Rent a bedroom in a house?

A lot of times I've heard of people renting a room in a house.  You know, a place where each bedroom is rented to somebody and the living area/bathrooms/kitchen is shared.  So I'm starting to think that maybe that would be a good option for first few months in London, instead of jumping into renting a flat right away.  Has anybody done it?  And where would I find a place online that advertises that kind of housing? 

I haven't done it but I am considering it myself for the first few months since the situation with my DH is still messy at best. 

Here are some links I have found. Hopefully others will post more. Good luck!


http://www.moveflat.co.uk/cgi-bin/dbr.asp?n=8910
http://www.loot.com/rs6/homepage.asp?action=channelhp&atp=property&subtap=share_lvl1&page_id=19&ri=11076
http://www.rentamatic.co.uk/
http://uk.easyroommate.com
http://www.flatmateclick.co.uk/
http://www.roomads.co.uk/
http://london.craigslist.org/

In addition to the ones Courtney just put up - only one I can think of rightaway is www.gumtree.com

obviously house sharing has it's own set of 'issues' and so long as your fine with the positives and negatives, it'd make a good way of 'starting' off here in London.

You may wanna check the agents around Heathrow, I spoke to a nice middle aged lady who does alot of Heathrow airport rentals for the flight attendant girlies, and I remember her saying she likes to put all girls into a houseshare.

I wish I could afford more properties to rent! I'd have all you 'popping over here Americans' nicely looked after ! im a 'nice' landlord!!!!

Dennis! West London UK!!

I have done it...as long as you don't mind sharing common areas w/other people who may have very different lifestyles,  I think it's a great option

I found myroom(it was in Dublin, Ireland) on a site called DAFT which used to also have pages for London, Galway and more...but that was 5+ yrs ago now and I'mnot sure they're  still functional or free

www.DAFT.ie was the URL

Glorious heavens, you guys are fabulous!!!!  Thank you so much, I'll definately make use of the sites. 

one more question, a bit stupid maybe, but what does 'pcm' mean?   per____month?  I can't figure it out...

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oh, thank you!

It took me a little bit to figure it out, too.

hehe   I can't believe I'm already finding some awesome places to live; it makes me want to move to UK right away... but unfortunately I need to wait till autumn...

Before Dale & I decided to move in together I used http://uk.easyroommate.com , its limited unless you pay a small fee.