Anyone Struggle to Find House Hacking Roommates?

[Carey Aydelotte]

I'm strongly considering buying a bigger-than-I-need house in Boise's overheated market for house hacking. My biggest fear is that I won't be able to find tenants to actually fill the house. Has anyone out there struggled to get enough tenants and if so, what did you do about it? I'm willing to try short, medium, or long term tenants. I would be living there.

[Miller McSwain]

I'm currently house hacking (rent-by-room), and we have had no issues filling our units. We've had 2 turnovers so far, with 0 vacancy (new tenant moved in the day the previous moved out). We do list our units on a lot of sites though to ensure we get lots of interest.

Like I said, we only have experience with rent-by-room, but I'll list some sites for other strategies too 😊

Traditional Long Term Rental:
- Zillow
- Realtor.com
- Hotpads
- FB Marketplace
- FB Groups
- Apartments.com
- Craigslist

Rent-by-room Rental:
- FB Marketplace
- FB Groups
- Zillow
- Roomies.com
- Roomiapp.com
- Roomster.com

Short-Term-Rental:
- Airbnb
- VRBO
- Flip Key
- Booking.com

Medium-Term Rental:
- Furnished Finders
- Kopa.co
- Airbnb (with 30 day minimum stay)