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Martin, 34, software engineer, lives in a quiet 1970s house in Vienna-Favoriten. He has a 25 m² basement he hasn’t entered since 2019.
Last month he became BoxBox’s first live cash private host in Austria — and the photo of his “key & cash drawer”
Martin saw our Instagram ad in September: “Turn your empty basement into cash — zero effort.”
He laughed, took three phone photos of the dusty room, typed “25 m², dry, separate entrance, Wien 10”, set the price to €350/month (he thought that was optimistic) and hit publish.
Within 48 hours:
BoxBox AI handled every chat, every contract, every payment. Martin didn't have to do anything besides taking pictures and hit publish.
“I thought it wasn't real until the money landed. Now my wife wants to list the garage too.”
It’s the perfect symbol of what BoxBox actually does.
We didn’t build a new warehouse. We didn’t install a single smart lock (yet). We just turned Martin’s forgotten basement into a silent, boring, ridiculously profitable little business.
No meetings. No strangers in the house. Just money appearing in the drawer every month.
We’re rolling out cash-option for storage bookings in Austria, Czechia and Slovakia — and here’s the dead-simple reason:
60–70 % of private hosts in Central Europe still prefer cash.
They don’t want bank transfers, Stripe fees, or waiting 24 hours for payout. They want the renter to hand over the envelope when they pick up the key — just like they’ve done with neighbours for the last 20 years.
So we gave them exactly that, but without the 1990s hassle:
If you have a basement, garage, attic, or even an empty wardrobe in Austria, that drawer is waiting for you.
→ List it in 90 seconds: boxbox.com/host/at
Cash is king in Central Europe. We just made it work with an app.
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