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About Student Spots

Built by students,
for students.

Student Spots is the housing marketplace we wished existed when we were trying to find a sublet from a Facebook group at midnight before finals.

Our mission

Make off-campus housing the easiest, safest part of being a student — not the hardest.

Our story

Why we built this.

Boston has more than 250,000 college 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 60% of the time turns out to be fake.

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: verified school emails, lease-backed listings, signed sublease agreements, and a 32-day floor that keeps everything in compliance with Massachusetts housing law. No Airbnb-style short-stays. No anonymous Craigslist posts. No deposits we hold ransom.

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.

What we believe

Six principles we hold the team to.

Trust by default
Every listing is from a verified student. Every sublease is signed. We don’t ship features that erode that floor.
Compliance first, growth second
Massachusetts has strict rules around deposits, fair housing, and short-term rentals. We’d rather move slower than ship something that hurts a student.
Transparent on day one
Pricing is on the homepage. Fees are on the listing. Nothing happens to your money you didn’t see at checkout.
Students-only, on purpose
A .edu address is the cheapest, strongest filter against scammers. We’ll keep it that way until something better exists.
Real humans on the team
Replies in hours, not days. We’re small, on purpose, so the same people who built the product can answer your email.
No dark patterns
No surprise charges, no hidden auto-renewals, no “press X to keep your account.” You can leave whenever you want.

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.

J
Jack Blumsack
Founder, Student Spots
Email Jack
Student Spots is based in Boston. Reach the team anytime at contact@studentspots.com or via contact page.

Help us build it.

If you're a student looking to find or hand off a place — or just curious how we're putting this together — we'd love to hear from you.

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