Are You America's Best Roommate?
If so, we want to know! For the fourth year, Apartments.com is searching for acts of roommate excellence across the country. Simply submit a video illustrating what makes you America's most desirable roommate and you could walk away with FREE Rent for a Year plus $10,000 and the coveted title of Roommate of the Year.
- Do you make a four-course meal for your roommate every night of the week?
- Have you decorated your walls with elaborate murals of you and your roommate watching TV on the couch?
- Do you put your pet on a pedestal?
- Do you iron your roommate's socks?
- Do you keep the energy bill - and your carbon footprint - low by turning off the lights after you or your roommate has left the room?
How To Enter
Are you a renter? If so, you may be eligible to compete for a year of FREE Rent plus $10,000! Check the full contest rules and submit your video entry between April 2, 2012 and May 21, 2012, for your chance to win! Entering is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
Read the Official Rules to the Roommate of the Year contest.
Upload your video entry of two minutes or less.
Distinguish yourself from other roommates by competing in one of the four contest categories that best defines your inner roomie.
It's not a glamorous job, but somebody has to do it. Making sure the electric bill gets paid each month and scrubbing the microwave after someone's "soup explosion" two months ago sometimes makes you feel like you are running a daycare in your apartment. But all that work is about to pay off big. Show us how you manage the household while still maintaining your sanity and a year of FREE Rent could leave you with one less item on that LONG to-do list.
Sometimes the best roommates aren't even human. They may not pay rent, but pets are great at making us laugh or helping us get through tough times. Show us what makes you the best roommate to your pets including games you play together or tricks that they have learned and that freeloader can start pulling his or her weight by helping you win FREE Rent for a Year.
Do you wash out and reuse plastic baggies? Switch out energy-guzzling 150W bulbs for CFLs? Know what "1," "3," "5," or "7" means on plastic bottles? If you're the roommate who makes living "green" a priority, this is your category. Show us your efforts to help save the planet and we could be recycling a year of FREE Rent into your bank account (and promising to turn off the lights when we leave a room!).
If you have special roommate qualities that don't fit the categories, or don't want to commit to only one area of roommate greatness, use this entry to submit your video. Get crazy, get creative! But don't just tell us why you're the best roommate - show us - and you could win FREE Rent for a Year.
How Will My Entry Be Judged?
Video entries will be judged with equal weight on originality and creativity, overall "wow" factor, persuasive argument and style and production. Judging will take place in three stages.
- The First Cut:
All entries will be narrowed down to a field of up to 15 finalists from all entries. - America Votes:
Once the up to 15 finalists are selected, America will vote for their favorite roomie online. - Winner Announcement:
A combination of votes from the public (60%) and the Apartments.com judging panel (40%) will narrow the finalists down to five. From those five, the Apartments.com judging panel will select one Grand Prize Winner and four Runner-Up Winners.
What Can I Win?
Grand Prize Package (1)
FREE Rent for a Year
$10,000 cash
Total ARV of Grand Prize is $20,000
Runner-up Prizes (4)
$500 cash
Entry Submission Guidelines
- Entries are accepted between April 2 and May 21, 2012
- Entries must not be more than two minutes in length
- Entries must be submitted from the Apartments.com Roommate of the Year contest website
- No entries will be accepted from alternate entry methods
- Entrants must read and agree to the Official Rules before entering
Your Submitted Videos Must
- Must include footage of you
- Must have express permission from anyone other than you that appears in the video
- Must include a statement within the first 20 seconds indicating that the video is being submitted for the Apartments.com Roommate of the Year contest
- May not include unsuitable or offensive content
- May not contain content that is in violation of or infringes third party intellectual property rights including, but not limited to copyrights, including music copyrights, trademarks, and rights of publicity
- May not contain content to which you do not own all rights, title and interest
Contest Timeline
- Contest Launch: April 2, 2012
- Call for Entries: April 2 - May 21, 2012
- Finalists Announcement: May 29
- Public Voting: May 29 - July 6, 2012
- Winner Announcement: By December 31, 2012
What Are You Waiting For?
Get out the video camera, get creative and get one step closer to winning FREE Rent for a Year plus $10,000 from Apartments.com.