Housing

Submitted by Zaritta_b_me t3_112ljyl in CambridgeMA

A college age friend of my daughter is moving to Cambridge. Where should she search for a roommate situation for housing?

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dtmfadvice t1_j8l5chn wrote

Scam: asking for money before you see the apartment.

Bullshit but actually happens: application fees and the fee of 1 month rent to a broker who does no work.

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IamUnamused t1_j8lbakr wrote

The broker advertises the apartment, shows the apartment, vets applicants, conducts background checks, facilitates paperwork, draws up the lease, and answers any questions that arise. Almost no work!

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zepporamone t1_j8lgpgb wrote

The broker cuts and pastes generic and often inaccurate descriptions of apartments to Craigslist, shows up late to show apartments that don't actually meet the specifications of the potential renter, makes a bunch of broad assumptions about the character of the potential renter on the basis of often racist/classist ballyhoo, photocopies a picture ID and submits a simple CORI check, facilitates the printing and stapling of leases and other paperwork largely pulled from standardized templates, and tells you that they'll look into those questions and then stops returning your calls once they've found some poor hapless college students desperate enough to rent the rat trap. Yeah, pretty much no actual work!

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TLDR_no_life t1_j8kwzo2 wrote

MIT and Harvard both have housing websites where open rooms are posted by roommates. Other than that, Craigslist is her best bet.

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EmotionalFruit6 t1_j8mbee8 wrote

Last time I checked you can find rooms for rent on Hotpads

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Zaritta_b_me OP t1_j8o4m27 wrote

Thanks u all. I will pass on the info. She’s escaping from Baton Rouge/LSU so all the support possible. Much thanks!

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