BoardMe is a trust-first boarding finder for Sri Lanka, built for students and working people who need a safe place to stay — and for owners who want serious tenants without paying brokers.
Every listing on BoardMe is reviewed by a human before it goes live, and every owner verifies who they are. Brokers and agents are banned by our terms, and we enforce that with identity checks, community reporting and moderation.
Every boarding on BoardMe carries a green seal — here's exactly what happens between an owner submitting a listing and that seal appearing.
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BoardMe is a discovery platform: rental agreements are made directly between you and the owner, and we never charge seekers anything. If something looks wrong, use the report button — it genuinely helps keep the platform clean.
The owner's NIC and phone number, the map pin location, the photos, and the written details. A person reviews every submission — nothing is auto-approved.
Usually within 24 hours. The stamp on each listing shows the date it was last reviewed.
No. Searching, contacting owners and reporting problems are all free. We never charge finder's fees.
The owner fills in the details — address, price, room photos — and submits the listing. It goes straight into our review queue as pending, not live yet.
Hi — BoardMe verification team.
Someone from our team visits the actual property — no stock photos, no phone-only checks, before it can go live.
Face matches the NIC — rooms match the photos.
Brokers and mismatched listings get rejected here — identity, ownership, and the listing itself all get checked against what's really there.
There it is — verified.
Only now does the listing switch to Approved and pick up its green seal — the same one you see on the site, dated to this visit.
No owner can pay their way to it and no listing skips the visit. If a boarding is ever re-listed with a major change — new address, new price bracket — the whole process starts over.
