Good room renting sites, or making ads work better on Craigslist?

Your photos look kind of... depressing. (It also seems a little expensive for being that far out, but you can't change either of those things, so focus on the pictures.) Clean up the clutter (or just shove it under the bed or into the closet), open the curtains and blinds, and take photos during the day. Show the rest of the apartment (kitchen, living area), and the outside of the building if possible. Photograph the dishwasher and washing machine, those are selling points. Also: this is for a situation with two roommates? Describe them. No one wants to take a total gamble on strangers without even knowing what they might be like.

From my perspective (as a female who is looking for housing not in your area): 1. Some of these pictures just seem to be of piles of stuff/mess. 2. Add pictures of the rest of the apartment. I ALWAYS want to know what the kitchen and living room look like. 3. Take a better picture of the bathroom. While I can technically create the layout in my head from another pictures, I shouldn't have to.

To get more specific... To prepare for the new photos that you absolutely must take: Take the office chair out of the room. Remove every single item from on top of every single surface. Remove everything that isn't furniture from the floors. Straighten the curtains so they are symmetrical, and open during daylight. Don't try to capture every inch of the room (I'm assuming that's why we are seeing the weird picture of the shoe pile. Instead, try climbing on top of a chair in your doorway to get an angle that shoes MORE of the room in fewer photos. Simple pictures of the spotlessly clean common areas.

A note on the clutter - aside from being visually a turn off, the big problem is that it tells your audience there will not be enough storage to store all of their stuff and hence it needs to stay strewn around the room. Even if that's true, removing it all (ie, making it looks like a compulsive neat freak lives there) will give the impression that there is loads of closet space to store a whole life's worth of stuff and keep the place neat.

What everyone else has said: Agreed that the price seems a bit steep for that far out and for that quality of space. Also, the pictures are truly awful. All I see is ugly, and junk. And 'two women' is not enough to go on. Talk about some interests, jobs, personality traits, etc. It's important to know who you are living with. Other than "room for rent" you haven't said why someone would want to rent it.

As someone who has sublet a lot of apartments/rooms off of Craigslist/AirBnB/etc., I echo above recommendations. In particular: - The pictures are not good. It looks like they're taken at night, and the room looks dark and depressing. Take them during the day, when it is sunny (ideally take them to coincide with direct light coming into your window - e.g. if your window faces east, take them in the morning). - Empty your room of stuff and clutter. The room really looks unappealingly messy, and some of the pictures look like they're simply of piles of clutter. Take all of that out of the room before you photograph it. - I want to see far more pictures of the bathroom and the rest of the apartment (ideally also looking neat and attractive, like your room). - In your ad, tell me more about your roommates, and really sell the place, the roommates, and the location to me. I don't have any sense of why I would want to move into your room. (E.g. "One thing I especially love most this apartment is the big east-facing window in the bedroom: I hardly even need my alarm clock because there is so much sunshine pouring in in the morning. There is also a big park a block away where I like to walk my dog Rocky and decompress after work. You'll also love ¡Sombrero!, the Spanish tapas place one block north, and the little cafe one block south that sells delicious lattes and doesn't mind if you stay all afternoon. My two roommates - Jane and Ellie - are working professionals who are quiet but friendly. We all usually keep to ourselves during the week, but sometimes on weekends we all make dinner together or go and try a new ethnic restaurant in our neighborhood." (etc.)

Every time I've used Craigslist to list a room in NYC, I've gotten dozens of emails about it. I agree, we need to see the ad.

I have read here from multiple people on mefi that a bowl of fruit in a real estate photo can do wonders for your response rate. Might be worth a try. May sound crazy, but it apparently works.

If there's a nice room under there, you'd never know, all you can see is junk. I would literally take everything out of the room except the furniture. All you should see is a bed, dresser and side table or whatever other furniture is in there. Use a white quilt cover/sheet on your bed, it makes it seem brighter and the room larger. Clean up the other areas of the house in exactly the same way, removing all the clutter and just using furniture and clean surfaces except for maybe a vase of flowers or an ornament. Open the windows, let the light in and use nice, clear shots of the kitchen, living areas and bathroom and make sure they're sparkling. Make the place look like somewhere you'd want to live instead of somewhere you're leaving. Describe your room mates, making them sound like people you'd like to live with. Basically you need to sell the place because at the moment, the only people who will be interested in your place probably won't be anyone your room mates will want to live with. A few hours work and this place won't be recognisable.