Moving long distance presents a challenge. How do you find a place to live when you aren’t there to see the place and to interview potential housemates? Some people make the trip for a weekend ahead of time and try to jam it all in and maybe they get lucky. I’m sure some do get [...]
Posts Tagged ‘housing’
Welcome to the Sharing Housing Blog
Sharing housing just makes sense. Especially when money is tight and you are stretching to make ends meet. This blog is intended to help you find and keep good housemates. This is for all generations. In our society we have all ages of people who live alone supporting one [...]
Writing your roommate wanted ad
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 [...]
The Most Important Thing
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 [...]
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 [...]