Don’t pay for an empty room.
Going abroad, interning, or graduating early? Hand your room to a verified student for the semester — and stop eating rent on a place you’re not even in. Need somewhere for one term? Take a verified student’s room. No year-long lease. No Craigslist roulette. Free.
Two sides, one match.
Leaving →
Sublet your room
Studying abroad, on a co-op, interning, or graduating mid-lease? Post your room in minutes. Verified students at your school see it instantly — so whoever takes it isn’t a stranger, it’s a classmate.
Post my sublease →← Arriving
Find a semester place
Coming to campus for a term — exchange, transfer, internship, or your housing fell through? Browse subleases posted by verified students at your school. Move in for a semester without signing a year.
Browse subleases →How a sublet works.
Step 01
Verify your .edu
Sign up with your school email. We send a magic link, then cross-check the email’s domain against IPEDS — the federal database of accredited US colleges — so the only people in here are verified students at real schools, not bots or randos. About 30 seconds.
Step 02
Post it, or find it
Leaving for the semester? Post your room — rent, dates, photos, the works — in a few minutes. Need a place for a term? Browse subleases posted by verified students at your school and message the ones that fit.
Step 03
Match, message, move in
Chat opens between two verified students at the same campus. Work out the dates, see the place, hand off the keys. You spend one credit to send the first message — then the whole conversation is free for both of you. No subscription.
Why not just Facebook?
Because the campus sublet group is a swamp of fake listings, scammers asking for a deposit over Venmo, and randos who don’t even go to your school. You’re handing over your room — or moving into someone else’s — for months. That shouldn’t run on trust-me-bro.
- Everyone’s verified. Real .edu, cross-checked against the federal IPEDS database — every member is tied to an accredited US school, not a stranger off Craigslist.
- Same campus, same neighborhood. Subleases surface to verified students at your school first — the people most likely to actually need a semester near campus.
- No year-long lease. Subletting is built for the gap — a term, a summer, a quarter. Take a room without signing twelve months.
- It’s free. No credits, no subscription, no “upgrade to message.” Post it or find it for nothing.
Made for the semester gap.
Abroad
Studying abroad
A semester in Madrid shouldn’t cost you a semester of rent in your college town. Fill your room while you’re gone.
Co-op
Internship or co-op
Landed a spring internship in another city? Sublet your room to a verified classmate instead of paying double rent.
Grad
Graduating early
Done in December but on the lease through May? Hand it off to a student who actually needs it.
Summer
Summer term
Heading home for the summer, or coming to campus just for it? Summer sublets are the easiest match on Crashmates.
Sublet questions.
Is subletting on Crashmates free?
Posting a sublease, browsing subleases, and matching are all free. You only spend a credit to send the first message in a new conversation — after that the whole conversation is free for both of you. No subscription, no card to sign up.
Is the person taking (or giving up) the room actually verified?
Every account is tied to a working .edu email at a real, accredited US college — we cross-check the domain against IPEDS (the federal school database) before they can post or message. That keeps out bots, brokers, and people who don’t even go to your school. We verify the school, not your transcripts — like anywhere, still meet in public, still video-chat before signing.
How long can a sublet be?
However long you need — a single semester, a summer, a quarter, or a few months. You set the start and end dates when you post; searchers filter by the dates that fit them.
What about my lease and my landlord?
Check your lease first — some leases require your landlord’s sign-off before you can sublet. Crashmates connects you with a verified student and gives you a place to talk; you and they handle the actual sublease agreement and any landlord approval.
I’m not leaving for a whole semester — can I still post?
Absolutely. Subleases work for any gap. And if you’re leaving the lease entirely — transferring, graduating, moving out for good — post a lease takeover instead, so the next student takes over the lease itself.
I’m coming to a campus I don’t go to — can I find a sublet there?
If you have a .edu from an accredited US school you can verify and browse. Exchange students, transfers, and interns coming to a campus for a term are exactly who semester subleases are for.
Fill the room. Free.
Verify your .edu, post your sublease or find a semester place, and match with verified students at your school. No year lease. No bots. No cost.
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