Roommates.com

This is one of the worst websites I ever visited.
If you want to search for a roommates say in Boston, MA this website does not have this city added in their listing rather I would have to search by North Quincy, MA to search for roommates in Boston. Not even Quincy city is available in their search.

This is not over, once you submit search for North Quincy, MA it will display so many search results with historical listing of people who found their room mates but it is very difficult to find open listing which you are interested.

The search results does not is separate listing of who want place and who had place to rent everything is mixed up. I had to spend lot of time to figure it out if there is a listing posted some one looking for tenant.:-(, I gave 1 star as I there was no option to give less than that.

I went ahead and paid for a 3 day subscription of $5.99 so i can bypass the red tape and communicate fast to find a place to live. I sent out emails through roomates.com site and keep checking for a response. The other parties have not responded because they have not read my emails. Now looking in the reviews i can see why i did not get a response back from them. I am starting a new job and i have to live closer to work. I have no time to waste and yet no positive things to say about this site. I am sure i will get a response attached to my review that they will do damage control of explaining why this site did not work for me. Anyone that is serious to find a place to live in a very short time span please do not go looking on this site. Try somewhere else. My subscription expires today and still no responses back to me from my emails.

Roommates.com provided a great selection of potential roommates and an easy way to communicate with them. The matches were done in good taste and it helped to clear out those less compatible. The price for the membership is reasonable and worth it if you are serious about living with a responsible person. As I know that everyones preference is different, this was a great investment for me. Thanks Roommate.com. You were here for me when I needed you the most.

Most grateful,
GeneBean 2016

I get lots of responses to my advertisement, I respond immediately and never hear back from the interested party ever again. All i see is that roomates says the response violated their terms and they delete the response. So you never get a real response. This smells really fishy

I understand that a free service will not contain as many features and benefits as a paid service. But the Basic/free service on roommates.com is worth exactly what you're paying for it. People who email under the Basic service don't match your preferences, so what's the point? And you can't actually see the emails anyway, so what's the point?

This is an actual quote from a customer service rep in the Q&A on SiteJabber:
"You do not have to upgrade to receive responses from other other members, but you do have to upgrade to read their responses."

Roommates.com is a worthless site. I went to it because I remember hearing about it a few years ago on TV. I didn't want to try craig's list because I though it was sketchy. I feel like an idiot for using this site. The price of enrollment is way to high and there are very few people on it. This is throwing your money away. They are also masters of the upsale, so prepared to be annoyed. I spent two month on the site and got only two responses, one being a nudist, the other one flaking. I gave up and tried craig's list and got 8 responses within hours. I found my roommate right away. I feel so strongly about it that I even wanted to make sure to write this so other people don't make that mistake.

Don't go there. There are a bunch of scammers. They use deception to real you in. Its not worth your money. Stay away from the add below if you go to rent. Avoid the following which goes by Annie in Tacoma, WA. It's not a legitamate listing and they just collect information about you. Then they give a questionaire before a meeting and never show up to meet with you. Avoid Annie at all costs in Tacoma, WA. She will advise you to speak with Sonja Hastings. Just look up Sonja Hastings on FB. Also the address below is 3110 N. 24th Street. They claim its a 7 bedroomroom house, but when you Google it, it only shows 3-6 bedrooms.

I used to pay $5.00 every email. It got me know where. It doesn't matter, male, female, Everybody I spoke to is hyper and drunk! Can't make up their mind if they want a roommate or a lover! One person told me, I can't bring meat in the house, but he has a friend accross the road whom would rent to me. So, I called. I was able to bring meat in the house, but not cook it. I thought then and there, I will not pay $5.00 to put myself through this again. So then, I started putting my number in to still get emails back! If I gave you the number, it takes nothing to write it down and call. Especially after giving the number to do so. A scam? I will never know and don't want to deal with this. I need a roommate not a head game! I don't understand adults playing this game. If you are not serious, what's the point? Go on twitter to play games!

My complaint about this site is similar to Stef P.'s. When I pay money, I expect to receive ALL the information I need to decide who to contact and who not to contact. Roommates.com does not let paid members know the identity of other paid members. What that means is that they expect me to email many people who will not be able to read my emails without paying to unlock their inbox.

The company's goal is to have you pay them in order to give you the ability to waste your time trying to get other people to pay them with very little potential benefit to you.

I have used roommates.com in the past for a room I had available for rent and paid for the VIP membership. I was able to search in the age group that I was looking for and within a month of chatting with a few people was able to find my roommate. I recently went back to roommates.com now a few years later to find a new roommate and found that the site had changed a great deal. I paid the price for a month of VIP with no luck. Much of what I saw was people who wanted to hook up. Is this a dating site? I just wanted to rent my room. I was greatly disappointed this time around.