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DigsConnect Aims To Assist Both Students And Young Professionals To Easily Find Reputable Accommodation

DigsConnect Aims To Assist Both Students And Young Professionals To Easily Find Reputable Accommodation. Finding a credible accommodation as a student or young professional can be a daunting task as one has to make sure that they will be staying in a safe place that also meets their accommodation needs. Students can often be misled by people who pretend to be landlords of private accommodations and often lose their money in the process of trying to find a place to stay. DigsConnect is a company that aims to solve this problem and help students find accommodation that is suitable for them and their financial circumstances.

DigsConnect is the largest student accommodation marketplace on the African continent. The company pairs up registered students and young professionals looking for a place to stay with home owners across South Africa that are looking to rent out their properties on a long term basis.The company’s main priority is safety and security for its community, so it makes every effort to personally verify its users so that it can create a safe place for students and young adults to find and book a room, and to help the landlord seamlessly find and manage student tenants in their properties.

The company explains that its journey all started in 2018 at the peak of the student accommodation protests, when Alexandria Procter, the founder was sitting in her SRC office in the Steve Biko building at the University of Cape Town daydreaming about innovative ways to connect landlords who have empty beds and students who needed accommodation. Procter managed to convince Greg Keal to jump on board, and DigsConnect Version 1 was born. The company is now known to be the largest platform connecting young people with the homes of their dreams on the African continent as according to it-it has connected more than 50 000 people on its platform over the past 36 months.

DigsConnect requires all users to add a profile picture, validate their cell phone number and email address and to provide their ID number, this is because the company deals with young students who may not be fully aware of how the company works and it seeks to provide safety first to these students as they can easily be manipulated by scammers online.

With everything it is involved in, the company’s mission and goal is to build a community of students, tenants, landlords and partnered academic institutions who share its vision of creating a platform that connects people in a safe and secure environment around the world.

By Thomas Chiothamisi

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