Fill your units for less than a traditional broker fee.
Student Spots already has students searching for housing near Boston-area campuses. List directly with us and skip the traditional brokerage. It costs $0 to publish, and 5% of total rentonly when a lease signs, taken from the first-month payout.
Why broker fees are changing
Under a recent Massachusetts change, the party who engages a broker is the one responsible for the broker's fee. In practice, that has increasingly meant landlords carry a cost that used to fall on tenants, sometimes as much as a full month's rent per unit. Listing directly with Student Spots is a lower-cost way to reach students who are already looking.
This is general information, not legal advice. Rules can change and depend on your situation, so please confirm details with your own counsel.
An alternative to a traditional brokerage.
Less than a full month
A traditional broker typically charges a month's rent to fill a unit. Student Spots is $0 to publish and 5% of total rent over the lease term when a unit fills, which is well under a month's rent on a typical 12-month lease.
Students already searching
We focus on Boston-area student housing, so your unit reaches renters who are already looking near campus.
You stay in control
You decide who you rent to and on what terms. We help route interested students and handle the paperwork around the agreement.
No cut of your rent
Once a lease is in place, monthly rent flows directly between you and your tenant. Student Spots never takes a piece of ongoing rent.
See what listing direct could save you.
A traditional broker typically charges a full month's rent to fill a unit. Student Spots charges no listing fee and 5% of total rent over the lease term when a unit fills. Move the sliders to estimate the difference across your units.
Estimate only. Based on a traditional broker fee of one month's rent per fill and Student Spots' 5% of total rent commission on a 12-month lease per fill, with no listing fee. The commission is shown again on the listing review step before you publish. This isn't legal or financial advice.
Three steps, no brokerage in the middle.
List your units
Create a landlord account, add your property, and publish each unit with its lease terms: rent, move-in costs, utilities, pets, and lead paint. Publishing is free.
Students apply to you
Your unit reaches students searching near their campus. They message you, can ask you for a live video tour, and send price-and-dates offers you can accept, decline or counter. Calls run in the app, so neither of you needs to share a phone number.
Sign and fill
Accept an offer and Student Spots drafts a Massachusetts residential lease from your listing terms for both sides to review and e-sign. When your tenant’s first-month payment goes through, Student Spots deducts its 5% of total rent commission from that payout.