What Is Find My Place? A Guide for College Housing Teams

Find My Place is a free housing platform built by students, for students. It pulls every rental near a campus into one place — apartment complexes, sublets, and private rooms — layers on honest reviews from people who actually lived there, and lets students buy or sell housing contracts when plans change. Since launching, it's helped more than 225,000 students across 10+ college markets figure out where to live, and it costs students nothing.

If you work in university housing, here's why that matters in one sentence: your students are already piecing their off-campus search together from Facebook groups, group chats, and a dozen leasing sites that contradict each other. Find My Place is the one place that pulls it together — and gives them real information before they sign.

Where It Came From

Find My Place started as a two-week entrepreneurship class project. A group of students were tired of apartments that didn't match the photos, contract fees nobody mentioned upfront, and management that wouldn't pick up the phone. The idea was simple: a Rate My Professors, but for apartments. They built it, the early response was too strong to ignore, and they kept going.

That origin still shapes the product. The people building it have signed the bad lease, paid the buyout fee, and been ghosted by a leasing office. They're not guessing at what students need.

What Students Actually Do on It

Three things, all in one place:

What Makes It Different

Plenty of sites list apartments. A few things set Find My Place apart for your students:

Why It Matters to Your Office

You don't control the off-campus market, but you field the fallout from it — the students who signed something sight-unseen, the ones scrambling to get out of a lease before an internship, the parents calling to ask if a complex is safe. Find My Place gives you a vetted resource to point those students toward, instead of sending them back into the Facebook-group wilderness.

It also quietly helps your numbers. When students can offload a contract they can't keep, fewer beds sit empty and fewer students default. When they can read honest reviews before signing, fewer of them end up in a unit that's a bad fit — which means fewer mid-year crises landing on your desk.

The Basics

Pointing Your Students to It

The easiest first step is to share the link. Add Find My Place to your off-campus housing resources, mention it at move-in and move-out, or point students to it when they ask the question you've heard a hundred times: "how do I find a decent place near campus?" If you'd like something more tailored — a page built around your school's complexes, neighborhoods, and contract calendar — that's where a university partnership comes in.