Why Baymity exists · The supplier’s side
A parking space you never wanted. A bill that arrives every month.
You finally find a student flat. There is just one catch: the underground parking space comes with it. You do not own a car. The rent still leaves your account every month.
Baymity
Imagine you are a student looking for somewhere to live. You have refreshed the housing listings so often that you recognise the kitchens before reading the addresses. Then, finally, a flat works out. Close enough to campus. Enough room for a desk. Yours.
There is a catch: you have to rent the underground parking space with the apartment.
You have a bicycle, a student travel pass and no car. You ask whether you can take just the flat. The answer is no. With a sense of resignation, you sign.
On moving day, someone hands you a garage key. Downstairs, between two painted lines, is the space you will be paying for. You stand there for a moment with your backpack on, the key still in your hand. Your bicycle is upstairs. Nothing is coming to fill this space.
An empty space, a very real expense
The first payment disappears into the costs of moving. The second is harder to ignore. By the third, it strikes like a punch in the stomach. Parking rent. Again.
On a student budget, that money has other possible lives: groceries, a replacement bike tyre, the train home, a little breathing room at the end of the month. Instead, it pays for a rectangle of concrete you walk past on the way to the laundry room.
You are keeping your side of the agreement every month. Yet the thing you pay for is doing nothing for your daily life. That is what makes it frustrating: a cost you did not choose, for something you cannot use.
You have room. Someone nearby needs it.
One evening, a friend comes over. The message arrives: “I’m nearby. Still looking for parking.”
You look at the garage key on your desk. Downstairs, your space is empty. Outside, someone needs exactly that much room.
That small mismatch is one of the reasons Baymity exists. An unused space can have real value to someone visiting the building or neighbourhood. The difficulty is helping that person find it, agree a time and know how to get in. A space behind a closed garage door cannot do that on its own.
What if the space could contribute to its own rent?
Before offering a rented space, check your agreement and arrange any permission needed with your landlord or building management. A space being empty does not automatically mean you can offer it to others. A clear arrangement gives you a sound place to start.
Once that is sorted, the practical details are straightforward. You set the times the space is free, the price, and the arrival instructions — which bay it is, how the guest gets into the garage, and who to message if the door needs opening. Both sides know the arrangement before the guest sets off.
Baymity lets you publish a parking space with its price, available times and arrival instructions. You complete the supplier setup, including payment setup, so eligible guests can book available periods. Your space becomes something people can find and pay to use.
A recurring cost can meet recurring income
The rent comes around every month. Bookings could start bringing money in as well. If your space is regularly available, Baymity’s recurring availability settings let you publish that pattern and block exceptions when your plans change.
Think of a first paid booking, then another on a later evening. As bookings repeat, the space can begin contributing towards the bill that used to be entirely yours to carry. That is the useful meaning of turning it into an asset: putting a resource you already pay for to work.
Publishing a repeating schedule makes the space available; guests still need to book it. What you earn depends on demand, your prices and availability, and applicable fees. Even a contribution towards the monthly cost can make a difference when every expense has to justify its place in the budget.
The space stays the same. What it does for you changes.
For the guest, a booking may mean an easier visit, a shorter walk through the rain and clear arrangements for parking. For you, it is an opportunity to receive something from a space that has only been costing you money.
There is some care involved: accurate details, a current calendar and an access arrangement that works. Those small things help make a booking useful to both people. You bring the available space; the visitor brings a reason to use it.
The next time a friend messages that they are nearby and still looking, you can send the booking link instead of an apology. They pull in, follow the instructions to your bay, and arrive at your door with less of the evening spent circling. Downstairs, the space that used to be the punch in the stomach has started to answer some of its own rent. The garage key on your desk begins to mean something different.
If your space sits empty most of the time and your agreement allows it, listing the hours you already know you do not need is the simplest place to start. And if you are the one heading to a friend’s and dreading the search, look for a space near the address before you leave. The difference is usually a shorter walk and a quieter mind at the table.
Those are two sides of the same idea, and both belong at the heart of Baymity.