Sublet.com

The last few weeks have been spent looking at listings as a prospective tenant. Now that I'm ready, I signed up just now for a free profile thinking that I could send messages to landlords, but every attempt was blocked by a pop-up telling me I have to pay for a membership to do this.

I understand requiring landlords to pay to advertise their properties... but tenants? That's crazy. All my time searching on here has been wasted.

This company is absolutely not living up to their claims. I literally went through every listing they had in Bergen County and IF someone did answer me I was rudely hung up on and not one single email was returned. I ended up having to dispute the charge. It sucks because I really need a month to month lease and they had me hoping I could find that. Just a huge disappointment. I recommend not wasting time on this company. I venture to say it's a scam.

I had an account for about two weeks. During this time I reached out to several listings. Some of the listing were email only and others had phone numbers. As I began to contact the phone numbers I was shocked to find they lead to a leasing agency or apartment leasing office, who had no idea of what I was talking about. Finally I reached out to the support team for assistance. I emailed them and called. Neither got a response. After spending $19.99, no responses by the listing property owners or support my overall thoughts are as follows. This site is trash!

I paid the $17.95 fee for three months to find a sublet in Tokyo. On a search for something $1000/month or less all I got were two landlords, who had the same ads listed for the last six months: Lavender and Beatrice T. I actually got a reply from the latter person so I sent her a response with some questions - no further response. Lavender never did respond. I am going to dispute the fee or get my money back thru my credit card bank.

I really looking seriously for an affordable accommodation. Once I found something interesting and tried to send a message for some question to the landlord the site ask me to buy subscription. Otherwise I cannot keep in touch with the landlord. In most cases the money is wasted for nothing because of there is no warranty someone will replay or all the accommodation are seriously posted. It feels really like a scam for me.

My assumption is that I list my unit for, the past 3 months, never get one client.
And you have a lot of people looking for apartments? And top of that they are.
Put up more than what landlords, are asking for! Something is wrong with that.

Picture, I would hear a next owner experience!

Almost every link you click on redirects you to a different website. These new websites ask for another fee (on top of the one you already paid Sublet) before you can contact the landlord. This site is a con, preying on the over heated Amsterdam rental market.

I tried using this platform to sublet my room, but it's not worth the money they ask for. I had to pay $20 just to message a potential subletter. Then they ask for MORE money when you want to post a listing for a room. You can "upgrade" your account to have your listing seen first, but I decided not to waste any more money so I have no idea if my post is even being seen by anyone. Definitely NOT worth spending any money. Like seriously do not waste your money with this platform. There are plenty of free sites to use.

I literally just got off the phone with them and they haven't a clue how much time they waste their users by locking accounts while they take days to verify if your a real estate agent or not! I would have gladly provided this info online as this is required by law to disclose. Yet they lock my account made me wait 3 days to return my call/online email request. They could easily do this vetting online and save everyone the heartache!

Since I've now been verified, I don't have another 2 days to see if I can finally get back into my temporarily suspended account, per the tech support people. Ridiculous! I'm taking my business elsewhere! In the meantime, I've found it much easier to just find the sublet property address on their site and then do a quick online search. You can get contact info for the desired properties and deal with them directly to bypass this mess. Just saying!

Looked for rentals in Canada. Many renters did not bother to reply. Maybe we were not welcome as a family with a small kid. Ok! Later I looked for a short term rent for my husband alone and payed the fee. Some answered me that the property was not available while on Sublet.com it was! One woman refused to give an address!? MUCH later she replied I can contact her! AFTER the requested month had passed! Third person was unable to answer any of my questions clearly but blessed me and wished all the best many times. Are this people in order?! I gave the 3 links to Sublet.com explaining what I found wrong but got no answer. Wasted money, time and hopes. Shame! Here in Europe we are not used to that much scam in one place!

The worst rental experience of my life through this site. Extremely invasive and unethical landlord started engaging in physical harassment. Ended up calling the police and stuck in legal action. It will take months to recover. Sublet has a 'review' button, so I wrote a bad review to warn off other potential victims, however I don't even see where that went on the site. Probably directly to the landlord. This site 'appears' better than craigslist, but craigslist actually has a mechanism to respond and remove predatory landlord postings. BEWARE.

I invested in a 90-day premium membership in order to sublet my unit in June. I should have looked into user reviews first. I have quickly learned that Sublet.com will not deliver what I expected. The site seems to be overrun with clients looking to rent next week. Three parties have contacted me and two of them obviously didn't read the posting since they want to rent in March and my unit isn't available until June. Bottom line: Get a broker if you want to rent your place or find a rental.