Roommates.com

I have had success in finding a roommate quickly not once but twice! I highly recommend this site.
I feel it is secure & has streamlined profiles for more exact matches.

who tf do they think they are charging any money. there are several other free sites with way higher chance of getting a response. Stay away from this site

They advertise linking you up with people who either have a room or need a room, but when you message, or get a message, you are REQUIRED to purchase a membership before you can read that message.

Complete scam.

I found a great roommate after just a few days of posting on Roommates.Com. They made it easy to get my information out there. Sure will use this site again if I need to.

I signed up for this service but I have been unable to connect with one single potential roommate in over 2 months. I am not sure if people can not see my post or my emails unless they pay

Unlike others who have complained about the $20 membership fee I wish this site would get rid of the "freebies". If everyone had to pay then maybe the only people who would take the time to fill out a profile would be serious about finding a roommate. As it stands, the site is filled with absolute crap, fake people, people who put a profile up just for kicks and forget to take it down, etc. And the simple fact that you cannot contact a potential roommate unless you are a paid subscriber negates the effectiveness of the site. At least 1 person has to have paid. I kinda cheated and listed an Outlook email account I created just for finding a roommate. But again, unless someone has paid, you can't even see that. To be fair, several potential roommates (non scam) did contact me but it didn't work out. But that's over a period of about 6 months. It seems to me the site is not a true roommate site. As in 2 people share a place completely 50/50. It's mainly lots and lots of people who have trouble making their mortgage and just want to rent a room.

Found three choices for a room right away- went to each place- found just what I need! The site is careful with personal data so I could easily decide who to go see.

I was looking to rent a room in my place so I registered with roomates.com
Come to find out that I cant read messages if I don't have a membership. So I buy the two months membership only to wait weeks with no response. I have reached to 200 people and I got only two responses that they weren't interested. I believe most of the people don't reply because they don't have a membership. So I emailed them and asked to connect me to VIP members to the one that can communicate/answer my messages. They said they couldn't do that... so here I am wasting hours reaching out to people that don't have a paid membership. It's a waste of time.

Awful! The only messages I received were from scammers and whacky people who didn't even come close to fitting my criteria. I tried Craigslist and found a great roommate in a week.

Joined as a VIP out of desperation, only to receive responses from idiots who felt the need to cuss me out and call me "ugly as whore" completely unprovoked. I reported them and zero action was taken. "Matches" and "search results" always include numerous people NOT EVEN LOOKING IN THE AREA OF MY LISTING! Also with budget well below the prices in my area with no way of filtering them out of results! This site is a SCAM!

I am very disappointed with this "service". I had very few matches because I have a nine year old daughter, which is to be expected. It takes a very open-minded non-parent to welcome a kid into their home. However, I did have a handful of matches. Of those 5-6 matches, 3 were VERY CLEARLY SCAMS. They had poor writing skills or English was their second language although they all claimed to be from the "States" and have a recently deceased father. They all sent a list demanding that documentation be signed saying that we're reserving to be their roommate sight unseen and that we had to send security deposit and first month at the same time. They were all unavailable until several months in the future, and oddly none had friends in the area to show the place although they all "lived there". Highly unlikely! One stopped replying immediately and deleted their posting once I started asking questions. Another challenged me and asked me what was wrong with me, why would I think that it was a potential scam (10 messages in) when they still refused to show me the place, told me I could drive by, and were still asking for money. Horrible experience!

If I could give it a zero I could. Who asks people to pay a 'membership fee' so you could find a room to live in which is BY THE WAY - A BASIC HUMAN NECESSITY. Lmao tf. We are already going to end paying for monthly rent for the room. You are probably going to say 'oh include your contact number when you message them for free' so the person on the other end who can read messages cos they have a membership can read it and contact you outside the website. Haha you know what? Nah. We don't even pay a 'membership fee' online to do online grocery shopping, plus other hundreds of websites helping people find homes/rooms. This website is unecessarily greedy af. Plus your users are not legit/properly verified.

I had inquiries within a couple of days. These are descent, responsible people with work who are serious about finding a good roommate. I would recommend it to my closets friends.

I have an ad for a room and only paid roomers respond via email. If you want to respond to a possibly roomer, you have to pay to read the responses.

UPDATE 9-2-2015 - Any mail u get - u can't read unless you are a paying person. Any mail you send will get to the other person, but they cannot read it if they are not a paying person. Unless your letter to the person includes all your contact, and they pay the fee, no one can read what you wrote to them. They might pay to read, then they respond back to you, but if you aren't paying the fee, you can't read what they wrote (a waste of their money!). Basically, if you are serious about renting, pay the fee and get the hits. They can't read your description now unless they are a paying member. So, putting contact info in the description is now useless unless they pay the fee. The site does do well, though.

I had a newspaper advertisement for a roommate, paid $66 and got all the WRONG people calling as I was not allowed to say, "PROFESSIONAL WOMEN ONLY". I discovered roommates.com and I, IMMEDIATELY, was on a trial period and sent possible roommates. I sent all of the, potential, roommates a message saying Hello and 3 responded, but 1 returned my call. It just so happened that she is the perfect roommate. Thank you roommate.com. You all ROCK!

Chloe Cruickshank and Emily Fleur Butler are completely untrustworthy. I was their roommate/landlord for three years, was understanding when they were frequently late on rent and didn't pay bills for months, and when they first moved in allowed them to pay less than a month for their deposit. At the end of their tenancy they stopped paying rent and bills entirely a month before they were scheduled to move out. They said their deposit would cover the rent. I was understanding again, because I trusted them, and they promised they would pay the outstanding bills.

Then, they stayed longer than their scheduled move out date, thereby owing the remaining rent missing from their deposit as well as an extra week's rent. Again, they promised repeatedly to pay the difference before they moved out.

Lo and behold, move out date arrives and they leave while I'm out, without paying me. They have been ghosting me ever since, in spite of texts, emails and calls begging them to pay me the nearly £1000 they owe me.

Not to mention, they left their room completely disgusting, the walls were covered with mold, the floor was littered with dirt, dust, trash, dirty socks and press-on nails. I honestly don't know how they were comfortable living like that, it was truly gross.

I'm a student without a lot of money myself, and have been left high and dry by two women whom I trusted. Don't make my mistake! They will lie if they want to get out of paying, and they are just plain gross.

Please, avoid Emily Fleur Butler and Chloe Cruickshank.

4* for not making everyone pay and the limited number of people I can communicate with inside the app. I used roommates.com to find a roommate to move into my place in 2005 and again after I moved in 2007 (14 years, then he moved out and got married). I'm looking again and pickings are a little slim since I am looking for only a mature/no drama male. I am a woman and prefer not to tell someone my name and where I live until my fiance and I have had a chance to meet and chat with them, so Facebook is not an option. So, I'm resigned to paying $15 a month and staying on top of the new listings so I can contact potential renters before they get jaded by the scammers. It isn't perfect, but I don't blame the site for that and they do have a report button and you can block people from messaging you. If they can't read my message and aren't willing to pay $15 to find a place to live, they probably aren't going to pay $45 for a background/credit check or pay their rent either so I won't contact them off-site. As far as paying, do you work for free? I'd love to find a roommate site that does a background/credit check as part of the sign-up process, would get rid of the scammers and some of the non-paying and violent/dishonest roommates and well worth the price.

Found a great housemate. Relocating across country is one of the hardest things I've done. She is a treasure. Honestly don't know what I would do without her. Thank you, Roommates. Com!

So Ridiculous, so just like everyone else, I Only Signed Up for a 3 DAY SUBSCRIPTION. Blew up my mailbox with junk, didn't find the site useful at all. Nobody signs up here, maybe like a few listings a day in my area and I live in East La. Found my own place elsewhere, yesterday, so mind you I haven't even used it in a couple days. Today I check my bank account, and see that they charged me a 29.20$ Charge! That I NEVER AGREED TO. Literally, there was no fine print. NOTHING. THEY AUTOMATICALLY CHARGE YOU WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT. Called Chase right away and they shut down my debit card, because CANNOT TRUST THEM. Plus they don't even have a phone number to contact them on site, all they have is a phony $#*! email. Like WTF is that going to do? SAVE YOURSELF. DO NOT USE

NOTHING but scams on Clist. Then I remembered about Roommates.com, which I'd used five years ago. Found a perfect match the day after I signed up. So worth the $20!

Ended up sharing a home with a CRAZY LADY FROM TIERRASANTA IN SAN DIEGO, CA who accused me of stealing something ridiculous which i did not. This lady needs to be reported or YELPED on. I want to WARN OTHERS about her. Found her on "ROOMMATES.COM" Please all ROOMMATES.COM PEOPLE -- PLEASE YELP ABOUT YOUR BAD EXPERIENCES SO YOU CAN PROTECT OTHERS FROM BEING EXPLOITED. THANK YOU

I thought that I would get the phone numbers and emails to potential renter. So I could contact them and see if their room for rent was still available. After paying I noticed the only added info i was getting from potential renters was the cross streets. No phone numbers. No address. No e-mails address. The only way to "contact" renters is through roomates, com website. And there is guarantee that the site is logit or that the renters on there aren't completely fake. I get more for free from craigslist. I regret wasting my time and money on this site.

I needed a place, I used Roommates.com paid membership about 8-9 years ago and I found a great roommate. Now I had a place to rent and I posted an ad on roommates.com. I mostly got emails that had been "flagged by their fraud department". They don't show you the content of those emails, just tell you the message was removed. Emails I sent to prospective roommates never got answered. (Now I know why, but more on that later!). I decided to upgrade my membership. I did get a couple of messages, but not enough to justify the paid membership; and I still was getting "flagged" messages often. I also sent several emails to possible "matches" but all those emails went unanswered. Once my paid membership ended I decided not to renew, but kept the free ad running just in case. I did get a few "flagged" emails and a couple of what appears to be legit emails, but it turns out "I can't read them unless I pay for membership". What a bunch of BS! Now I know the reason why all those e-mails I sent to prospective roommates were never answered, most of them didn't have the paid membership. I get that some of the "premium" features should only available to those who pay, but the ability to read/respond to emails should not be one of them. It seems now this site is just a scam with made up profiles to make it look bigger than it is. It used to be a good service, but that's no longer the case. 8-9 years later you think the web site would have been upgraded, but it looks just as it did then.