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 on your criteria. Often looking through Craigslist is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.” That’s a fair comment.
The registration for roommates.com is easy and free. It asks for the basics such as your sex, age, occupation, smoking habits and what you are looking for. It also asks for preferences and interests that will be helpful to you in finding a match. Clearly Roomates.com has experience in this area. The form asks whether you are willing to:Â share a bedroom, share a bathroom, and/or to live with children. One question asks about cleanliness level. Another question is whether you will have children present. A final question asks you to choose one of 50 icons that describe your personality. You can include a picture of yourself if you want.
At that point you have access to all the profiles of people on the site, but only limited access. To communicate through the email servers, and to see complete profiles, Roommates offers three plans. A three-day trail costs $5.99, thirty days is $19.99 and 60 days is $29.99.
Once you have registered and logged into the system, you have access to the entire profile of others.
The log in process directs you to an email system within the roommates.com domain. You can communicate with potential housemates without revealing your personal email address or telephone number. This feature is an excellent first step in finding a good housemate.
