How to advertise student rentals?

[Eli Rollins]

Hey all! I live near a nursing school and was thinking about doing a house hack \ student rental type of thing where I rent by the room but I was wondering how I would go about advertising the property? And how would I even describe what the situation is to potential tenants?

[Ryan Deasy]

@Eli Rollins hi Eli, renting by the room is all i do. in the ad i describe it as a “shared space”. as soon as someone contacts me, the first thing i say is “this is a shared space with roommates, is that ok for you?” you will have some confusion and some burden of educating people who do not understand the concept but, trust me, it’s worth it.

i use craigslist, apartments.com and zillow. the person who said zillow doesn’t post room rentals is sort of correct. i actually just posted an ad there yesterday. the zillow platform, when you’re making an ad actually asks if it’s a room rental and you can check a box. once you post the ad, you’ll get an email saying zillow doesn’t allow room rentals but they went ahead and posted it on trulia and another one of their sites that they control. thus, it’s still worth it.

let me know how else i can help.