Tested Safe Room Rental Checks
A woman we spoke with last year found a room fifteen minutes from her new…
Why Some Cheap Rooms Are Never Actually Safe
A tenant once told me she’d found a room for $410 a month in a…
Room Rental Contracts Most Renters Skip
A room rental agreement usually gets treated like paperwork you sign so you can get…
What Happens if Your Room Landlord Vanishes
A tenant we heard from last year paid her rent on the first of the…
How to Verify a Room Listing Is Real
A reader wrote in last month asking why a “too good to be true” room…
Why You Should Never Wire a Room Deposit
A woman in Ohio wired $1,400 to a “landlord” who sent her twelve photos of…
4 Signs a Room Landlord Is Not Legitimate
A woman in Ohio wired a $600 deposit to a “landlord” she’d never met, for…
Is It Safe to Rent a Room From a Stranger?
A woman I’ll call Priya, because she asked me not to use her real name…
Why Room Listings Without Photos Are Risky
A listing with no photos is not automatically a scam. But in six years of…
Room Rental Scams Nobody Warns You About
A woman in Austin once wired a $1,400 deposit for a room she never saw…
