Finding Roommates

Roommates Come From all Walks of Life

December 5, 2011
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I receive e-mails on a daily basis on various questions, concerns, and thoughts related to renting out a room in your house. One particular comment I received from a newbie “live-in landlord” was: “…..for some reason the majority and most prospective of the interested renters are older than I had expected ( high 50′s to [...]

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Dealing with Discouragement

November 16, 2011
Stained glass window of birds nesting there ...

I received an e-mail this week from a reader feeling discouraged from the lack of responses to his roommate advertisement.  His initial e-mail didn’t state how long his advertisements were online for, but after following up, his advertisements were “live” for about a week and half.  Now, a week and half isn’t a terrible long [...]

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Funniest Craigslist Post

August 23, 2011

I found this craigslist posting via tweet.  It’s has got to be one of the funniest Craigslist advertisements I’ve read.  This guy is describing himself for landlords to reply.   Konichiwa bitches. Are you looking for the most kick-ass fucking roommate that ever lived? If so, look no further. You fucking found him. I’m a [...]

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Tools and Resources for Doing Business on Craigslist

July 18, 2011
living virtual in an interconnected remote resource world

Over the past few years, I’ve posted countless number of Craigslist advertisements either to look for roommates or to sell stuff.  Naturally as you do something over and over again, you learn stuff along the way.  With posting advertisements on Craigslist and replying to inquiries, there are some tools and resources I learned to use [...]

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Contacting References

June 17, 2011

After you’ve given the “MTV Cribs” tour to a prospective roommate, you’ll most likely have an idea whether that person is a fit or not.  In some cases, just to be certain, you may want to contact a few people on their reference list (if they provided one).  With a reference list in hand, the [...]

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How to Find the Perfect Roommate

May 24, 2011
Jen, Navarro

As you may or may not know, I’ve been looking for a roommate for the past 4 weeks and have yet to find one.  To step up my search, I enlisted the help of a blogger friend, Paula who blogs over at  http://AffordAnything.org to share her thoughts on finding a roommate. Paula rents out units [...]

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Avoid Getting Scammed

May 20, 2011
225/365 - scam

For the past few weeks now, I’ve been looking for a roommate to fill my vacant room, which has been empty for nearly 4 weeks.  With advertisements posted on craigslist and various other online mediums, I’ve been getting a fairly good number of e-mails from scammer posing and roommates.  By the looks of sender’s e-mail [...]

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My Deal with Pets

May 4, 2011
pets

This past week, I showed my place to a potential roommate who I found via roommates.com.  I’ve been looking for a roommate for about the last two weeks and lately I’ve been finding more reliable inquires from roommates.com than with craigslist.  Anyway, with the month of May now here and the fact that I might [...]

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Looking for the Tenth

April 28, 2011
No 10 - black on white

If you didn’t know, I’m looking for a new roommate(the tenth roommate) and already have ads up on craigslist and roommates.com.  So far, there haven’t been too many responses.  In fact, I think I received more e-mails from scammers than I did from potential roommates.  I’m getting tired of the “hi, my name is such [...]

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Forget Paper Application, Online Application For Landlords made Easy at Leasely.com

February 23, 2011
Resting

A few months ago, I received an e-mail from Walter Chen, the founder of Leasely to try out his new service, Leasely.  This is a service geared towards landlords who want to implement an online application process for prospective tenants to fill out electronically versus filling out a traditional paper application.  The system is pretty [...]

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