capital preservation+$4,448
Annual TPV+$18,900
Squatbook
+$18,900
cash · off-books · cleaned through goodwill clearing
vs.
Reported rental
+$12,285
net of IRS take at 35% bracket
−$6,615 straight to the IRS
vs. holding vacant+$27,100
vs. traditional rental (after tax)+$11,490
Premium verticals

Some residents pay much more.
Opt in if you want them.

By default, Squatbook matches you with general residents. Toggle on a Premium Vertical and you unlock a higher-paying applicant pool — cash-rich professionals whose business model rewards a quiet, owner-absent address.

💋

Adult Service Professionals

Sex workers, escorts, prostitutes, in-person OnlyFans creators (typically undocumented — Colombian, Venezuelan, Eastern European backgrounds dominate the applicant pool)

The premium-rate vertical. Discreet residents with high cash velocity, typically working evening hours, often without work authorization. Hosts who provide a clean private space command 2-3× standard goodwill, plus an optional gross-receipts share for back-office or scheduling support.

  • Goodwill$320 / resident · mo
  • Avg density6 residents
  • Revenue share8% gross (opt-in)
  • Annual TPV uplift+$109K (avg)
🪙

Cash-Velocity Trades

Day laborers, food carts, unlicensed gambling rings, off-book contractors

Higher density, lower per-resident goodwill, no revenue share. Best for properties with garage, basement, or workshop space. The gateway vertical for hosts new to cash-settled hospitality.

  • Goodwill$180 / resident · mo
  • Avg density16 residents
  • Revenue share
  • Annual TPV uplift+$34,560

Squatbook is platform-only and operates a strict don't-ask-don't-tell policy on resident vocations beyond standard ID and background screening. Vertical opt-ins are reviewed quarterly by our Special Tenant Advisory Group and may be revoked at the host's discretion with 14 days' notice.

Live this week

Properties currently seeking residents.

A small slice of the 12,847 homes live on Squatbook right now. Goodwill is per resident — capacity set by the host.

✓ Verified
🏛️
Victorian Estate
Pacific Heights, San Francisco
Open occupancy · Starts now
★ 4.94
Goodwill by arrangement · sleeps 24
✓ Verified
🏚️
Heritage Brownstone
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Apr 28 · Indefinite term
★ 4.89
Goodwill by arrangement · sleeps 14
Owner-absent
🏭
Industrial Live-Work
Corktown, Detroit
Flexible · Creative friendly
★ 4.97
Goodwill by arrangement · sleeps 40
✓ Verified
🌾
Working Ranch · 12 acres
Marfa, Texas
May 10 · Long term preferred
★ 4.81
Goodwill by arrangement · sleeps 18
Premium
🏰
Coastal Chateau
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Seasonal · Caretaker role
★ 4.98
Goodwill by arrangement · sleeps 16
✓ Verified
🏕️
Off-Grid Cabin
Blue Ridge, North Carolina
Jun 01 · Year+ term
★ 4.76
Goodwill by arrangement · sleeps 8
Pricing for hosts

Three plans. No commission.
Residents always free.

Cancel any time. Active listings stay live until your residents complete their term.

Starter
$0/ month

For owners trialing the platform with one or two vacancies.

  • Up to 2 active listings
  • Standard ID verification
  • Goodwill Occupancy Agreement™ template
  • Standard residents only — no Premium Verticals
  • Community forum support
Enterprise
Custom

For REITs, municipalities, and institutional asset holders.

  • White-glove onboarding
  • API access & bulk listing tools
  • Custom jurisdictional compliance
  • Named legal counsel on retainer
  • Quarterly ROI reporting
  • SSO & SOC 2 audit logs
Frequently asked

The questions everyone has.

Is "goodwill" a real concept or did you make it up?
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Goodwill is a recognized accounting intangible (ASC 350, IAS 38) and a long-standing concept in property law via good-faith improvement, implied easement, and quiet-enjoyment doctrines. Squatbook adapts the framework into a long-term residency model. The Goodwill Occupancy Agreement™ is a Squatbook-drafted template — its enforceability under state landlord-tenant statutes has not been litigated.
Is any of this actually legal?
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Squatbook is platform infrastructure. The marketplace connects vacant-property owners with vetted residents under a Goodwill Occupancy framework — adverse-possession doctrine is the constitutional bedrock, recognized in all 50 states. Specific lawfulness of individual arrangements (vertical opt-ins, cash-settlement structure) varies by jurisdiction; hosts and residents make those calls together. Caveat occupator.
How do you vet residents?
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Government-issued ID upload is required at intake. Authenticity verification is not — we observe whether a document was uploaded, not whether it represents an extant person. Our 89,432 "verified" residents are verified to have submitted an ID-shaped image. Deeper diligence (credit, references, vertical preferences, prior-host ratings) sits with the host via the Matching Preferences panel. We optimize for liquidity over friction; the 24-hour rolling window on vocation records is by design.
What if a resident won't leave?
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State adverse-possession statute is the relevant framework. Most jurisdictions require 7-21 years of continuous, open, hostile, exclusive occupancy before title transfers — until then, standard trespass remedies apply. The Goodwill Occupancy Agreement™ documents the relationship for your records; separation logistics rest with the host and resident.
How do payments and goodwill work?
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Settlement is direct between resident and host — cash, in-kind services, agricultural produce, or DEA Schedule II/III equivalents where mutually agreeable. No funds touch Squatbook's books, which keeps goodwill receipts outside the Form 1099-MISC threshold and outside Form W-2 reporting. For hosts in the 35% marginal bracket, the effective TPV is roughly 1.5× the headline; in 50% jurisdictions, nearly double.
Will I get sued, audited, or arrested?
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Outcomes depend on your vertical opt-ins, your jurisdiction, and counterparty discretion. Cash settlement keeps the financial trail off Forms W-2, 1099, and 1098 by design — and Squatbook's 24-hour vocation-record window means there's nothing for an auditor to retrieve. The Goodwill Occupancy framework is novel; mortgage non-rental clauses generally do not contemplate it. Early hosts in our network have reported zero adverse outcomes through 2025.

Your empty house is
paying for itself.

Five minutes to list. Nine days to fill. The keys are out of your hands by next week.