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Aluminium, sturdy, a bit of paint on the rungs. Great for gutters, roof edges, and stringing lights before a party.
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Marcus T. Almaden Valley3 min walk
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Somewhere along the way, we stopped borrowing from each other.
Then we stopped talking to each other.
Let's change that.
That's how communities are built.
Welcome, neighbor
Nabr is a private network for the people on your street. Rebuilding neighborhoods, one connection at a time.
A ladder for an afternoon, a mixer for one cake, a tent for one weekend.
See what neighbors are asking for this week and answer one of them.
Post what you need. Asking is the other half of a neighborhood that works.
Why Nabr exists
Not for sale. Not for rent. Just owned by someone three doors down who isn't using it this weekend.
Your ZIP owns roughly 196 ladders. On the busiest day of the year, about 14 are in use. Your street already owns nearly everything you need for a one-off job — it's just sitting in someone else's garage.
The tent you used twice, the folding chairs from the party, the mixer on the top shelf. Lending them out costs you nothing and quietly makes you useful to the people nearby.
The problem, counted
A ladder gets used about six days a year. The other three hundred and fifty-nine, it hangs in a garage four minutes from someone who needs one and doesn't know it's there.
200 households × ~70% own a ladder = 196 ladders 196 ladders × $280 = $54,880 spent used 6 days a year → idle 98% of the time demand across 200 homes → 14 in use on the busiest day
Now do the same math for pressure washers, carpet cleaners, tents, folding tables, wheelbarrows, projectors, canning pots, and the roof rack somebody used once in 2019.
What one block gets back
Nobody has saved this yet. These are projections for one 200-household neighborhood over one year, built from replacement cost and typical use rates — the same arithmetic as above, at street scale. The day we have real numbers, they replace these, whatever they say. A product about trust doesn't get to fake its first number.
Instead of testimonials
Not a five-star rating. A reputation — the kind that means someone says your name when a neighbor asks who to call.
Nobody's asking you to download an app. We're asking you to be the first door on your street that opens — and then to knock on seven more.
How it works
Every member is confirmed as a real neighbor before anything is shared.
List a few things you'd lend and a few things you'd happily help with.
Browse the shelf, or post what you need. Either way, a neighbor replies.
Agree a time, agree the condition, return it, and say thanks in person.
What you get back
Don't buy the thing you'll use once. Nine ladders already exist within a four-minute walk.
Actually know the people living around you — including the ones you've waved at for six years.
Share what already exists instead of manufacturing another one and storing it for a decade.
Become known as someone your street can count on. It's the oldest currency there is.
Example listings — real ones appear when your block joins
What this looks like once your street is on
Aluminium, sturdy, a bit of paint on the rungs. Great for gutters, roof edges, and stringing lights before a party.
Perfect for a one-off baking project. Comes with the whisk, the paddle, and a spare bowl.
Fifteen years hiring in nonprofits. Send it over, then we sit down for an hour and mark it up together.
Example listings — real ones appear when your block joins
And what neighbors ask for
Redoing the front beds on Saturday. Would return it Sunday evening, cleaned out.
Flight at 6am. Happy to cover gas and bring back something good.
FAQ
Founding Neighbors set the tone for the whole block — the first things listed, the first favours returned, the first names learned. Takes 30 seconds. We'll verify your street afterwards.