MIT Off-campus Listings
Who can use the resources of the MIT Off-Campus Housing Service
The MIT Off-Campus Housing Service is available to all members of the MIT community, including students, alumni, staff, faculty, and their spouses. You must have a web certificate to access listings on this site. If you don’t, stop by the MIT Off-Campus Housing Service headquarters in W59-200 to review listings and other resources.
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MIT Off-Campus Housing Service
The MIT Off-Campus Housing (OCH) Service staff has deep knowledge of the local housing market and can help graduate students and members of the MIT community find a convenient roommate situation or an independent apartment. OCH works with a large and diverse list of rental properties, from MIT off-campus properties to locally owned units offered by real estate agencies that have worked with the Institute for years.
MIT off-campus properties
MIT owns a number of rental properties that it offers to graduate students and other members of the MIT community at current market rates. These units are handled by a professional property management company. Although the majority of vacancies occur in roommate situations, apartments also come available each year. These units are identified in the listings as “MIT Off Campus.”
Rent Monkey
Maintained by MIT students for MIT students, Rent Monkey offers current listings of rentals and sublets and tracks past rents paid for units. Students contact landlords directly, avoiding excessive realtor fees. Rent Monkey is accessible only with Institute web certificates.
Real estate agencies
Renting an apartment through a real estate agency is your most expensive option. Realtors are agents who are licensed by the state, and they usually charge one month’s rent as a finder’s fee. The benefit to working with real estate professionals is that they have the contacts and the knowledge to locate what you’re looking for quickly and efficiently.
Online resources
If you don’t find what you’re looking for in the listings above, try one of these websites.
What is a web certificate and why do I need one to access the listings?
To view the online listings, you must have access to the secure regions of MIT’s cyber network. A security clearance called a “web certificate” is necessary to view these listings. Web certificates require an MIT ID number. As soon as you arrange for an MIT ID and an MIT email account from your academic department, you can download web certificates. New employees, post-docs, and visiting faculty/researchers do not receive their MIT ID numbers until their appointments begin, so they will not be able to access the online listings until they arrive in Cambridge.
Disclaimer
The MIT Housing Office makes information available about off-campus housing opportunities for the convenience of the MIT community. This allows individuals and entities outside the MIT Housing Office to provide information to the MIT community about the availability of off-campus housing that is not affiliated with MIT. The Institute does not verify the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the information listed on this website, nor does it warrant, represent, or in any manner suggest, by implication or otherwise, the adequacy, habitability, or suitability of any of the properties listed on this website.
Use of the off-campus housing resources provided on this website constitutes the user's agreement that MIT is not liable for any damages, injuries, or other liabilities whatsoever arising from any errors or omissions made in the compilation and/or posting of the information on this website or arising from any actions taken or not taken by users of this website or others after receiving information from this website, or arising from any occupancy, lease, purchase, or use of any of the properties listed on this website. All negotiations and agreements relating to occupancy, lease, use, purchase, or other arrangements with regard to properties listed on this website are matters between the third party whose property is involved and the potential occupant, tenant, user, or purchaser of the property. MIT has no involvement in such matters.
Comments or questions about this site should be addressed to general@mit.edu.