Where Find My Place Operates: Every Market and University We Cover (2026)

Find My Place is a student-housing platform available to renters at campuses across the United States, and it is free for students to search. The platform indexes more than 8,200 properties and carries verified student reviews on over 8,100 of them, with the deepest concentrations around schools like BYU in Provo, Utah and Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio.

Colton Hibbert
Colton Hibbert

Published July 18, 2026

5 min read

Reviewed by FMP Data Team

Find My Place is a student-housing platform available to renters at campuses across the United States, and it is free for students to search. The platform indexes more than 8,200 properties and carries verified student reviews on over 8,100 of them, with the deepest concentrations around schools like Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (160-plus rentals mapped to campus) and Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (98 listings). More than 225,000 students have used it to figure out where to live, and coverage keeps deepening across more campuses every semester.


Key Takeaways

  • Nationwide by design. Find My Place serves student renters at campuses across the U.S., and searching is free for students, always.
  • 8,200+ properties are indexed on the platform, with verified reviews on more than 8,100 of them.
  • Provo, Utah is the single densest market right now: 112 verified places citywide and 160 rentals mapped to BYU alone.
  • Columbus, Ohio shows how fast density builds in a big metro. Ohio State packs roughly 61,369 students into one campus, and 98 listings already sit around it.
  • Some individual complexes carry hundreds of reviews. Glenwood Apartments in Provo sits at 459, which is the kind of sample size that makes a rating mean something.
  • Want to check your school? The location directory lists all 50 states plus D.C. (yes, even the small ones) as the place to start.

How Find My Place works for students, no matter the campus

Find My Place is a nationwide platform where students search, review, and trade off-campus housing near their school. You browse real listings with per-bedroom pricing, read reviews left by people who actually lived there, and, if your plans change, buy or sell a housing contract through the subleasing marketplace. There are no booking fees passed to renters. It is $0 for students, and that has never had an asterisk.

The reach is national, but the depth is not identical everywhere, and that is the honest part. Some campuses have hundreds of reviewed properties built up over years. Others are earlier in that curve, with listings and reviews being added as more students and landlords join. The context here is huge: NCES counted about 19.28 million undergraduates enrolled in fall 2024, and nearly all of them need somewhere to live off campus at some point. Find My Place is built to serve that whole population, campus by campus.


A handful of markets stand out right now for sheer inventory and review volume. Treat these as flagship examples of what deep density looks like, not the edge of where the platform works.

Provo, Utah leads by a wide margin. The city has 112 verified places on Find My Place, and 160 rentals map specifically to BYU. Review counts there run deep, too: Alpine Village has 183 reviews, King Henry has 178, and Raintree has 142. Just north in Orem, The Green on Campus Drive alone carries 337 reviews and Wolverine Crossing carries 138 near Utah Valley University. Salt Lake City is on the map as well, where Liberty Square has racked up 234.

Columbus, Ohio is the clearest example of a large metro filling in fast. There are 98 listings around Ohio State right now, from big purpose-built buildings like Uncommon Columbus and StateHouse Varsity to the small brick houses lining East 13th and Chittenden. Seven different Columbus schools pull from that same inventory, which is why the numbers there keep climbing.


Flagship universities students search most

These are the schools with the most activity on Find My Place today. Each one stands on its own as an example of how the platform builds up around a campus.

Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)

BYU is the deepest single campus on Find My Place, with 160 rentals mapped to it. Provo runs on BYU's calendar, so the best contracted complexes fill their waitlists before Christmas for the following fall. That pressure is exactly why the review history matters here. You can compare off-campus housing near BYU by social scene, management responsiveness, and quality before you commit to a contract you cannot easily leave.

Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

Ohio State is one of the largest single campuses in the country at roughly 61,369 students, and 98 listings currently sit around it. The University District along North High Street is the dense, walkable core where most off-campus units cluster within a ten- to fifteen-minute walk of class. Leases here look different from Provo's, and the listings reflect that: whole-unit houses and larger buildings rather than per-person contracted complexes.

More campuses gaining density

Beyond the two flagships, students search heavily around Utah State University in Logan, BYU-Idaho in Rexburg, Utah Valley University in Orem, and Texas A&M in the Bryan-College Station area. Those markets already have live listings and reviews, and the count keeps growing as more students weigh in. Coverage keeps deepening across more campuses, so a school with a handful of reviewed properties today can look very different a year from now.


How listings and reviews get verified

Every review on Find My Place is tied to a real lease, which is the whole point. This is not a comment box where anyone can drop a star rating on a place they walked past once. Reviews come from students who actually lived in the unit, and each property gets scored on three things students actually argue about: social scene, management, and quality. The apartment reviews database spans more than 8,100 properties, and the ones with hundreds of reviews (Glenwood's 459, for instance) give you a signal you can trust instead of a vibe.

Listings also carry per-bedroom pricing, not a vague "starting at" number for a whole unit. That sounds small. It is not. When you split a place with three roommates, knowing your real cost per bedroom is the difference between a budget that works and a September surprise.


How to check your campus on Find My Place

Search your school or city directly, or browse the full location directory, which lists all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Pick your state, then your city or university, and you land on a page with the verified listings and reviews available there. If your campus is early in building review density, leaving a review on the place you live is the fastest way to help the next student. That is how Find My Place reached 225,000-plus students in the first place, and you can read the full story on the about page.


Frequently Asked Questions

Is Find My Place available at my university?

Yes, the platform is built for students nationwide, so you can search your campus from anywhere in the country. Start with the location directory, which covers all 50 states and D.C. Some schools already have hundreds of reviewed properties, while others are earlier in building that depth. Either way, the search works, and adding a review helps fill in the gaps for your campus.

How many listings and properties does Find My Place have?

More than 8,200 properties are indexed on the platform, with verified student reviews on over 8,100 of them. Individual markets vary a lot: Provo alone has 112 verified places, and Columbus has 98 around Ohio State. New listings and reviews get added continuously as students and landlords join.

Which markets have the most listings on Find My Place right now?

Provo, Utah is the deepest, with 112 verified places citywide and 160 rentals mapped to BYU. Orem and Salt Lake City are strong in Utah too. Columbus, Ohio is the standout large metro, with 98 listings around Ohio State. These are the densest examples today, not a limit on where you can search.

Are the reviews on Find My Place real?

They are tied to real leases from students who actually lived in the unit. Each property is rated on social scene, management, and quality, and popular complexes carry serious sample sizes. Glenwood Apartments in Provo has 459 reviews, and The Green on Campus Drive in Orem has 337. That volume is what keeps a single grumpy review from skewing the whole picture.

Is Find My Place free for students?

Completely. Searching listings, reading reviews, and buying or selling a housing contract cost students nothing, and there are no booking fees baked into your rent. It started as a class project built by students who were tired of getting burned, and free-for-students has been the rule since day one.

Colton Hibbert
Colton Hibbert

Find My Place — By Students, For Students

We're students and recent grads who've been through the housing grind. We built Find My Place because apartment hunting near a university is harder than it needs to be. Every guide we write is based on real experience — not a landlord's marketing copy.

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