HousingAnywhere

I found my house using Housing Anywhere. It was fast, convenient, and secure. I'd recommend it to any student.

One problem is that the platform has a shortage of listings compared to the demand of people searching. (However, that's less of an issue with Housing Anywhere and more so an issue of a student population that is outgrowing the city). I hope more and more people will make their rooms available on Housing Anywhere so that more and more students can find housing more easily.

Housing Anywhere is a good solution for students looking for the perfect room, especially abroad. The platform is user-friendly and intuitive
Sometimes landlords don't update the announcements. That's the only flaw

The payment was made and money was deducted from my account, but the status of my request on the site was still waiting for payment. I lost the studio... and after two months I was able to get my money back after lots of follow up. They didn't even apologize! Absolutely scammer!

Horrible experience - Took 5 weeks to contact me after they assured me 2 - 5 business days to process a refund for a booking cancellation request
Was emailed once by the so-called financial team and then told they had given my 1800€ away to the advertiser despite never staying there. Beware: they do not care one bit about contract terms and will scam you
AVOID and save your money

The people ar ehighly repsonsive but nothing can happen. They literally ask you to pay and then no transfer it to the landlord. In my case, my rent and deposit was debited wrongly twice and Housing anywhere couldnt even help in this case by informing the landlord. They just get angry and cut your call. Dont fall in this trap. I feel ashamed that I paid money to housing anywhere for their services.

When we got there it didn't take long to see that the building wasn't in a good condition (there was a lot of rubbish inside big plastic bags next to the front door). When we stepped into the apartment, the floor was so dirty it was sticky (not only in the common areas, but also in the room that was supposed to be mine and theoretically had been cleaned that same afternoon). The room wasn't as the pictures showed, there wasn't even the desk that the pictures showed, and not only was the floor dirty, but also the walls and the door. The bathroom had mold on different surfaces and there's poor water pressure. The kitchen was disgusting, it was messy, and so dirty that there were flies and other insects all over the room.
The man that I was in touch with from the company blocked me, and didn't take responsibility of the situation.

This is the best platform to use when you are a student and you go abroad, it is safe and easy to use the best part is that there is no scam. They save your money until you see that it is what you paid for. I recommend it to everybody

The site provides a professional and secure way to rent a room for students. It has a secure system for students to find a place in a new country. They have rooms all around the world, make the search easier.

Finding housing in Stockholm, Sweden could be very challenging. Housing Anywhere quire beautifully addresses this gap and facilitates students like me to find exchange in the exchange country. I was really satisfies with the quality of the process and the room quality because usually on other housing platforms, you are not guaranteed about the quality of the room. Housing anywhere takes care of this problem as the rent is only transferred to the landlord once the renter of the room gives a thumbs up. One thing that could be improved is to increase the supply of rooms on the platform so there are more options to choose from.

I had to move in to Rotterdam in the beginning of July 2016 and I was having big troubles finding a room since I was not still in town. Housing Anywhere was a great solution for my issue since I was very scared of online scams and traps. It took me a bit to find the apartment I wanted but at the end everything worked fine, I made my deposit and I got to the house, which was totally great and everything since then worked perfectly. I would totally recommend the platform.

I think HousingAnywhere provides a great service! Personally it is a great platform for students like me who want to go on internship and want to rent or find their room temporarily. I also got really surprised how well publishing a room was thought through and how safe it makes me feel knowing if I rent a room I can always get my money back if it was not what I was advertised.

The platform is very easy to use and really user friendly. I appreciated the fact that my money was within the platform until my ok when I came to my new room. So the service is really safely, but the the landlords here are really trusted too. I don't wanna be scamed and the platform helped me a lot.

This webpage has been really helpful for finding an apartment in Munich!
The city is packed with people, and reasonable apartment offers are hard to find. I tried different means to find an apartment, but HousingAnywhere has been the most secure and the most user friendly page!

Housinganywhere demands money for booking without doing anything they validate scammers as trust worthy. I have been scammed by a partner they have and they said it is a trusted partner. When I came back to them they did not say anything and could not return my money back.

While the service members were nice I feel that the properties in Valencia were substandard. I did not get the first apartment they showed me was a replacement for a covid case in the first apartment and it was substandard. I could not stay there for an hour, much less a night. I paid about $700 waiting for one that they promised would be perfect and it was a waiting room from a lawyers' office with cheap flooring and lawyers books. I lost more than $700 with this horrible service. DO NOT USE.

I am VERY frustrated with this site because they make you pay a subscription to even INQUIRE about a potential listing. I did because I was very interested in a few listings. Each agent I listed said that the place was going to be resigned and the current tenant was going to review their lease. Why am I paying a subscription to inquire over listings that aren't available! I feel genuinely scammed and upset.

These guys are the worst. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE, the listings are really edited or don't represent the current state of the place, and in any case, they use any excuse to not refund your money in favor of the landlord. I just lost 800 Euros in just a day. The 48-hour protection is BS, to be honest. If you happen to read this before you book, for your own good, stop.

Just to make sure, I think they have multiple employees responding to you calling themselves Anna or it may be a bot, rendering no help at all whatsoever.

Forewarned forearmed. STAY SAFE PEOPLE, DONT GET ROBBED.

This was my worst experiment about renting a room. I had to pay way too much for the cleaning services and compared to the money nothing actually happened. My room and even the shared areas were disgusting and everytime I wanted a personal appointment to talk about something which I am bothered I always got refused. I do not feel like I got some kind of help in anything and they were a 100% unpersonal because they did not show me the house and they did not apear in my departure as well. Only 1 time I saw somebody when I collected my keys...
I do not recommend to anyone!

Oh, and I almost forget to mention that I asked a lot of time to extend my staying and in the end they said they did not get anything from their platform and I had to leave my room in the middle of the month and go to a hostel while I was paying for the whole month!

I had a terrible experience booking a room in Lisbon for one month. The host tried to make me sign a contract for two months and pay double the price. When I called customer service, they friendly informed me that I could ask for a refund. However, they stopped replying to me. After more than a month, they claimed I wasn't eligible for a refund. You can see from the screenshot that I asked for a refund on the 11th of January, and the policy outcome arrived on the 12th of February. In the meantime, I had to spend a lot of money living in a hostel while waiting for a reply and my money back. I called them every two days for an update, but they kept my money while the host was paid for this fraud.

Very good platform, super efficient. With Housing Anywhere, I could rent my room in Lille before leaving for a year in Finland. It allowed me to have enough money to pay for my rent in Finland, and I left without worries, Housing Anywhere being a sort of "guarantee", that I needed because I couldn't give my room to a random student for a year. Few days after I posted my ad, I already had a few messages of people interested.

PLEASE DO NOT USE THEM!

Recently, I booked an apartment in Berlin from another scam company called "Under Ground" through the HousingAnywhere platform. The move-in day came, and I did not get the key from the landlord (Urban Ground). They ghosted me, and stopped responding my emails.
I then contacted HousingAnywhere for a refund and they ignored. I told them the landlord literally did not give me the keys and didnt allow me to enter the apartment. He also wasn't responding my emails.
HousingAnywhere did then what it has always done. They ignored me and they now also don't answer me :D

Housinganywhere didn't return any deservered refund to me and 95% of their advertisements are from Italian real-estate agents (Stefano & Teresa & Garbiela). The 3 persons work together in an office in "ul. Dietla 57, Krakow, Poland" while Stefano is the boss. This is a terrible agent who would steal your money and would make lease agreements that include ridiculous points that guarantee they earn maximum amount of money from you in all situations, and he doesn't respect any appointments as he can be late for any appointment with 6 or more hours. He threatens everyone who tries to reject such apartments after visiting them by law or going against GDPR and he doesn't return deserved refunds in such cases. He is the rudest impolite person I've ever seen in my life. Please serve your self and avoid these thiefs.

Easy to use, safe payments are organized, the service is based on a direct exchange between students or individual, more than between estate agencies.