A good roommate ad has five types of information. It should list the location and the rent. It should also include a description of the room for rent and the larger house, something about yourself as a housemate, and a description of what you are looking for in a housemate.
The location and the rent should [...]
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Writing your roommate wanted ad
Roommate.com: The Basics
Roommates.com
This website offers free registration to post either “room offered†or “room wanted.†With pages and pages of testimonials, the company clearly seeks to establish itself as credible and helpful. J. Bennet reviewing the service at Reviewstream, comments “Perhaps the best feature of roommates.com is that the service personally matches you with other site users [...]
Using Craigslist to find good housemates
There’s no question that Craigslist has become the primary route to finding a place to live. It’s free to posters (except in NYC) and it is easy to search if you know where you want to live. I used Craigslist for years when I was looking for people to rent the single room in my [...]