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Beginning in Spring 2014, the RoomSync app will use Facebook (online and via mobile) as a tool to help students choose who they want to be roommates with.

 

RoomSync is partnering with Campus Apartments LLC, the largest student housing company in the nation, to offer this unique experience to college students attending school in the U.S.. This innovative way of picking a roommate will cut out the middleman [the school] and give the student a personal opportunity to choose who is the best fit for them.

 

Through this partnership, Campus Apartments’ residents will be able to browse potential roommates through the RoomSync app based on a variety of topics, including interests, mutual friends and academic majors. This specially-designed tool empowers students to choose a roommate whom they feel best fits their living environment, rather than relying on the traditional process of site staff manually assigning roommates based on questionnaires. Once a resident selects a compatible roommate on RoomSync, the property’s leasing office receives a full roommate report, eliminating the paper process entirely. The matching service will be available to Campus Apartments’ owned properties and a portion of third party managed communities. Each property will have a Campus Apartments-branded app with complete RoomSync functionality and support.

 

Not only will this help students gain a better living experience overall, but it will also “lower percentages of room transfer requests, improve student academic outcomes and decrease the severity of roommate conflicts,” says Robert Castellucci, co-founder and president of RoomSync.

 

To learn more about the app’s latest feature, visit www.RoomSync.com.

 

 

About Campus Apartments

 

Campus Apartments, LLC, the oldest and one of the largest privately held student housing companies in the nation, is a leader in the development and management of university-affiliated real estate. The company has more than $2 billion worth of assets under management with more than 34,500 beds in 25 states. For more information on Campus Apartments, please visit www.campusapts.com.

 

About RoomSync

 

RoomSync provides roommate matching software to more than 150 student housing communities, on-campus housing departments, internship programs and conferences. RoomSync empowers residents to find roommates by mutual Facebook friends, common interests, lifestyle questions, academic majors and more. RoomSync also offers whitelabeling services, which allow clients to have a custom-branded environment with all the same RoomSync functionality. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Gainesville, Florida. For more information, please visit www.RoomSync.com.

 

Source: Businesswire