NYC Rooms For Rent

Great Service… Very satisfied. Highly Recommend Nyc Rooms 4 Rent. They Got me a room Within minutes walking into their office.

This place is a total scam. Their sister site/​office is called «Rooms For rent In Brooklyn» is also a scam. My fiancé & I were looking to rent a room & having difficulty finding a place that accepts couples so I paid $ 150 in cash which all it gets you is an access code that gives you access to their database which expires in exactly 1 month so if you don’t find a place by then you’re shit out of luck & your $ 150. They did not even offer to help me locate a place. There’s a few places listed on the main page when you log in. Hopefully you find one there because none of the links I clicked on worked. No one we called wanted couples. We found one place in Brooklyn in which the super told us he did not post on either of their sites (this place was INFESTED with roaches & wreaked of cat piss but we saw no cat by the way). The super posted on Craigslist & they basically copied & pasted his ad to their site without informing him. They claimed these rooms were pre-​approved as well as the room seekers, when neither is true. They took our personal information including copies of my ID & SS number, but no background check on us & they clearly didn’t screen any of their rooms which they were obviously not given permission to list. They should be reported to the Better Business Bureau.

I came in looking for a room with my girlfriend and got accommodated the same day. We went to look at the room & we ended up loving it. Got the keys the same day, me and my girlfriend are completely satisfied.

I’m only giving them a 4 because all the comments are negative or I’d might of had an argument for 5 stars. Last Aug I moved from BK (couched it there after moving from CA) so first Apt I go to these guys. They asked my weekly range it was $ 150ish…so I paid first week, last week, and the agency what ever a week was…1 time payment) so I ended up paying $ 175 ($ 525 starting cost), they gave me 2 addresses called the owner to meet me. I walked to the first place; it had wifi, tv in room, huge bed, nice window. Then I walked to the next place; darker, no wifi (which made the diff), so I went back to the first place and gave her an envelope with first 2 weeks rent and went to BK a got my stuff and moved in that same day, less then 2hrs time.
Anyhow was gunna go back tomorrow so I looked them up and now I’m worried my next experience could suck alot more… stressing me out now, so we’ll see. #FingersCrossed

I wish Unilocal allowed people to leave NO stars. They lied to us several times, charged higher than other places, told us to go to rooms that did not meet our criteria which wasted our time and the landlords (at one place they didn’t even want to let us past the front door and they had a major attitude). Because the fee is nonrefundable we tried to keep an open mind about the rooms they were sending us to even though it was in areas that are sketchy. Finally we went to a room where the landlord seemed ok and we paid a week and the deposit. Woke up in the middle of the night with BED BUG bites. The landlord and the agency reacted like this was normal. In the morning we went back to the agency. The OWNER was there cleaning the office and refused to help us saying they were closed that day and we should come back tomorrow. We asked where were we supposed to sleep? She told us to go to a hotel. We moved our things out and crashed at a friend’s. The next day they either didn’t answer calls or said they would call back and never did. In the meantime the landlord had showed up at my job and had a meltdown, and had yelled at me several times on the phone all the while claiming I was «too worried» about getting the deposit back because she was a «church woman» and didn’t believe in hurting people. She also said the super of the building made a visual daytime inspection and found no bugs so in their minds a) the room was fine b) they were NOT going to treat it and c) they were going to move someone else in! She also said we brought the bugs AND took them with us (what???). Finally the agency agreed to let the landlord drop the deposit off at the office and I could come by later and drop off the keys. This was a relief because the landlord was very emotional (family issues mixed with low stress tolerance) and she had been playing games about meeting up (despite requesting an hour notice so I could leave work and requesting we meet away from the infested apartment she called late in the day saying she had no cellphone, was at the apartment and I could stop by if i wanted to, and she would only be there for a few minutes… did things like this several times) We visited our previous sublet and they had moved back into their bedroom with no problems. We verified we received no bites once we had left that apartment and there were no issues with our previous room (which we knew because we never had a problem there). Went back to the office to get the deposit and drop off keys. After this was done the OWNER starts throwing a fit in front of me in Spanish. I asked what was wrong? And the agent and OWNER proceed to launch accusations — I was supposed to come by the previous day and never came (not true), there are no bed bugs in the room (no thorough inspection or treatment done and why are they angry at us the people who got bitten instead of being concerned about sending more innocent people there), that the previous renter was fine with the room (lies — it was not a renter it was the landlord’s daughter who lived in the room before us. and landlord is not a single woman living in the space she is a married woman with her whole family living in the front room and another renter living in a second room), and saying that I never called the office and they were angry I stopped by when the office was closed and expected her — the OWNER, to help up after being bitten all night. This went on for awhile as 2 teenagers giggled and laughed at me. I asked the agent why I could never get straight answers from them. I stated that people who are sent to rooms and bitten should at least get an apology. When the OWNER was done walking around and venting to her employees about me (in front of me) she sat with a distressed look at her computer. I asked the agent if the discussion was finally over and he said «yes because I cannot communicate with you». It was really over-​the-​top ridiculous. Especially considering they already had the keys back and I had the deposit. It should’ve been a quick transaction and a professional goodbye. Forget the 30 day guarantee. If this is the way they do business who’s to say the next place isn’t worse? They also let me know that the landlord has been their friend for 15 years. I questioned why ALL of the places they referred us to were friends of theirs? And how issues could ever get resolved calmly if it always became a dramatic confrontation? If you are a stranger to them and their friend says you are stressing them out you have to deal with a very unprofessional resolution of them venting how they feel about it. I can’t believe this place is even a real business.