The housemate is definitely leaving and you are going to have an empty room in your house. You had a sense that this was going to happen. Your housemate is moving on to a new part of life. She/he is moving in with his boyfriend or girlfriend, has taken a job in a different city, [...]
Posts under ‘Finding Good Housemates’
Writing the ad
The ad you write needs to have six types of information:
Location
Features of the room and house
Something about who you are
What you are looking for
The financial informaton
Contact information
The location is in the subject line or headline of a paper ad. The headline should also describe the basics. It is a house, apartment, and how many people [...]
Programs for Seniors
Here’s an article in the NY Times about sharing housing.
This is about a program run by the NY Foundation for Senior Citizens in New York City that help seniors connect with one another. What a great idea!
Housemate Ad – What to Write
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 [...]
Know Yourself!
To thine own self be true
The absolute most important part of finding housemates that you want to keep is being really, really honest with yourself and others about who you are and what you can and want to live with.
This is NOT the time to wish you were different. Do not believe you can make [...]
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 based [...]
Finding Housing: The Pitfalls of Craigslist
For now, Craigslist is the most popular way 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 house. With [...]