Roomster

I tried to access the Roomster site to see listings that were shown on sublet.com and I am immediately asked to pay for mailbox access before I can do anything on the site with no explanation why this is needed?

Potential tenants are not required to complete their profiles, and most profiles seem more suited for a dating site - not for finding a quality rental or roommate. As a landlord, most contacts from roomster are a waste of my time.

Roomster is a glitchy, overpriced app. It sometimes fails to save my changes, it posted my listing before I was ready, and is extremely tricky to cancel. It's obvious that the site is interested in making profit regardless of the quality of product.

I don't like the automatic renewal for thirty days after signup. I think that should be up to the discretion of the subscriber without it being done automatically, regardless of the ability to option out before the next billing date. That's my opinion.

Looking for an apartment to move in July wasnt easy. Most places had leases for June and August and the July pot was slim pickens. But I sure as hell made the most of it, and nearly met with every available place I could. And of course like any story, theres a good ending. Met my now roommate, Jacob, and weve been kickin it every day. Hes been showing me around Brooklyn and told me all the hotspots around the city.

To find a beautiful living room I signed up in Roomster. I found a very nice room which charges only $470.00 per month that is reasonable to me. I spent only $14.95 for 14 days subscription in roomster but, I am not concern about that because, I got a very nice room as I need.

I have to pay to see messages and I dont like that. The purpose of this is to find a suitable listing and its hindered by having to pay to contact them. Only doing this because Im desperate in finding a place.

The site is all over the place. I start to enter stuff and it is deleted or switches to previous page. Renters tell me that they had a REALLY difficult time switching their age etc. The slide bar is very difficult to control. Can rarely get the $ amount on the the exact amount I want.

I paid $ 14 as evaluation trying to find a roommate.

It never work, no one would ever return your messages. I learnt that later on craigslist where I met one of those roomate.com recipients. They told me they have to pay for reading the messages.

It is just a crap to me or everyone else if we pay $14 or less for a evaluation.
However, it is more like a scam to me that they charge me for $29 for the following months. I usually checked my credit card statement, but not the PAYPAL one, which is just an item on my credit card statement. So I didn't know I have been charged $90 because I didn't cancel the subscription.

The customer service already has an official canned message telling you how they can legally steal your money. And I wouldn't be surprised if I found this review here.

I never write reviews, but I found that not so many people I spoke to knew about this website and it has helped me so much I felt like it was my duty to write about it. I recently had to rent out two rooms in my apartment and it was so easy to find good people here. I strongly recommend that people try looking on here! I feel like everyone I talk to is so genuine and these are people you would want to have in your home. They are also looking for the same thing so it just worked out perfectly. Also there is loads of info on here and its so easy to get customer service when you need it. Try it out!

After paying for a few months (canceling my subscription after every payment fortunately) my account was suddenly deleted. No email saying I did something wrong (I had only sent inquiries out to people to see if they had interest in my room or answered inquiries), and no way to contact them as everything is automated AND requires having an account to access (thanks for deleting mine). Now I am out the rest of my subscription period and people I hope were real leads, but given the amount of bogus inquiries I cannot be sure, I cannot follow up to set up house tours. Please avoid and if you do use the site for some reason be SURE to cancel your subscription after paying because I have seen a lot of other people with similar issues. Definitely would recommend to avoid once again.

Everything is great but sometimes I receive links to view information on Roomster and I am never directed to their information. Or someone has a post on another site, directs me to roomster for more info but then I can't find them on roomster.

Roomster was a great alternative to craigslist for me. I had been trying to find a great affordable room to rent but it was a very strenuous task. Roomster easily sorted listings based on my budget and helped me find the right room fast.

My initial signup was a little bumpy, but online support quickly fixed that. Trouble is that as soon as I was registered I was hit by a number of offers that turned out to be scammers. Still haven't found a room in my price range, but overall it's a fairly decent site that's easy to navigate.

I haven't used Roomster much simply because I haven't found much that suits my needs there. I did however pay for 3 day subscription in order to message some potential roommates. I have never received responses. But the reason I am giving only one star is because I was charged $30 as auto-renew for a whole month of service, after my 3 day subscription was over. They say that apparently it was written somewhere that they would charge you until you cancel subscription. I am pretty sure it wasn't written anywhere obvious! I wouldn't have signed up for 3 days only if I wanted a monthly service! I wrote to them and they said they will issue pro-rated refund after I cancel subscription. Fine, but I still think what they did in the first place is bad business.