If you are looking for rooms to rent in Tembisa, here are your options of what to look at.
We have listed the 4 main platforms that people use to find rooms in Tembisa, and also listed one that you should avoid because of various negative reports of fraud.
Find Rooms to rent in Tembisa
First and best place to look for rooms to rent would be the website Kasi Rooms. This is a website designed specifically for people looking for rooms to rent.
What sets this website apart is that it only lists rooms. This is unlike similar websites that you know that list rooms along with houses. This mixing up of things tends to make it harder to find what you are looking for and you might spend a lot of time sifting through properties just to find what you are looking for.
Another issues that the other websites have is that they list one bedroom apartments under rooms for rent. A lot of these rooms that are listed for rent are also outside of the budget of the majority of people looking for rooms to rent.
This website is by far the one to look at if you are looking for a cheap room to rent.
Rooms2Rent.co.za also lists properties based on their specific area that they are listed in. For example, if you are looking for properties in Ebony Park or Ivory Park, the search feature allows you to search this specific area so you can find the room exactly where you are looking to stay.
Facebook Groups for Rooms to Rent in Tembisa
The second way to find rooms to rent in Tembisa is through one of the Facebook groups dedicated to finding rooms in Tembisa.
Unlike the above option, this one requires a bit more work for various reasons.
For starters, you need patience because some of the members of the group tend to spam the group with irrelevant content.
There is no telling when there are properties available. You don’t know when properties will be advertised and have to hope that something is still available by the time that you are looking at the room.
Thirdly, there is no way to sort by availability or by local area.
Most times, what you have to do is go down the feed, and respond to comments to find out whether a room is still available to rent. Sometimes the person might not respond and the whole process is a whole lot more work than when you are using platforms that are specifically tailored to offering rooms to rent. So to sum it up, the main issues are:
- Not specific enough
- Have to deal with spam from group members
Online Classifieds
An online classifieds website like Gumtree is another option that has been around for quite a long time. It is worth having it as on option, though as you might succeed in finding a room to rent.
The problem with an online classifieds site is that it is not just dedicated to rooms. Because of this, they can sometimes use clickbait articles just to get you to click through on the article and not find what you are looking for.
- Not specific enough
But the good thing about it is that this is an advertising website that most people are familiar with and a lot of landlords use it to list their rooms that the have available for rent. Another plus with Gumtree is that people post there quite often so there are a bunch of new properties being loaded frequently and if you check frequently enough, you can eventually find a room to rent as the listings are refreshed on a daily basis and can be sorted by how long the advertisement has been the website.
Property websites like Property 24 or Private Property.
There are last ditch efforts and ideally, you never want to be using these sites because they are tailored to finding apartments and houses.
But sometimes, people do list rooms for rent here. This is usually people who have an apartment and looking for someone to share with them and share the costs.
You will have to set the search parameters accordingly and whatever you find will be in places where rents cost higher than what the average room renter wants to pay. But we had to list them for the sake of completeness.
Stay away from this website!
There is one website that will probably show up in our results and you need to beware of this specific website, which is Rent Uncle.
The problem with this one is that it is free so it is prone to scammers who create profiles and add properties that do not exist just so they can take people’s money and disappear. There are various reports of people being scammed on this website.
You can read the reviews on Hello Peter, all of which are negative and report the same main issue.
Unless you are a person who like taking risks, we recommend that you do not use this website.
If for some reason you do decide to use it despite the risks, here are some precautions you can take to try to avoid being scammed.
Precautions:
- Don’t pay deposit for a property you have not seen.
- If you are far away, request to do an online video call so that the agent can show you the property