Hosting on Roomeru

Our listing process walks you through everything:

1. Room type: Entire place, private room, or shared room
2. Location: Enter your address (we only show approximate location until booking)
3. Details: Bedrooms, bathrooms, maximum guests, amenities
4. Photos: Upload high-quality images (we recommend at least 5)
5. Stay terms: You confirm that you are 18 or older, that the room is off-campus housing, that your lease or landlord permits the sublet, and whether roommates remain in the unit
6. Pricing: Your monthly rent and minimum stay (at least 32 nights)
7. Availability: The window the room is free, up to 92 nights
8. Who can book: Which verified students may book (below)
9. Payouts: Connect your Stripe account so rent has somewhere to go

Listings are checked for fair-housing language before they publish: a title or description that names a preference for or against a protected class is refused with the phrase quoted.

• Any verified student (the default)
• Universities in your metro area: students at the schools on our list for your city
• My university only: students at your own school, from your verified .edu domain. Offered when roommates remain in the unit, and not in cities whose law protects student status.

The tier is shown on your listing. It is the only way to narrow who may book: listings cannot state a preference for or against any protected class.

What you set:

• Monthly rent: The guest pays it pro-rated by night for their exact dates
• Minimum stay: 32 nights or more
• Availability: The dates the room is free, up to 92 nights

What the guest pays:

• Rent only. There is no cleaning fee, no security deposit, and no Roomeru fee at launch. Any Roomeru fee that applies in your state is shown on the guest's quote and in the Stay Agreement, never added afterwards.

What you receive:

Each rent charge is settled to your own Stripe account, and you bear the card-processing cost of that charge, which Stripe shows on your account. Roomeru takes nothing from rent at launch. Hosts may later be charged a listing fee, and Roomeru may take a percentage of rent in states where it is licensed to — announced in advance, never applied to a stay already signed.

The schedule:

• Nothing is charged when the guest books; they sign the Stay Agreement and save a payment method
• The first period is charged 14 days before check-in
• Each later period is charged on the day it starts
• You see the full schedule — every period, amount, and charge date — on the booking

If a charge fails:

• We retry and notify you and the guest
• First period not collected within 72 hours of its charge date: the booking is cancelled and your dates reopen
• Later period not collected within 5 days of its start: the stay is treated as ended by the guest with notice from that day; rent for nights already stayed is still owed to you

Before you can publish:

Your Stripe account must be fully set up — identity verified and a bank account added — because rent is paid to it directly. Stripe, not Roomeru, issues any Form 1099-K for what you receive.

Requests and counter-offers:

• You review each request and accept or decline it. The guest has already signed and saved a payment method.
• You can propose different dates. If the guest accepts, the stay is re-quoted for the new dates and they sign again.

If you need to cancel:

Cancelling a confirmed stay refunds the guest every night they have not yet stayed, and no future period is charged. Every cancellation counts against you: 3 of them, or any cancellation after check-in, suspends your account and unpublishes your listings.

No-shows:

If a guest neither arrives nor contacts you within 48 hours of check-in, you can report a no-show. The first period stays with you and later periods are cancelled.

If the guest leaves early:

A guest who ends the stay early gives 30 days' notice and owes rent through the notice period. If you re-let the room before the notice period ends, their obligation stops at the re-let date.

You should:

• Relist the room as soon as the guest gives notice
• Accept qualified applicants at a reasonable rate
• Record the re-let date on the booking so the guest's settlement adjusts accordingly

Roomeru does not collect security deposits from guests, and does not collect for damage or decide damage disputes. The guest is responsible to you for damage they cause under the Stay Agreement you both signed; recovering it is between you and them.

Protect yourself the simple way:

1. Document the room with photos and video at check-in and check-out
2. Keep conversations on the platform so there is a record
3. Raise damage with the guest directly, with photos and receipts