Flatmate Rooms www.flatmaterooms.co.uk

Easy to use and found a flatmate.

Received an anonymous text message recommending FlatmateRooms. I asked for their name but no reply. I was suspiciouos. Fortunately I read the reviews (below) which warned me about FlatmateRooms doing this to drum up business, so thank you to other reviewers for warning me off this unscrupulous business.

Do not use. They will harass you with texts, automatically enrol you for recurring fees and have a very infrequent user base - many dormant accounts, with no time log to show last login. Seems like they want people to think there are more users than there actually are, and there aren't many to begin with. Received zero inquiries after 1 week of use. Had instant success with Spareroom.co.uk, a far superior platform.

Stay away from this website. I was looking for a room to rent and then as usual you need to pay for a membership. Where i spent £15 to a 10 days free acess to the renters. Very desapointed. The 2 rooms i've contact then wasn't available for a week. And still advertising the old advert on there. Emailed the flatmateroom and no answer from them at all. I wouldn't recomend.

I found a person to share my home with in one day , was I very fortunate , I think so I'm not sure what checks the site makes on people applying , so did my own checks too ,very happy with my choice thank you

I highly recommend flatmate rooms and it is very useful and efficient for me to let rooms. I have used them a few times and in a short period I found tenants. The ad has not been fully used and they could pause for my next ad. Highly recommend!

I posted a 'room to let' ad on another site and emailed a few people to offer them my room, next thing I received a text from someone posing as one of the people I had contacted, saying they had found somewhere and that I should try Flatmaterooms. So, I posted an ad on Flatmaterooms and within a day received an email about the room, the thing is though, you can't read emails unless you pay. So, I paid £15 to upgrade my membership, emailed the person back and of course they mysteriously disappeared off the site. Go to SpareRoom, Flatmaterooms is a joke.

I was a member for about 2 weeks. But found it hard at first but it got easier when I placed a room wanted advert. It must of made landlords trust me more. I viewed 3 places and then a bedsit was listed and this was great for what I needed. I would say the site is good and has a good search page. I didn't do a room wanted advert first but soon realised its best to have one. Felt a bit like a dating site but it did the job I wanted. They also sent my a link to there advice centre and pointed out how to avoid scam's, wish I new about this when I was on other lower quality sites.

The owners of this site seem to agree that Spam Marketing by texting mobile Numbers they gather from "search adverts" is OK.

I tend to disagree this is good practice, also being annoyed by their texts - hence this review.

Not getting caught doesn't mean it doesn't back fire.

Best of luck 

The site did everything I needed it to do. I started with the free membership, then upgraded after getting 2 replys. Found a nice student to rent the room for 9 months. They also helped with the tenancy agreement.