This 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…
> 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. Not sure were you're getting that. People live with unknown (before) roomates etc all the time. I know it for a fact all over Europe, especially for younger people and Europe,…
Landlords commonly perform reference checks but individual owners or students looking to fill a room in their current apartment typically don’t have the resources to. Don’t they deserve to know more about their potential roommates before they’re sharing a living room with them?