Scott A.

I came on site jabber to do the review for roomster.com - because it absolutely sucked with 1 fake lead and tries to auto-renew your membership, while roommates.com actually gave me real leads and got me a room.

So after reviewing roomster.com with 1/5, I decided to take a look here, and surprise, 1/5 also!

From my view roommates.com worked, so it deserves at least a 3/5.
Since the sites needs to make money, it's totally understandable to charge people for its service. Now, if only it allowed FREE members to read messages sent by PAID members, I'd give it a 5/5. I'd imagine it will drastically improve chances of a good match, and not as many messages sent with no reply.

In addition to auto-renewing your subscription, ONE IRRELEVANT LEAD always comes in when you're not subscribed (and you don't know it then because you can't read it before subscribing) - and ZERO after you subscribe.

Despite the site seemingly containing pages of rooms/candidates, none of my messages were replied - ZERO!

In the same time I registered for 3 days on roommates.com, and have gotten 5+ real leads within 2 days, already visited them all and am ready to move in! (Be sure to also read the 1-2 star reviews for roommates.com, I feel perhaps I'm just awfully lucky after visiting that section.)

I guess the biggest complaint I have is that neither site allowed unpaid members to read any messages - even ones sent by paid members. This could be the reason why there are pages of people and yet none seem to bother responding.