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HousingAnywhere has a rating of 1.8 stars from 180 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about HousingAnywhere most frequently mention customer service, bad experience, and cancellation policy problems. HousingAnywhere ranks 4th among Student Travel sites.
This company responds to reviews on average within 6 days
So far so good. Found my flat using this platforms. The 48 hrs guarantee period is higher than what other websites offer.
Absolutely disgusting platform, supporting scammer landlords. I moved in a totally disgusting apartment unlike it was shown on the pictures, I paid a large deposit so I had no choice but stay there, after I cleaned this outrageously disgusting apartment and moved out the landlord even blamed me of poor conditions of the apartment and refused to pay back the large deposit, HousingAnywhere did absolutely nothing to protect me even after contacting them several times. Didn't even take down the scammers account even thou another people also complain publicly.
Scam service. Bait and switch. The apartment they advertised was fake. Staged nice for photos. After the 2000 euro was paid, the apartment looked completely different. Old, dirty and ripped bed, toilet not working, power outages daily, fridge power went out randomly so food went rotten. No air conditioning in bedroom, air unit in main room broken and works randomly. There were no utensils, not even a bottle or can opener. No proper cooking items. Not even salt or letter. No dish rags. The microwave blows any power in apartment.
Nice furnishings in photos were all missing, no coffee maker as shown in photos. No carpet. Bed / pillow coverings. The wash machine does not work. The toilet flush handle is broken.
The building entrance is dirty and not safe. The main door is always open in a busy street.
If you are a non smoker, you should know the apartment door is located right in front of the buildings smoking area. Chairs and ashtrays around the apartment entrance door. See TikTok video.
HousingAnywhere misrepresents apartments. Once they get your commission, their service or communication stops. The are hyenas.
Stay away. Read the multiple poor ratings on legitimate websites.
Payment methods on housinganywhere.com discriminates against residents in Portugal. They have bank payments for Poland, Germany, Austria, Netherlands etc.but not for Portugal. They insist on credit cards. My credit card is maxed out because I used it for my first months rent. I don't have time to pay the card down to use it for the deposit.(It take 5-10 days for payment to post on credit card) I move in in 3 days. I have asked the landlord if I my make a direct deposit, but have not heard back from her yet. They have also removed SEPA from their service. None of their payment methods work for me. It has been extremely hard to find a way to make first months rent payment. Come on housinganywhere add debit cards.we live in the computer age.
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.
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The international student housing platform for exchange and internship students
