For those seeking roommates, a bulletin board titled "Random House Finder" can point toward kindred bibliophiles.
And there was another deterrent, as she noted in her Craigslist ad seeking roommates: her father slept on the living-room couch.
Linda Roberts, co-owner of Preferred Rentals and Roommates, an apartment and roommate finder's service in Santa Barbara, Calif., said her company had also found an increase in the number of homeowners -- particularly retirees who live in large houses -- who are seeking roommates.
In the bathroom were posters seeking roommates for group houses, including this one: "We are into open and honest communication, dumpstering, crafts, music, raw/living foods, biking, natural building, permaculture, living in shacks and trailers and all kinds of fun stuff like that.
Roomi works by letting users seeking roommates list their apartments on the app.
The number seeking roommates in the 40-plus age range has increased by 2% in the past two years, what the company calls a "significant figure".
On its other land tours, Mr. Lewis said, the company will seek a roommate; if it fails, it will reduce the single supplement cost by half.
Junior year, she sought out roommates through a Muslim student group.
On the night of Sept. 10, 2001, the filmmaker Brian Sloan put an advertisement online seeking a roommate for his two-bedroom apartment on the edge of SoHo.
When Sue Castroman, a law librarian in Manhattan, posted an online notice seeking a roommate recently, she listed her Upper East Side building's A.T.M. among its amenities.
