Sell the contract you can’t keep
Mission calls, transfers, marriages, withdrawals — every year thousands of BYU and UVU students are locked into housing contracts they no longer need, and thousands more arrive mid-year needing one. This is the board where those two find each other. Free to post, free to browse, no fee on either side.
List a contract →The board is open and waiting for its first listing
Every listing here is posted by a real student — we don’t invent them to make the page look busy. If you’re holding a contract you need out of, you’d be first, and first is the best place to be on a board students are about to start checking daily.
How a contract sale works in Provo
Utah Valley runs on the academic year rather than a normal twelve-month lease, which is why this market exists at all — and why it behaves differently from renting anywhere else.
- The seller is still on the hook until the office says otherwise
- Finding someone willing to take your contract is step one of two. Until the complex or landlord formally transfers the contract into the new person’s name, the original signer remains liable for the rent. A handshake and a Venmo transfer are not a contract transfer.
- Provo.com is a listing board and nothing more
- We never hold money, never assign a contract, never take a commission, and never verify that a listing is real. Everything after the introduction happens between you, the other student, and the housing office.
- Listings expire so the board stays honest
- A Fall contract still showing in November is worse than no board at all. Posts drop off automatically, and a poster can set an earlier date when the contract is gone.
- It is free, and it stays free
- Students never pay to list or to browse. If this board ever carries paid placement it will be complexes and property managers filling their own units, and it will say so on the listing.
What the fields mean
The board is structured on purpose — a Facebook post can say anything, and none of it is searchable six weeks later.
- BYU-approved
- A contract in housing that appears on BYU's approved list. Transfers run through the complex's office and the contract is single-sex by the terms of the housing system, not by anything the seller decides.
- UVU-area
- A lease or contract near UVU in Orem. UVU does not operate an approved-housing program, so these are ordinary Utah tenancies and the transfer question is whether your lease permits assignment or subletting.
- Open to either
- Housing that is not tied to either school's system — a normal apartment that happens to sit where students live. Anyone can take it over if the landlord agrees.
- Fall semester
- Roughly late August through December.
- Winter semester
- Roughly January through April. The single busiest contract-sale window of the year.
- Spring term
- Late April into June.
- Summer term
- June into August. Overlaps heavily with sublets.
- Full contract year
- The whole academic year, usually Fall through the following April.
- Private room
- Your own bedroom in a shared apartment.
- Shared room
- A bedroom shared with one or more roommates — the cheapest tier in contracted housing.
- Whole unit
- The entire apartment or house, not a single space within one.
Read this before you sell or buy
Three guides that cover the part the board can’t: the paperwork, the law, and the ways this goes wrong.
- Selling a BYU housing contract
- How the approved-housing system treats a transfer, what the office will and won’t do for you, the sex-designation rule and the federal advertising law behind it, and what a fair discount actually looks like.
- Selling a UVU-area contract
- UVU runs no approved-housing program, so this is ordinary Utah landlord-tenant law: assignment versus subletting, who keeps the deposit, and the clause in your lease that decides both.
- Buying a mid-year contract
- The buyer’s side: how to confirm the contract is real, the deposit question nobody asks until it’s too late, the scam patterns that run every January, and the eight things to check before you pay anyone.
Contracts move fastest in the two weeks around move-in and again through November and December, when winter-semester places change hands. Listings expire automatically so the board never shows a contract that’s already gone.