Rooms · Apartments · Sublets — rented safely

Rent your next roomwithout the fear.

Verified people, every listing screened, and no landlord gets paid until you’re in — whether you’re finding a place or filling one.

Reputation Passport

Your trust, made portable

One score from your verification, two-way reviews, and completed stays. Share it with a private link, even off Sharelet. The identity layer for shared housing.

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Exceptional

L3 · Background check

Top 5% of members

Verification
L3 · Background check
Host reviews
4.9 (12)
Completed stays
7
Member since
2024

Every host verified · no landlord paid until you’re in · every listing scam-screened.Now launching in Boston & Florida.

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Wipe away the fear.

The same room, two ways. Drag the handle and watch the scam turn into a place you can actually trust.

On Sharelet

Sunny room · East Boston

$1,200 / mo · move-in ready

ID-verified hostDeposit frozen, not sentVerified video tourScam-screened · low risk
The old way

R00M 4 RENT · CHEAP!!

$1,200 · WIRE DEPOSIT TODAY

Anonymous “landlord”Zelle the deposit nowStock photo, no tourScam Shield: HIGH RISK

How it works

Three steps to a safe move

  1. 1

    Verify once

    Confirm your ID with a live selfie (a background check too, if you want). You get a Trust Passport that proves you're real — yours to carry anywhere.

  2. 2

    Match & agree

    Browse scam-screened, verified listings, message the host, and agree on the terms up front. No off-platform pressure, no surprises.

  3. 3

    Move in, protected

    Your first month is frozen until you confirm you're in, and rent runs in-app with receipts. Not as promised in the first 48 hours? Report it with photos and your held first month comes back in full.

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Good to know

Questions? Answered.

Does it cost anything to look?

No. Browsing, messaging and applying are free. And once you move in, you pay your rent and nothing on top — no fee for paying rent, no card surcharge, ever. The only things you'd ever pay for are optional: a membership if you want one, and a protection fee if a deposit goes into a protected account.

Who holds my deposit?

Where we offer a protected deposit, it's locked with our payment provider for the whole stay: the host can't withdraw it and Sharelet never holds it — only the terms release it. At move-out it comes back to you, minus any itemized, photo-evidenced deductions, and if the host goes quiet it returns to you automatically. Some states, Massachusetts among them, require deposits to sit in a specific kind of local account we can't provide, so we don't take one there — your first month is still frozen until you've moved in, which is the protection that matters most anyway.

How do you know people are real?

Anyone can browse with a verified email, but nobody reaches a move-in on that alone: a government ID with a live selfie is required to host or to move in, with a background check optional on top. Verification shows as a badge, so you always know which one you're dealing with.

Does Sharelet ask for my SSN?

No, never. ID and background checks run on Stripe and Checkr's secure systems — Sharelet never sees or stores your documents or your SSN.

What if the place isn't as promised?

The First Night Promise: if it's misrepresented, unsafe, or fake, report it within 48 hours of move-in with photos. Your held first month comes back in full, and so does any deposit still held, once you've returned the keys. It covers the place not matching its listing, not a change of mind. Full terms at /guarantee.

Ready when you are

Move in without the fear.

Verified people, every listing screened, and nobody pays a landlord before they have the keys — whether you're finding a place or filling one.

Every host verified · no landlord paid until you’re in · Boston & Florida

A note from the founders

We started Sharelet because finding a place to live shouldn't mean gambling your savings on a stranger's word. We've watched people lose deposits to listings that never existed. That's the whole reason this exists.

We're building the place we'd want our own family to use, whether that's a room, an apartment, or a sublet. Right now, while we're small, we review every host ourselves. Nobody pays a landlord before they've got the keys, and every listing gets screened before anyone sees it.

We're starting in Boston and Florida, building this the way we'd want it for someone we love. Move in, settle in, and breathe easy. That's our promise to you.

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Remy

Co-founder & CEO

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Amber

Co-founder & COO

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