For off-campus housing & student services offices
A documented sublease you can point students to.
Your students hand off leases every summer, every study abroad semester, and every internship. Most of those deals live in a group chat. Avouch turns one into a real agreement both students sign, with the place documented in timestamped photos and rent that moves on schedule. Free to your office, and nothing to set up.
Nothing is asked of your office
No contract, no integration, no student records, no staff time. Offices tell us they are not permitted to be involved in the specifics of an exchange between two students. This is built for exactly that constraint: your office points, and Avouch handles the rest between the two of them.
It starts after the match
A listings board, a Facebook group, a newsletter post: whatever you already use to help students find each other keeps working exactly as it does now. Avouch picks up at the part nobody covers, once two students have already agreed.
The template, finished
Many offices already post a blank sublease PDF, which is the right instinct. A PDF cannot fill itself in, get signed by both people, or stay on file. This is that same agreement, completed and e-signed, with a copy in both students' inboxes.
Documentation, not legal advice
The agreement is standardized, so neither student is drafting terms from scratch. Avouch is not a law firm and does not give legal advice; it produces a record two students both signed and a dated photo record of the unit.
If the buildings near you run official lease takeovers
Many now do, and that process should stay exactly where it is: the leasing office screens the incoming student and re-papers the lease. What it does not cover is the arrangement between the two students around it, a split month of rent, a credit on the lease one of them forgets to mention, or what condition the place was in at the handoff. Avouch documents that part, alongside whatever the building already does, which is usually the part that comes back to your office as a complaint.
What a student actually does
Four steps, about five minutes, after they have already found each other.
Answer a few questions
The address, the dates, and the rent. Avouch turns your answers into the sublease agreement.
Sign it
You sign first. Then the other person signs.
Send them the link
They open it, read it, and sign. Sent it to more than one person? The first to sign gets the place and the other links stop working.
Rent comes to you
In 24 states, rent is taken from their bank and sent to yours every month, automatically. Move-in photos are saved with the agreement.
Safe to point students to
Real e-signatures
Executed under the federal ESIGN Act and state UETA, with a certificate of completion both students keep.
We never hold money
Rent moves through Stripe, a licensed payments company, straight between the two students. No deposits, no escrow, nothing resting with us.
Not a listings site
No listings, no roommate matching, no browsing. Nothing that competes with a housing board your office already runs.
Nothing to sign up, nothing up front
One flat fee, paid only by the student handing off their place, and only once someone actually takes it.
The whole ask is a link
If subletting is something your students deal with and this looks useful to them, a line on your off-campus housing page is everything we are asking for. Nothing is charged unless a student actually completes a handoff, and fees only exist on months money actually moves: $2.50 a side, flat, never a percentage of the rent. If it is not useful, we would genuinely rather hear that.
Your students are handing off leases either way. This is the version with an agreement behind it.
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