Emily’s Housemate Heaven
HousemateHeaven.com ends forever the horrors of the housemate from hell.
There’s nothing worse than having to share a house with someone you can’t stand. Now, at last, a new accommodation website offers a solution to the problem of the housemate from hell.
HousemateHeaven.com aims to prevent nightmarish flat share situations by introducing an internet dating-style questionnaire within people’s online profiles.
It means househunters will be able to find like-minded mates to share with while landlords and sitting tenants will be able to specify what kind of person they’d consider renting out a room to.
Founder Emily Hill, 25, decided to launch the site after seven years of house sharing – and a few unpleasant experiences of her own.
She said: “HousemateHeaven.com is the first website to give you a good idea about the lifestyle preferences of your potential housemates.
“Like most young people I’ve struggled to get on the property ladder due to crazy house prices so I’ve had to share houses.
“Living in a shared house can be great fun as long as you get on well with your fellow housemates. But it only takes one rotten apple to drag the whole atmosphere in the house down.
“There have been one or two people I’ve ended up sharing with who I wouldn’t have chosen as friends yet I found myself stuck with them under the same roof.”
Emily added that the idea for www.housemateheaven.com came when showing people around the spare room in her shared house in London.
“Lots of people came to view the room, but only a few of them had anything in common with me and the friends I was sharing with – for the others it had been a wasted journey.
“That’s when I decided to set up a website that could indicate in advance whether you’re likely to agree on issues like house parties, and the washing up.”
Membership is free until the end of January and everyone who joins HousemateHeaven.com will submit details of the property they’re offering or looking for.
People will then take a ‘Lifestyle Questionnaire’ to record their views on cleaning, socialising within the house, guests and sharing possessions. Their results will generate a ‘Lifestyle Type’ and the system will match them with compatible housemates in their desired areas of London.
HousemateHeaven.com will initially serve only the capital, but will be rolled out across the rest of the UK later this year if it proves as popular as Emily hopes.
HousemateHeaven.com aims to prevent nightmarish flat share situations by introducing an internet dating-style questionnaire within people’s online profiles.
It means househunters will be able to find like-minded mates to share with while landlords and sitting tenants will be able to specify what kind of person they’d consider renting out a room to.
Founder Emily Hill, 25, decided to launch the site after seven years of house sharing – and a few unpleasant experiences of her own.
She said: “HousemateHeaven.com is the first website to give you a good idea about the lifestyle preferences of your potential housemates.
“Like most young people I’ve struggled to get on the property ladder due to crazy house prices so I’ve had to share houses.
“Living in a shared house can be great fun as long as you get on well with your fellow housemates. But it only takes one rotten apple to drag the whole atmosphere in the house down.
“There have been one or two people I’ve ended up sharing with who I wouldn’t have chosen as friends yet I found myself stuck with them under the same roof.”
Emily added that the idea for www.housemateheaven.com came when showing people around the spare room in her shared house in London.
“Lots of people came to view the room, but only a few of them had anything in common with me and the friends I was sharing with – for the others it had been a wasted journey.
“That’s when I decided to set up a website that could indicate in advance whether you’re likely to agree on issues like house parties, and the washing up.”
Membership is free until the end of January and everyone who joins HousemateHeaven.com will submit details of the property they’re offering or looking for.
People will then take a ‘Lifestyle Questionnaire’ to record their views on cleaning, socialising within the house, guests and sharing possessions. Their results will generate a ‘Lifestyle Type’ and the system will match them with compatible housemates in their desired areas of London.
HousemateHeaven.com will initially serve only the capital, but will be rolled out across the rest of the UK later this year if it proves as popular as Emily hopes.