apartment shopping sucks.
we made it suck less.

how this whole thing started.

1. the setup

   too many bad apartments

   colton and his friends had spent the last few years dealing with apartments that were not what they signed up for. hidden contract fees. website photos that did not match what they walked into. management that did not answer the phone. a lot they did not know about their apartments until they were already living in them.

2. the spark

   a two-week class project

   then they ended up in an entrepreneurship class together, placed in the same group for a two-week project. and somewhere in that classroom, they all landed on the same thought: why isn't there a rate my professors for apartments?

3. the build

   rate my place → find my place

   so they built it. called it rate my place. (now find my place. same idea, better name.) the plan was to finish the assignment, get the grade, and forget about it. but the validation during those two weeks was too good to ignore. so colton and his friends figured they should actually build the thing.

4. today

   225,000+ students later

   a few years later, 225,000+ students have used find my place across 10+ college markets to figure out where to live. and counting. most of them found us the same way: another student told them. a roommate, a friend, someone in their group chat who left a review and said 'i wish someone had told me sooner.' that's the whole thing. students telling students the truth.

why we keep doing this.

finding an apartment shouldn’t feel like a part-time job, or a gamble. too many students sign leases based on a tour, a few photos, and a leasing agent who really wants the commission. then they move in and find out what nobody told them.

we’re here to fix that.