Readiness checklist for homeowners and tenants deciding what a production may use, what must stay private and what to resolve before listing.
A private household is different from an empty location: beyond the look, a production needs working space, controllable light and sound, access, parking, power, bathrooms and room for crew and equipment. There are also personal belongings, neighbors, perhaps a landlord and rooms no one should see. Good preparation separates what a production may use from what stays protected. On SetScout you decide which inquiries to accept, and the Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and insurance before a booking.
Your home does not need to be luxurious: a believable family house, period apartment or distinctive lived-in style can fit the brief. What matters is whether camera, lighting, sound and crew can work around the image. Check rooms, ceiling height, windows, echo and outside noise, plus the garden, bathroom, kitchen, parking and support space. At the same time, set no-go areas, a realistic crew limit and a safe place for valuables, documents, medication, photos and pets.
Write house rules down early, not on the shoot day: noise and shooting hours, shoes, food and drink, pets, smoking, furniture moving, wall fixings and whether the stairwell or yard may be used. In a multi-unit building, treat the apartment and common areas separately: the entrance, doorbells, corridor, elevator, courtyard, basement and parking do not automatically come with the apartment. Clarify the loading route, crew size, quiet hours and neighbors. At booking, these rules become binding through the location contract.
As a tenant you usually need your landlord's consent; in multi-unit buildings the building management and owners' association may have a say. Resolve the consent chain and use of shared routes before publishing. Record furniture positions, sensitive surfaces, restricted areas and condition in photos; agree cleaning, trash, reset, a joint final inspection and when the home becomes private again. Decline if permission, neighbors, protection or reset cannot be resolved reliably. Before any booking, the Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and insurance.
Usually only with your landlord's consent, and in a multi-unit building the management or owners' association may also have a say. Check your lease, house rules and permission for the stairwell, elevator or courtyard before publishing. Listing itself is free, and you decide later which inquiries to accept.
Put away valuables, documents and personal photos before any visit and mark off-limits areas clearly in the listing and house rules. A documented handover condition with photos helps if something does get damaged. Before a booking, the Super Check verifies the production's insurance and secures your house rules in the standardized location contract.
Set crew size, shooting hours, noise sources, parking, loading access and an on-site contact up front. Whether and how to notify neighbors depends on the building, inquiry and agreed rules. Because you review every inquiry, you can decline productions that are too large or too loud for your building.
First, the honest part: SetScout does not guarantee compensation for damage. You are protected through the production's liability cover and the standardized location contract - SetScout's role is the contract, payment and payout, not a damage guarantee. That is exactly why the documented handover condition matters: record with before-and-after photos what state your apartment was in. Before any booking the Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and insurance, so these points are settled before you accept.
Listing is free. SetScout sends qualified inquiries, the Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and insurance before any booking, and we only earn when you earn, so we take a small 15% commission once the booking is paid and you receive your payout.
