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New York
1 review
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Loaded my pics. Wrote some descriptive language and my place was rented in 36 hours. Quality, in an era of mediocrity, shine through all the time.

Date of experience: March 24, 2025
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Easy to publish
April 14, 2025

Roomie is a great website to publish a free room to look for tenants. I would recommend it for sure.

Date of experience: April 1, 2025
Virginia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Stick with Craigslist
October 11, 2024

The site is old & outdated.
People hardly respond, nor do many remove their listing once they no longer need a service.
Stick with a paid service or CL.

Date of experience: October 11, 2024
Oregon
1 review
2 helpful votes
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You never know how accurate or honest someone may be. Most recently met with a potential roommate in person, and was told the room was not available. They could have told me this in an email, instead of using up half my day with travel time. Also recently, I found what looked like a good roommate match, but they never replied, so why did they even list the room for? Thanks for letting me review.

Date of experience: July 12, 2024
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Don't waste your time
September 19, 2024

Roomies got a lot of fake and scammers on their platform. They don't tell the truth at all. It's better to get what you want from either friend and family or realtor. Don't waste your time here

Date of experience: September 19, 2024
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This site is a joke not one person on the site who offering an available room ever responds to messages they either just ignore your messages or Block the post from being seen again.Im seriously in need a place soon and if you in the same position as me don't bother with this site you'll just be missing out on an opportunity somewhere else.

Date of experience: February 24, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It was good we found connection with each other. Thanks for providing this awesome platform. It would be nice if Roomies have features to help confirming or proofing a tenant is a quality tenant and may vice versa too.

Date of experience: April 2, 2024
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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While this site does make finding a roommate or room to rent super easy, it's also a super easy way to be scammed. I decided to rent from an individual on this app and I thought everything was fine. Come to find out a few months later that the person on this site was subletting and the owner of the home had no idea. So then I was kicked out, never got my deposit back and they never reimbursed for the remaining money from my unused month. That person is still up on this website too. On top of all that the roommates were absolutely dirty and never cleaned up after themselves. Half the time there were moldy dishes in the sink, the bathroom was disgusting and the house was nasty. I was the only one who ever cleaned up. It's too much of a gamble finding people on this website.

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Date of experience: June 4, 2024
California
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Within a 120-minute window of submitting my first room request, I obtained both a response and phone call from my host. Our connection was instantaneous. I paid a visit to her, she gave me a tour, and I left a deposit. In two weeks, I will move in. Our compatibility was unmatched.

Date of experience: April 28, 2024
Oregon
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Continual breakins and trespassing onto property by houseless and criminals. Landlord ignores safety issues and deletes relevant clips of trespassing on his security cams to avoid liability. Cops called. Dangerous conditions in house made me end up in ER. Got termination notice after I was injured on the property due to unsafe living conditions. Avoid this place, you will get hurt or killed.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Roomies was very helpful!
November 30, 2023

Roomies was very helpful to me. I was renting my room and found a housemate not on Roomies but I did have a number of possibilities here. I really appreciate the fact that I get a background check credit check and identity verification here so that people would know that I was trustworthy. These checks were all reasonably priced and I could ask my potential housemate to get the checks done here. Also, I received a number of possibilities most days and could contact them and most people did actually contact me back unlike on other sites. My room was at the high end of, the rental prices here, but still, it was great, and I think that the listings were very accurate. Thank you very much. I will use it again when I need to.

Date of experience: November 29, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Owner Francisca wants someone to control...has cameras everywhere. Ordered me around doing chores that her or her son could do but she is sooo lazy, very loud and very deceptive. A wily personality. Police have been here twice already and I have only been here 2 weeks...said she doesn't get along well with women but I am a man and trust me, she's off her rocker. I am studying yoga, that's my demeanor! Good luck to the next victim. Room was great though with adjacent bathroom. Can't say anything bad about accommodations. If you don't do all her housework for her...you're toast. She's a real hypocrite...I don't judge because I have been unstable at one point...and karma is a $#*!! Hope this helps. Namaskaram!

Date of experience: October 20, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Roomies saves the year again
January 6, 2023

Being without a stable residence can be daunting so it's good to know that roomies is Go and not just show. I've been familiar with them for a year & they will now be partially to credit for my last two lovely living situations.

Date of experience: January 22, 2022
Nebraska
0 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Other roommate websites claim to be free but you cant message other users without paying so its effectively useless. This website is great, I got a lot of traffic for my ad and found a roommate in a few weeks after talking to about 15 people. I had a much better experience here than with roommates.com.

Date of experience: June 27, 2022
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I was impressed by the amount of work that must have gone into creating this site. It is simple to use
And most responsive. Each time anyone expressed an interest in the rental I was immediately contacted by email. Helpful forms and suggestions were created as guidelines to help both parties negotiate through clear communication about the expectation that arise during the rental process.

Date of experience: August 23, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Overall app is good
August 31, 2023

Overall the app is really user friendly, good to use, the matches sometimes were hit or miss. Truly though I would recommend this app for anyone that's seeking a room to rent you you can see if they're verified not verified so it gives you some sense of security

Date of experience: August 31, 2023
Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Screwed over by roomies
September 25, 2022

I'm a disabled vet who rented an extra room from my house to help with high prices. And for no reason my account was frozen and I was blocked out.
When I tried emailing them to see why o have been totally ignored.

Date of experience: September 25, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Be careful
April 15, 2022

My experience has been a nightmare with Carol on 181 garden path. Please be aware. She is tring to charge all kinds of fees.
Like the dry cleaning of her cheap bedding. A cutting board that I used to cut on... really? 85.00
For a tiny scratch. Would have been nice to know in advance it was for decoration only... I could go on and on. Please be aware...

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Don't not rent here!
February 26, 2023

This home is located in Conyers. The lady in charge has issues and a lot of rules. You can't have guest but once a week. They're cameras all over the place except in your room and bathroom. She watches and monitors your every move 24/7. Parking is terrible because you basically park on the side of a hill and there in no sufficient space if you have a big truck. You can't really use the washer and dryer if you have large loads and have limited space in the fridge. You can't use her oven or stove.

Date of experience: February 26, 2023
Mississippi
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Yikes
July 18, 2021

Over the weekend, I messaged a woman with a strange name, let's just call her "dolphin," looking for a roommate, and after 2.5 days, I had still heard nothing back, despite seeing she was online. I messaged her again to let her know she should've responded in that time. Then she called me a $#*!, which was weird because she was in her 30s, so like, act your age. So, in short, I don't like the website. The only people who have messaged me requesting to live with me are creepy old men & the aforementioned $#*!, dolphin.

Date of experience: July 18, 2021

Overview

Roomies has a rating of 3.7 stars from 114 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Roomies most frequently mention background check and potential roommates. Roomies ranks 1st among Roommate sites.

service
39
value
35
shipping
14
returns
15
quality
30
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