Timo Koro lets out a one-room flat to travellers in Helsinki. He says that the flat was empty, he wanted to keep it and decided to rent it out.
Koro gets short-term tenants through Airbnb - an open online community-based service.
Airbnb has grown rapidly, claiming over a million lodgings worldwide. In Finland, the number has doubled in the past year.
Even so, Finland trails well behind other Nordics--while in Finland there are two and a half thousand listings, there are 9000 in Sweden and 17,000 in Denmark.
"I think it has taken a little bit longer for Finland to embrace this like sharing economy and hosting people from all over the world," says Aja Guldhammer, Nordic Country Manager, Airbnb. "I also think, I mean we have a team in Copenhagen we have put some more resources in other Scandinavian market."
The tradition travel lodgings industry sees Airbnb as an interloper and for example in Paris and Berlin its operations are restricted.
In Finland, legislation doesn't recognise this grey area between regular rental and lodging travellers.
"We are in 100 and 90 countries and rules can be different from like countries to cities even from neighbourhood and even within an apartment building," says Guldhammer. "So what is really important to us is that we try to make sure we inform people what they should check."
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy is actively keeping an eye on the service, but for now thinks it's covered well enough by existing laws and there are no plans to issue any special guidelines.
