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For owners and operators

List your rooms where Hampton Roads renters are already looking.

Co-Living in VA is a room-by-room rental board for Hampton Roads. We built it to fill our own houses, and it is now open to other owners. You keep your tenants, your leases and your rent. We put your rooms in front of people who are specifically looking for a room rather than a whole house.

Listing is free through February 10, 2027. After that it is $99 per month per property, however many rooms are on it.

Rooms versus one tenant

The case for co-living is simple: several rents instead of one, minus the utilities you now pay. Put your own numbers in. Mortgage, taxes and insurance are the same whichever way you rent it, so they are left out — this compares the income side only.

Our Hampton Roads rooms average $914.
Co-living only. A single tenant pays their own.
Percent of collected rent. Ours is 10%.
Percent. Rooms turn over more often than houses.
Co-living, after costs — —
Room rent collected—
Less vacancy—
Less management—
Less utilities and internet—
Less maintenance—
As a single rental, after costs—
Difference per year—

An estimate from the figures you entered, not a projection or a guarantee. Your city may also require a rental licence or a conditional use permit to rent a house by the room.

What it costs

Pick how much of the work you want to keep.

Listing

Freethrough February 10, 2027, then $99/month per property
  • Every room on the property, one flat price
  • Its own page, with photos, rent and what's included
  • Listed on the city page renters actually search
  • Enquiries go straight to you
  • Cancel any month, no contract

Placement

Per roompriced per placement — ask on the call
  • We answer the enquiries and run the tours
  • Application, background and income screening
  • Virginia-compliant lease, signed electronically
  • Deposit and first month collected
  • You pay only when the room is actually filled

Full management

10%of collected rent, by Shared Abode
  • Leasing, rent collection and delinquency follow-through
  • Maintenance coordination and vendors
  • Virginia notices, filings and court appearances
  • Monthly owner statements and distributions
  • Furnishing and setup for a new co-living house

How listing works

A property is usually live within a couple of days of the call.

Book the call

Fifteen minutes. Tell us the address, how many rooms, what each one rents for, and what is included in the rent.

Send what you have

Room photos, rents, deposits and the date each room is free. If your photos are weak we will tell you honestly, and we can shoot them for you locally.

We build the listings

Each room gets written up to the same standard as our own, put on the board and on its city page, and you get the links.

Enquiries reach you

By phone, text or email, whichever you prefer. You decide who tours and who signs — unless you ask us to handle placement.

What we will and will not list

We list

Private rooms in shared houses anywhere in Hampton Roads — Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News and the surrounding cities. Furnished or unfurnished, utilities included or not, as long as the listing says which.

We will not list

Rooms where the rent, deposit or availability on the page is not the real one. Rooms in a property that is not legally permitted to be rented by the room in its city. Any listing whose wording would violate the Fair Housing Act or the Virginia Fair Housing Law.

Keeping it accurate

Tell us the day a room is taken and we pull it the same day. A board full of rooms that are already gone is worth nothing to the next renter, and nothing to you.

Your tenants stay yours

Listing here does not make us your manager and gives us no claim on your tenants or your rent. Management is a separate agreement you would have to sign.

Questions owners ask

Why is it free right now?

Because a listing board is only worth paying for once renters are using it. We are filling the board first. Listing is free through February 10, 2027 for every property added during that window, and we will tell you before anything changes.

What happens after the free period?

$99 per month per property, with every room on that property included. If you have a six-room house, it is still $99. Cancel any month and your listings come down.

Are you going to compete with me for tenants?

We manage our own houses and they are on the same board. A renter who wants Norfolk and sees ten rooms instead of three is more likely to lease one of them, and some of those are yours. That is the whole reason to share a board.

Do I have to use Shared Abode to manage the property?

No. Most owners who list here manage their own rooms. Management and placement are separate services you can take or leave.

How do renters reach me?

However you want — phone, text or email, listed on the room. If you would rather not field enquiries at all, that is what placement is for.

Can I list a whole house instead of rooms?

This board is built for room-by-room renting. If you have a whole unit to fill, call anyway — we get those enquiries constantly and we pass them on.

Start with a 15-minute call

Bring the address, the room count and what each room rents for. If your property is not a fit, we will say so on the call rather than waste your time.

Or call 757-756-8877 · sharedabode@gmail.com