Roomster

The reason why I gave a one star is because this company charges fees to even look at your mail, but don't regulate all the scammers. Ppl tried to scam me multiple times on here. Even when I thought a person was legit because they sent a copy of their license and information, wanted $1400 and claimed to be a Dr. I called the real Dr's office and spoke with him, it was a scam and the lady stole his ID and been using it to scam ppl. I don't recommend this company.

I had been looking for a place to stay for a while but had mainly been using craigslist and didn’t have any luck because I found it so difficult to sift through all the sketchy ads. I was about to give up hope when my friend posted about roomster on facebook! I had no idea about this site and have to say that it really made everything 100 times easier. I now have a great apartment close to Washington Square Park exactly where I wanted to be! Really recommend this site!

I just got divorced and my boy had mentioned this service as he had used it before. Since going through a lot in the past few months I did not have a lot of energy to look for a place. I initially was supposed to stay with a buddy but when that did not work out my boy put up an ad for me on this website and I started getting replies. Experience was fast and effortless.

I was having some problems because my roommate decided to move to Boston because of a job and he needed to move out pretty swiftly and left me kind of in trouble. I had heard a co-worker talk about roomster and put an AD up. Straight away I got responses and met with a few people in the next few days. One of them really liked the apartment and has signed a lease and is moving in next week! So happy that everything worked out so well!

Moved into a new place this past weekend, and little did I know my new roommate is a chef and an AMAZING one at that! But back to the review, I really want to thank the people at Roomster.com for helping me out with all my questions, and by doing so helping me utilize the website to its maximum. There are a lot of nifty tools on here and I found the perfect place for me in virtually no time. A++

Consumers beware! Roomster has taken to clogging the room and apartment listings in Craigslist with dozens and dozens of fake ads. It's so frustrating! When you shoot a text to the person posting the ad, you get a reply that includes a link to one of Roomster's many bogus mirror sites. Then you're urged by the party you contacted to sign up in order to look up more details about the room. Signing up, though, is just a way to lure you into paying their ridiculous subscription fees-- otherwise you have no way of accessing messages from individuals you've contacted through the site. If you get one of Roomster's links, just ignore it. This is a total scam and rip-off. And an outrageous abuse of Craigslist, which is meant to be an open, free community forum. Not a place to siphon people off to some scam website.

Was lured from Craigslist with deceptive advertising. They advertise on craigslist asking you to create an account to apply for the Craigslist advertised room. I created an account and paid for a week subscription. I Sent out 13 messages about open rooms on the website and didn't get a single response. I'm not even convinced that the advertised postings on Craigslist were real; they're really just looking to lure you into a paid subscription. I don't mind paying for a legitimate service, but this reeks of deceptive advertising and foul play.

There are a lot of rooms available on Roomster and what’s great is you can speak directly with landlords or potential roommates instead of going through a middleman making things a lot easier. I have found both short-term and long-term rentals on here and others I have spoken to have also had luck. Just makes the whole process simple and effective. 10 out of 10!

I had a fantastic roommate for two years who put up with a lot of $#*! from me. The most memorable thing that happened was when a blue whale died and washed up on a nearby beach, so I got up the following morning at 4 a.m. to take a quick look at it before work. I brought back a chunk of baleen with me and stuck it under my bed. By the time my roommate woke up the room REEKED of dead whale and continued to do so for at least three days even after we put it away in a Tupperware container. It was really gross. She ended up moving out and I had an empty room and bills to pay. A friend of mine suggested I list the room for rent on Roomster after they had used the site with great success. It was easy enough to create the listing and their customer service was extremely helpful in answering any questions I had. After a few weeks I found a really great person to rent the room to.

If you offer this service to help people find housing/roommates, and remain in popular demand because of good results and word-of-mouth, than you can invest in other means besides having to charge a subscription fee for allowing people to use this service to message potential offers. There has been evidence of homeless and disabled people in need of help, and they are still required to pay a fee in order to reach out for housing service, so why charge for something that is already provided as under normal services by other websites and social media networks?

Roomster was really easy to use, it took me seconds to register and once I did I was breezing through listings. I appreciate that they require people to register via their social media pages to verify that they in fact are real people, Ive dealt with tons of scams on Craigslist that emanate from Bots that create fake listings to try and scam people. I also really like how the listings have the continuous scroll function as it lets me continue looking until I find a listing that interests me.

I was recently in the market for a room to rent when a friend recommended Roomster to me. I am usually not prone to utilizing services such as these online because they usually lack security but after speaking at length with my friend who used the site I felt comfortable using it. After I created a profile it was very easy to find a listing that was within my budget and communicating on the site was a breeze. Overall positive experience and I’m happy the site did what it advertised.

I purchased a subscription so I can read message responses and when I clicked on messages I still had no access to read my messages. Instead, it stated for me to purchase a mailbox even though it stated I was to have full access. Don't waste your money. They have no phone number to speak with a live person, that's typical of a company who scams others.

The way you have your site set up is not ideal. First time using it and I didn't know how to input my profile information with the way you have it set up. It has me as 18 years old when in fact I'm 46. I messaged you about it, got a response but tried to follow the instructions he gave me, but it would not let me change it. If you just had it set up were you can type it in or at least go back a screen and change it before completing your profile. It is very frustrating!