[ZiggyD]

G'day!

I'm starting to gather some contacts for people that might be interested in living in a full time Pro-Gaming/Streaming/YouTubing house withing a couple of months.

BACK STORY
A while back I went full time on YouTube and will be moving into streaming myself in the next few months. The problem is I currently have 0.8mb/s upload speed... I'm sure many of you share my frustrations here.

Me and my girlfriend Amy have been looking for houses with NBN and have found that getting a house for reasonable rent for two people with *cable* NBN is rather difficult. Fixed Wireless locations is a backup option but it's not optimal for streaming.

Today we discovered that getting a 4-6 room house that is nice and somewhere with cable is actually a lot more economical when you can split it with 1-3 other people.

Combining this with my need to move into streaming and Amy's dream of one day running a B&B and we started to come up with an idea...

THE IDEA
The general idea is to have a house with split rent and multiple cable connections for uber internet. Food/utilities/net/housework would all be included and managed by the lovely Amy, who gets to live out her B&B dreams full time.

This idea is quite exciting because:

- It is a more economic way for myself and a number of other people to either move into or continue their full time work in gaming.

- Provides time and an environment to focus on our business, similar to what you'd see in an SC2 team house.

- Having a bunch of motivated people working in the same industry makes for a lot of collab opportunities and allows people to inspire each other.

- There's very little capital expenditure and risk, it'll be about on par with moving into a house with friends while in university.

OCCUPANTS PROFILE
Looking for people that are already fulltime or who are close to going fulltime with circumstances preventing them. If you can pull about $1000 to $1500 a month from YouTube/Streaming/Coaching/etc then you should be able to afford it and some basic entertainment. We're aiming for the $250-300 a week mark per person (includes meals, rent & utilities). It'll scale cheaper with more people as well.

You could also be someone who's just looking for an extended gaming holiday and have a bit of money saved up to live off. If 6 months of hardcore gaming with everything else taken care of sounds good then this might be right up your alley

If you are a big drinker or spender then you may have to consider what you can sacrifice to go fulltime I'm managing to live personally off of $1000 a month income from YouTube, it's tough but possible.

LOCATION
Leaning heavily towards the Central Coast with Sydney or Melbourne areas as backups. Which one of those depends on appropriate houses with cable and people who want to live in them


WHAT NOW?
So, current goal is to talk to as many Aussies as possible who are currently full time gaming or who can foreseeably go fulltime if they move into an environment where they can work efficiently (have savings to cover them for 6 months). Through talk we can discover what it is people are looking for out of something like this and if there are enough people in this country to set this up.

That last part will be the biggest challenge as the Aussie scene is pretty infant.

So, if this sounds like a dream come true to you then either reply here or shoot me an email at gaminghouse@ziggyd.tv

ZiggyD