About

Roommates4Boomers is an online national roommate-matching service for women 50 and over. Much like eHarmony, this online services employs a detailed profile system and sophisticated sorting algorithm to match women with similar preferences, attitudes, tastes, and habits. Women who show a high degree of compatibility have the ability to contact one another through the membership site and explore house-sharing possibilities.

With a sleek user-friendly design, Roommates4Boomers has brought the roommate/home share experience for Boomer women into the tech-connected era.  For all visitors to the site, the service is free until a match is found and a member wants to make contact with her potential roommate. After that, the cost is only $29.95 per month.

Founder Karen Venable developed the idea for a roommate-matching service when she found herself single and living alone at age 55, after more than 20 years of marriage. For a time, she moved in with her good friend Carol Buckle, and the companionship and support helped her tremendously through a difficult time. This experience brought home to Karen how important women friends were to her well-being, and she started to think about ways that women her age could come together for friendship and support in shared housing, whether they had a best friend nearby or not. Her research uncovered very few housing/roommate-sharing services for women of the Baby Boom Generation. She saw a huge void to be filled. Many friends had already experienced success with online dating services and agreed that a roommate matching service for women over 50 was a great idea. She began development of Roommates4Boomers a year ago, and launched the website in May 2014.