Assuredly – Live with People You Trust
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Assuredly – Live with People You Trust
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#2Is this site for people who don't want to make a phone call?
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#3How are you expecting your staff will understand the priorities of your clients as well as the clients themselves? In other words, how do you know what questions to ask, and whether they're important to the client?
If this process requires extra guidance from the client up front, isn't it just easier to just make the phone calls yourself (like nickthemagicman suggested)?
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#4This strikes me as odd: is it cultural?
In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends.
The ways somebody can be a good or bad apartment-mate go much further than anything that I imagine can be discovered by a third party making a few phone calls according to a script. Can Assuredly knock out the most egregiously unpleasant people? Probably.
But it couldn't tell you that while I paid my rent on time and made no loud noises, I would be essentially absent from the apartment I shared one year because I all-but-moved-in with my girlfriend. And I didn't renew the lease because I did move in with her the next year. Was I a bad apartment-mate? That depends on what you wanted from me. I'm certain that I wasn't what was wanted in that case.
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#5Assuming there is an actual need here, the biggest problem with this business is there's probably going to be very little repeat business.
Customer acquisition costs vs lifetime value will kill em.
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#6This strikes me as odd: is it cultural? In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends. The ways somebody can be a good or bad apartment-mate go much further than anything that I imagine can be discovered by a third party maki…
Plenty of people here in Lisbon - particularly university students, but not only - seek to share apartments because they can't afford anything else; if you make minimum wage, the rent of a reasonable house in the city will easily eat 3/5 of your salary.
We rent rooms in a couple of 3-bedroom houses and, as far as I know, our renters aren't friend, though they're usually friendly, they don't really socialize. I think you'd be a great apartment-mate for most of them.
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#7Nice project, but after sharing flat for 15 years with people from all over the world I've learned that the flatmate that doesn't click with you, can perfectly click with another roomie. So I doubt the tool will be accurate, it's highly relative.
Personally I'd prefer a site for meeting potential flatmates that are techie/startuppers? In the valley chances are that 70% of potential flatmates are somewhat involved in the industry, but here in EU is much difficult. For instance I'd like to move to London or Berlin for some months but finding techies for sharing a flat is not easy...
Does anyone know of a tool/website for this?
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#8Does the person have to (legally) accept that you ask questions about them ?
I know I would not feel comfortable about someone asking questions about me to my previous roommates and I wouldn't give information about them to a third party.
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#9This strikes me as odd: is it cultural? In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends. The ways somebody can be a good or bad apartment-mate go much further than anything that I imagine can be discovered by a third party maki…
Plenty of people here in Lisbon - particularly university students, but not only - seek to share apartments because they can't afford anything else; if you make minimum wage, the rent of a reasonable house in the city will easily eat 3/5 of your salary. We rent rooms in a couple of 3-bedroom houses and, as far as I know, our renters aren't friend, though they're usually friendly, they don't really socialize. I think…
maybe you misused the words, but are you talking about renting whole HOUSE in largest city & capital of a western europe country? Places like that I've been, normal people (not on minimal wage, rather average salaries) cannot afford renting a proper house in the city even if they give out full single salary. Edge if the city yes, but anything usable in the city - nope.
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#10In the US anyway, landlords already run reference and credit checks.
So now, in addition to the intrusive questions with gobs of personal data that the landlords give us, we will have to give more data to this service and have future roommates run credit checks on each other? No thanks.
This creep of "services" into what should be a part of normal social interactions and analysis is slightly worrying; to say nothing of the commercialization of personal relations ("You read the reviews before buying a toaster on Amazon, why wouldn't you want to learn more about the person you're about to share a bathroom with?"). And I say this despite having had a 'bad roommate' situation last year which this service would have probably prevented (in fact, in that case, the landlord's checks did flag the guy, but we let him live with us anyway).