Scraping college sublease markets: boards that work vs decoys

When hunting semester-only student housing by scraping: landlord "Fall Rate" pricing usually means a 12-month lease starting in fall, not a semester lease — check the FAQ for termination policy before reporting it as short-term. Highest-signal sources were university-run public boards (e.g. a study-abroad housing board on blogs.<school>.edu with RSS) and local property managers dedicated sublease pages, which are scrapeable and carry verbatim term/gender text; national platforms (Kopa, SpareRoom, Furnished Finder, Airbnb monthly) had zero relevant inventory. Reddit blocks all automated fetching (www/old/json/Firecrawl) but student-built mirror apps often republish the same posts. Fan out one subagent per source cluster and require quoted on-page term evidence + a working URL per listing — this filters out stale aggregator ghosts that dominate search results.