Two ways in
Mia’s Place is a house-sharing platform built around verified identity. Pick your side below.
House hacking · I have a place
Post once. Add photos, set your filters, write the description. Your listing is searchable to verified members in your city — they find you when their filters match. Every member who can message you has passed Stripe Identity verification. You decide who to talk to.
I’m looking for a place
Browse verified members in your city. Filter by budget, neighborhood, move date, and what matters to you. Send a match request when you find someone you’d actually live with.
Free to browse · Verified by Stripe Identity ($1.50, one time) · Optional Rental Passport ($39, one time) · $39.95/mo to host your listing
House hacking 101
House hacking is the simple idea that your apartment can pay for itself when you split it with someone you trust. List your room or unit on Mia’s Place for $39.95/mo, post photos and your filters, and verified members in your city find you when their search matches. Every applicant comes pre-verified through Stripe Identity — no bots, no flake-outs.
Coming soon: shared billing tools so you never chase a roommate for rent again.
Verified
Backgrounds + references via Rental Passport
Society Live
In-platform community network
Set up
In under 10 minutes
Real meetups
Mia’s Place socials in your city
Browse the marketplace
Public previews show neighborhood, rent range, and a watermarked photo. Sign up to see the exact address, full photos, and contact the poster.
The Mia’s Place marketplace
Every card is a real apartment that a verified member saved from Zillow, Apartments.com, Craigslist — anywhere. No algorithm, no ranking. You see what they see.
Open the marketplace →How it works
No cold-call screening, no group-chat back-and-forth. Verified members search by city, budget, move date, and lifestyle preferences — they see your listing when their filters match. No algorithmic ranking, no scoring.
Tell us about you, your space (or what you’re looking for), and what makes a good housemate. Add photos. Set your filters. About 10 minutes.
Every member you can talk to has passed Stripe Identity verification. The Rental Passport — verified ID, background check, employment, references — is optional and surfaces on the profile when a member opts in.
Chat inside the platform. When you’re both comfortable, meet up at one of our Mia’s Place socials before signing anything.
We looked at every roommate-matching service in the market. Then we built the opposite of what was broken.
Somewhere between rising rents and the internet, finding a trustworthy roommate became a second job. Here’s what we’re fixing.
In most US cities, a one-bedroom eats more than half of a typical paycheck. A roommate isn’t a compromise — it’s how renting actually works now.
Bots. Ghost listings. Scammers asking for a deposit before you’ve even seen the unit. The biggest name in the category was sued by the FTC for false advertising in 2023.
The person on the other side of your couch has your keys, your schedule, and their name next to yours on a lease. That can’t start with a sketchy DM.
A quick look at Mia’s Place Live — 16 seconds.
Each month, Mia’s Place hosts in-person meetups in cities where our members are gathering. No swipes, no profiles-only mode — just real conversation with about twenty other renters in your area who are also looking. A local rental-process host is there if you want to ask questions. Drinks are usually involved.
It turns out meeting someone before you sign a lease with them is a pretty good idea.
Joining and creating a profile is free. Identity verification is $1.50, one time, charged by Stripe (we don’t mark it up). Optional add-ons like a Rental Passport (background, credit, employment, references) run $39, one time, and are up to you.
We’re live in 50 US cities across the country. Pick yours from the city selector at the top of the page and we’ll show you verified members in your area. Our brokerage representation track is currently Pennsylvania-only; in other markets you self-source the apartment and we provide the verified-roommate matching.
You can create a profile and browse verified members without verifying. You just can’t send a request or chat until you do — so everyone you interact with is a real person, and so are you.
We’re TCS Group, a rental-focused company. We’ve been placing renters for years and we built Mia’s Place — short for My Ideal Apartment — because we kept watching great apartments fall through because one person couldn’t swing rent alone.
takes about 10 minutes ✿