"People are open to it. They’re Ubering. They’re co-working. This niche of co-living is here to stay."

For Rob Buscemi, 32, the price was right for living with a total stranger.

At $1,340 a month, Buscemi, a mortgage broker, rents his own bedroom but shares the rest of his apartment in downtown Miami with an accountant, a woman who uses a shared work space in the same building for her business.

Buscemi moved two months ago to X-Miami, where each apartment unit can house two to three people, with rents starting at $1,300 a month. Residents can rent new apartments furnished or unfurnished. People who want to live alone can expect rents to start at $1,600.

Read more at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel