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Coliving trend on the rise for working millennials
New coliving services offered by tech start-ups are providing options for not only the places to live but also roommates
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While homeowners tend to ask for at least six months’ rent in advance, coliving spaces such as Rukita and Yukstay allow users to pay a monthly rent instead.
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or those who opt to live in apartment units, finding the right roommates to share the cost and space with may be a thing in the past.
New coliving services offered by tech start-ups are providing options for not only the places to live but also roommates
Rachel Theos, who works in digital marketing for a private company, used to live in a rooming house (kos) in Grogol, West Jakarta, before sharing a unit in Taman Anggrek with two complete strangers.
She landed the unit, along with the roommates, when she ran into a coliving platform called Yukstay, which offers a coliving scheme by providing fully furnished apartments that may already have other tenants. She pays Rp 2.6 million (US$ 185.92) a month for a room, which she said was over her budget but worth it considering the amenities she got.
The thought of sharing the space with two other women deterred her at first, but she said that after several months of living together, it was going well so far. The platform also conducts background checks in pairing tenants, which she found helpful.
“My housemates are nice, and I get to make new friends with them. We don’t really meet often because of our different work hours, but when we do, we can chat for a long time,” the 24-year-old said.
Khansa Nabilah Agisinfia also joined the coliving bandwagon in the past month. She has been living at a coliving space in the form of a landed house in Karawaci, Tangerang, Banten. The house is managed by a coliving platform called Rukita.
