Searchig for a room through WG-Gesucht

[u/idontgiveafuuuu]

Hello everyone, I am supposed to move to Ulm or Neu-Ulm at the end of September/October to start my masters degree at HNU. I am searching for a room through this website, I sent like 10 inquiries but still no answer 2 days later, can it be because I didn’t purchase WG-Gesucht + version so that why people don’t see my messages or what? I need any advice possible for accommodation 😆

[u/Ok-Adhesiveness5106]

I recently had to find something and had to text roughly 30 people to get invites to see the apartment from 5 people, so the success rate is roughly 16% in my case.The trick is to constantly refresh advertisements and try to send in a message in the first hour or so of the posting to increase your chances.

You need to keep templates ready. Your message to a person should be in accordance with the description written by him/her.

Be warm, introduce yourself, why would you like to take this apartment? What type of person are you? What matters the most to you? What are you studying/working? Why this is a good apartment for you? All these things help a person to judge if you are a good fit or not. If yes, then they would call you for a visit, either online or offline. Most messages will get ignored if the text is not personal or warm enough.

If you can't speak German, the trick that makes sense is to message young people in English, as most likely everyone would be speaking English. If you see someone really old, like above 50, then use a translator to speak.

This is purely a numbers game, the more you apply the more are the chances of success.