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Put an end to apartment rent for the time during the day when you aren't home

25 points by jonthepirate 10y ago

madmax96 10y ago
First the site claims that rent will be slashed by fifty percent, then it recommends a 65-35 split. Also: realghostroommate@gmail.com? Seriously?
- brianwawok 10y ago
  OK so not a unicorn. Maybe they can find a few people I guess?
Broken_Hippo 10y ago
As a former night shift worker - and one that prefers evening or night work as an adult - I'd be wary of this service. Sure, they'd rarely see me working the night shift. But they'd also find that they really needed to be about as quiet during the day as they'd expect me to be on my nights off. If one is the type that needs a quiet house, sharing a studio with someone is going to be rough indeed. I'm even sometimes likely to have folks over at the place at 2 and 3 am - is such a thing a problem? However, I'm happy they like to describe us as perfect roomates.
shanemhansen 10y ago
> Some roommates spilit at 50%. Seems reputable.
PeterWhittaker 10y ago
OK, this may be serious. But wouldn't serious people use a spell checker before they posted "absoluteley" and "spilit"? If you cannot be bothered to pay attention to every little detail in your public face, why should I believe you have paid attention to vital details behind the scene? #youhadonejob
- latkin 10y ago
  "Varys," "reccommend"...
KC8ZKF 10y ago
In the Navy, we used to call this "hot racking." Sailors on different watches were sometimes required to share a rack. Good luck to anybody who does this. I'll leave it at that.
- douche 10y ago
  That was my first thought as well. Hot bunking might be an acceptable practice on submarines, but damn, if that is the solution to the SF rent problem, maybe looking for work elsewhere is a better plan.
- deleted 10y ago
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bio4m 10y ago
This sounds awful. if you have a person sharing the same space you live in but turns out to be messy and abhorrent, you'll barely ever get a chance to talk it out with them. Also there seems to be an assumption that both of you work long enough hours that you never bump into each other. Hardly a well thought out plan.
cwmma 10y ago
Back when I worked at a coffee shop and had to get up to open it at 6am I had a roommate that worked second shift so we mainly interacted when he would still be up when I would get up or when one of us was hanging out with friends after work which was of course when the other one was trying to sleep leading to a pretty antagonistic relationship between us. 3/10 would not do again
nso95 10y ago
Stupid

25 points by jonthepirate 10y ago

First the site claims that rent will be slashed by fifty percent, then it recommends a 65-35 split. Also: realghostroommate@gmail.com? Seriously?

brianwawok 10y ago
OK so not a unicorn. Maybe they can find a few people I guess?

Broken_Hippo 10y ago

As a former night shift worker - and one that prefers evening or night work as an adult - I'd be wary of this service. Sure, they'd rarely see me working the night shift. But they'd also find that they really needed to be about as quiet during the day as they'd expect me to be on my nights off. If one is the type that needs a quiet house, sharing a studio with someone is going to be rough indeed. I'm even sometimes likely to have folks over at the place at 2 and 3 am - is such a thing a problem? However, I'm happy they like to describe us as perfect roomates.

shanemhansen 10y ago

> Some roommates spilit at 50%. Seems reputable.

PeterWhittaker 10y ago

OK, this may be serious. But wouldn't serious people use a spell checker before they posted "absoluteley" and "spilit"? If you cannot be bothered to pay attention to every little detail in your public face, why should I believe you have paid attention to vital details behind the scene? #youhadonejob

latkin 10y ago
"Varys," "reccommend"...

KC8ZKF 10y ago

In the Navy, we used to call this "hot racking." Sailors on different watches were sometimes required to share a rack. Good luck to anybody who does this. I'll leave it at that.

douche 10y ago
That was my first thought as well. Hot bunking might be an acceptable practice on submarines, but damn, if that is the solution to the SF rent problem, maybe looking for work elsewhere is a better plan.
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bio4m 10y ago

This sounds awful. if you have a person sharing the same space you live in but turns out to be messy and abhorrent, you'll barely ever get a chance to talk it out with them. Also there seems to be an assumption that both of you work long enough hours that you never bump into each other. Hardly a well thought out plan.

cwmma 10y ago

Back when I worked at a coffee shop and had to get up to open it at 6am I had a roommate that worked second shift so we mainly interacted when he would still be up when I would get up or when one of us was hanging out with friends after work which was of course when the other one was trying to sleep leading to a pretty antagonistic relationship between us. 3/10 would not do again

nso95 10y ago

Stupid