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50% off with .edu · Verified at signup

Find your first
NYC apartment.

Instant alerts the second a real listing posts near your campus — from StreetEasy, RentHop, Craigslist, and LeaseBreak. No scams. No Facebook Marketplace bait.

Get the student pass

$19.50 for 4 months · One payment · 7-day refund

How it works

From .edu to first apartment.

Most students set up alerts in under 3 minutes and tour their first real listing within a week.

  1. 01

    Sign up with your .edu

    One-tap email verification. No transcripts, no student ID upload. The 50% discount unlocks the second your .edu is verified.

  2. 02

    Set your campus and budget

    Pin your school as a saved location. Pick max rent, bedrooms, and how far you’re willing to walk or commute. Alerts only ping you on listings that actually fit.

  3. 03

    Tour real, vetted listings

    We scrape directly from StreetEasy, RentHop, Craigslist, and LeaseBreak — never DM-only or wire-only posts. Suspicious listings get flagged before they reach you.

Scam safety

Students get scammed the most.

New to NYC, tight move-in date, looking sight-unseen, pressured to wire a deposit fast. That combo is exactly what apartment scammers look for. Here’s how we cut that down.

Forward us anything that feels off.

Got a listing on Facebook Marketplace, a WhatsApp group, or a “landlord” asking for wire before you tour? Forward it to [email protected] and we’ll vet it before you respond.

Student pricing

Half off, forever a student.

Student Pass · .edu verified
$19.50
for 4 months · one paymentnormally $39

About $4.88 a month. No subscription. No auto-renewal.

  • Instant alerts the second a real listing posts
  • StreetEasy, RentHop, Craigslist, LeaseBreak — all in one inbox
  • Commute-time filter (set your campus, NYU, Columbia, etc.)
  • Rent-stabilized filter · DHCR-verified
  • Landlord violation reports before you sign
  • 7-day refund · no questions asked

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Why students use Leaseswap

The unfair advantage your dorm-mates don’t have.

Answers

Student pass, explained.

Anyone with a valid `.edu` email address from a U.S. accredited university or college. That covers undergrads, grad students, postdocs, and most medical/law students. We verify the email at checkout — if your school uses a non-.edu domain (some international programs in NYC do), email [email protected] and we'll add it manually.

Edge case? Email [email protected] — I read every message.

Skip the scams. Start tonight.

One .edu, one $19.50 payment, four months of real listings the moment they post.

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