Whois & Analysis for roomster.com

A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the (user) to pay the lessor (owner) for use of an asset.

Property, buildings and vehicles are common assets that are leased.

Industrial or business equipment is also leased.

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another.

A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for all property charges regularly incurred by the ownership.

A roommate is a person with whom one shares a living facility such as an apartment or dormitory.

Similar terms include dormmate, suitemate, housemate, flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment – in New Zealand, "flatmate" is solely used, regardless of whether the dwelling is an apartment or a detached house), or sharemate (shared living spaces are often called sharehomes in Australia and other Commonwealth countries).

A sharehome is a model of household in which a group of usually unrelated people reside together.

The term generally applies to people living together in rental properties rather than in properties in which any resident is an owner occupier.

In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person living in the same bedroom, whereas in the United States and Canada, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared, although it is common in US universities that having a roommate implies sharing a room together.

This article uses the term "roommate" in the US sense of a person one shares a residence with who is not a relative or significant other.

The informal term for roommate is roomie, which is commonly used by university students.

An apartment (in American and Canadian English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair.

Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent.

In Scotland it is called a block of flats or, if it's a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere.

Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).