Your units, in front of verified students at the campus next door.
Crashmates is a housing and roommate platform that only lets in students with a verified .edu address. We run a page for every US campus. If you own or manage units near one of them, we’ll list them there — free, and we do the work of building the listings.
Why student renters find you here
The problem with student housing leads isn’t volume — it’s that most of them aren’t students.
Verified students, not internet strangers
Every account is a .edu email cross-checked against IPEDS, the Department of Education’s official database of accredited schools. Inquiries come from real, enrolled students at the school you’re near — not the bots and out-of-area tire-kickers that make Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist leads worthless.
A page for their exact campus
We run a dedicated housing page for every one of 3,900+ US campuses. Students looking for housing search their school by name, not a metro area — so your units show up in the place they’re actually looking, next to roommate and sublease listings for the same school.
Students never pay to reach you
There’s no paywall between a student and your listing. Nothing to unlock, no subscription, no “upgrade to message the landlord.” That means the inquiries you get are from students who wanted your unit, not students who happened to have credits left.
How it works
Four steps, and three of them are ours. We built this so it costs you one email, not a new system to learn.
Send us the units
Fill out the form below and reply to our email with whatever you already have — a unit sheet, a PDF, a link to your existing listings. There’s no portal to learn and no data entry on your end.
We build the listings
We write and publish them on your campus page ourselves, matched to how students actually search: per-room where you allow it, with rent, availability, and distance to campus.
Students inquire directly
Interested students contact you through the listing. You get their name, their school, and their message — and you screen and lease exactly the way you already do.
You tell us if it worked
We check in monthly with what your listings produced. If it isn’t generating anything worth your time, you say so and we take them down. No notice period, nothing to cancel.
Tell us what you’ve got
Takes about a minute. We’ll come back with what your campus page looks like and how we’d list your units.
Questions we get
What does it cost?
Nothing right now. Listing your units is free while we build out coverage at your campus, and there’s no card and no contract to get started. We’ll be straight with you about the plan: once listings are reliably producing leases, we intend to charge for featured placement. If and when that happens you’ll hear it from us directly, in advance, and you can keep your free listings or walk — we’re not going to surprise you with an invoice.
Do I need an account?
No. Crashmates accounts require a verified .edu email, which you almost certainly don’t have — and we’re not weakening that check, since it’s the whole reason students trust the platform. So we handle listings for you directly instead. If enough property managers want to manage their own listings, we’ll build a proper landlord portal.
What kind of properties fit?
Anything a college student would rent within a reasonable commute of campus: single-family houses, duplexes, apartment buildings, purpose-built student housing, and individual rooms. Per-room leasing is especially strong here, because a big share of our students are searching for a room plus roommates rather than a whole unit.
Are you going to spam my tenants or sell my data?
No. We use your contact details to talk to you about your listings, and that’s it. We don’t sell contact information, we don’t hand your leads to competitors, and we don’t market to your existing tenants.
How is this different from Apartments.com or Zillow?
Those are general rental marketplaces where student housing is one slice of a much bigger pool, and anyone can inquire. Crashmates is only students, verified at the front door, organized by campus rather than by metro. We’re not trying to replace your listing syndication — we’re the campus-specific channel next to it.
How quickly can you get my units up?
Usually within a few business days of you sending the details, since we write the listings ourselves. If your campus page needs anything built out first, we’ll tell you exactly how long before you commit any time to it.