Badi - Rooms for rent 17+

I really like the app even though the name is kinda cryptic/meaningless (in English you just think of baddies lol!) and the reason I can’t award 5 stars are as follows: 1) when I listed my room I had to do the form 3 times because in between writing the whole listing then realising I didn’t have a photo of the bathroom I took the photo only to come back to the app having timed out or something and lost all my hard work. Then next time one of the images wouldn’t send - some infinite loop issue and there’s no save feature so third time I had all the text images prepared in a document so I could copy and paste! Second thing is that it would be super handy to see the name of the person inside the chat/conversation with the person so you know who you’re messaging. Having a few chats on the go at the same time it gets kinda confusing! And thirdly, the app occasionally reports new messages (a badge on the home screen/iPhone) but when you click into the app, there’s no new messages to be seen. All in all, a good app and I’ve had some good contacts so far, despite none of them ‘converting’ into housemates...yet ;)

I feel the app has a nice vibe and has actually nice listings BUT the date filter does not work. I put the filter to see available homes 3 months from now and it gives me listings available right now... it should give me listings within 2 weeks range from my date or something like that.

Also it does not have the shared areas filter. For me the 2 most important filters (dates & type of house with shared common areas( are not there sooooo not very valuable app for me at the moment.

(Used Badi in London). Love the concept of the app but there really needs to be more work done to stop scams. Almost everyone I’ve encountered has been a scammer. The majority of the people I spoke to were from the same four agencies, only telling me where they worked once I’d agreed a time to meet at their office to discuss the room of interest. Each time, I found out that the room hadn’t existed in the first place. Using Badi, they send beautiful rooms to lure you to their office, upon arrival they announce that “Every room I sent has been taken! Rooms are going so fast!” (which is later used to pressurise you into signing contracts) then offer you far lower quality rooms (completely incomparable to the ones they send online) at much greater prices, and seriously pressurise you into paying money before you can so much as view them. Unfortunately, every single person I managed to arranged to meet off the app was from one of these companies. Again I do think the app is a great idea, it could be absolutely brilliant, it’s just currently being massively misused by the majority of people on it.