Make off-campus housing easier and more transparent — not the hardest part of being a student.
Why we built this.
Boston-area campuses enroll hundreds of thousands of students across 50+ schools. Most of them spend at least one summer trying to find or hand off a sublease — and most of them do it through a Facebook group, a group chat, or a Craigslist post that often turns out to be fake or already taken.
The student-housing market got skipped by every major proptech wave. Zillow is great if you’re looking for a 1-bed in Back Bay with a four-year lease. It’s useless if you need a furnished place from May 15 to August 31, with a roommate who’s subleasing under their master lease, and you have no rental history.
We started Student Spots to build the infrastructure students actually need: .edu-verified accounts, lease-backed listings, signed sublease agreements, and a 32-day floor designed around Massachusetts housing law. No Airbnb-style short-stays. No anonymous Craigslist posts. We don’t hold deposits, period.
We’re launching in Boston first, where the problem is densest. From there, we’ll expand to every metro that has more dorm beds than off-campus spots.
Six principles we hold the team to.
I built the first version of Student Spots after spending three weeks of finals trying to sublease my apartment to someone in a Facebook group. The replies were either bots, people who ghosted, or people my landlord wouldn’t approve. There had to be a better way — so we built it.