HousingAnywhereReviews 200

I tried to use this to rent out two rooms in my house but decided this wasn't for me. I appreciate the need for safety, both for the person offering and the person looking for accommodations, but I found the concept unusable. It is not possible to make contact via phone or email as all personal information is removed from the messages. It seems from the descriptions that they expect you to first be able to contact each other after the booking has been made. But there is no way I am going to rent out my rooms to people I haven't had a chance to meet and get to know. I also did not agree that rent payment had to go through them. I am sure that anyone having a chance to meet me at my home would know that I am not scamming.

In short, web site seems good, idea may be good, but this is not what I can use.

I believe is one of the best option for exchange students looking for a room, is easy to use, is really safe. I strongly recommend it!

Really cool opportunity for both groups of students going abroad: incoming and outgoing. You can either easily get a room without signing up long-period contracts while being incoming student or rent out your room and earn some extra money without loosing your contract while being abroad. Safe system and easy-to-nagivate platform.

The only downside is that the platform is not well known in some of the places yet so the range of the offered rooms can be smaller.

Housing Anywhere (HA) is by far one of the best methods to find a room if you are studying abroad. It is super easy to use its platform and you are sure that you won't be scamed because they do check every room before allowing it to go public.

Of course the room offer depends on the city you are in/going to, and for how long HA as been there promoting. But it is still very reliable and I would definitely advise people to check it out.

My destination for Erasmus exchange was - honestly - I wild shot. I had no idea what it's like in Slovenia, didn't speak the language - nothing. Moreover I spent the whole summer abroad, thinking very little about what I was gonna do next. And suddenly I found myself a couple of days from the departure with no place to stay once in Ljubljana.
We all hear the same when contacting the landlords - don't we? 'Oh, but you are a student... and a foreigner... and just for a couple of months?... No, no, I don't think so'
Then - thank God I came across HousingAnywhere. Well, number of rooms offered is limited, but those advertising them are ready to give them away quite cheaply and for short term. Also - the company addresses my biggest fear - that the money will just disappear. Owing to the 'safe payment' method you are 100% sure the landlord will not escape with your deposit, leaving you homeless.
Certainly - trustworthy!

I decided to go on exchange this last semester and I wanted to sublet my room to be able to pay with it my rent at my new destination. After browsing for a while I found Housing Anywhere, a website that allowed me to offer my room only to students who had student emails, which made it a lot safer for me to sublet it. Through a feature in their website, I was able to get in contact and chat with various different people interested in my room so I could choose the most suitable person. The good thing about it is that I didn't have to pay for anything, I received money from the tenant and did not have to pay for anything. This gave me the opportunity to to go abroad with my conscious clear that I had left my room in good hands and that when I would get back, I would find my room waiting for me. In the end I had a great exchange program, and there was never any problem with the tenant. I really recommend Housing Anywhere for anybody going on exchange and looking to make some money with it!