Roomies was a fantastic service to use… Roomies was a fantastic service to use when I was looking for a room in a sharehouse. It was free to use, I entered my preferences (rent price, location, etc.) and a few details about myself. Within a couple days I had a message from an individual looking to fill a room in her place, turned out we were in the same uni program, and have a lot in common (because she was also choosing me based on a detailed profile). Roomies was the best platform to be able to have these initial interactions! I love it.

Great website, users need more incentive to respond. The website itself is very well designed. Everything makes sense where it's supposed to be, having the options to purchase background checks and verifying IDs to help bring comfort to those renting out rooms is also fantastic. Something they could do better Is when searching for a room it would be nice to have an option to search as A city and then apply a radius around. In some areas you have to look up each small town to find something as opposed to searching one and seeing everything nearby. Another thing that's a gripe but it's nothing with the website itself, it's the users. They don't seem to have much motivation to respond. I could have sent 50 plus messages and I would be lucky to get five back but that's how the game goes.

I posted on Roomies for a month plus While I felt safe on roomies, I noticed many ads with no photos at all. I was on Roomies for almost a month where there are few options for older people. What I means is I looked every day and 95% of the ads specified younger ages. I know this isn't the fault of the roomies.com site however I think better marketing techniques would draw older people. I didn't know about Roomies until I found it through a Google search. Yesterday (April 22) I sent an inquiry to a renter and never got a response, my timeline is very time sensitive, renters should be required to.respond to all legitimate inquiries. Fortunately I had ads on other sites and found my rental elsewhere.

Found an amazing roommate after having… Found an amazing roommate after having my listing up for just a single day. Very positive experience!

Roomies is a good reliable source Roomies is a good reliable source. However I wish more people would use it instead of Facebook. However I have to use Facebook much more because Roomies doesn't get a lot of traffic.