Services · Couples Match & Family Search
Two Programs. One Address. A Search That Solves for Everyone Under the Roof.
A couples match doubles every constraint: two schedules that will rarely align, two commutes that may point in different directions, and two contracts arriving on their own timelines. Add a partner’s job, a child’s daily routine, or a large dog, and the standard one-bedroom-near-the-hospital answer stops working entirely.
Free to residents and fellows — the community pays the locator fee. No obligation, and no unit ever pushed on you.
$0
What a resident or fellow pays us. Communities fund the locator fee on every placement — intern year included.
1 day
Our target from your intake call to a first matched list — the pace a Match-to-July timeline actually needs.
40+
San Antonio communities on our policy tracker, logged with lease terms, income-documentation rules, and quiet-unit notes.
In writing
How every quote reaches you — pricing and screening criteria confirmed against current property sheets, never from memory.
Why this matters
What it costs to do nothing
Solve for one person’s commute and the other absorbs the cost of it for the length of a lease — and when the programs sit on opposite sides of town, an address picked casually can bake forty minutes a day of avoidable driving into years that have no spare minutes. Households that shop only by unit size hit the other failure: a floor plan that fits on paper but puts the second bedroom against the breezeway, so one person’s post-call sleep and another’s daily routine collide every day at noon.
Why clients choose us for couples match & family search
- Dual-commute mapping comes first: both worksites plotted, drive times at the hours you will actually drive them, and the corridors that keep the worse commute tolerable identified before any unit is shortlisted.
- Two training contracts in one application file is a documentation problem we already know how to assemble — both contracts, both verification letters, matched to each community’s written household-screening policy.
- Start-date alignment is negotiated deliberately when two programs begin in the same month, so one lease covers both arrivals without paying for an empty month or couch-surfing through orientation.
- Larger floor plans get screened for how the bedrooms separate — a two- or three-bedroom where the rooms share a wall with the living space defeats the point when one of you sleeps days.
The practical answer
Intake covers the whole household: both programs and their start dates, any non-medical job and its location, budget as a combined number, vehicle count and parking needs, pets with breed and weight (San Antonio communities vary widely on both), and the floor-plan realities — who sleeps when, who needs a desk for boards study, what a child’s routine requires from the space itself. The shortlist that comes back weighs the physical facts of each property: bedroom separation, yard or green-space access on site, garage and storage options, and the commute math for every worksite in the file. Fair-housing law shapes how we work and we follow it precisely: we describe places and features, never who lives in a neighborhood, and every listing is offered on the same terms to every household. The service is free to you regardless of household size — communities pay the fee.
Common questions
- Our two programs are on opposite sides of San Antonio. Where does that leave us?
- With a corridor, not a compromise address picked by guesswork. We plot both commutes at your real hours and shortlist along the routes that split the pain deliberately — including checking whether one schedule (heavier nights, more weekends) should be weighted over raw distance. You see the drive-time math per property before you decide.
- One of us starts July 1 and the other in mid-June. Can one lease cover it?
- Usually, and this is a negotiation worth having early. Most communities will set a start date that lands the first arrival with keys, and we raise it before the lease is generated — the same request after signing is a lease change, which is a much harder conversation.
- Do communities screen both contracts, or just one income?
- Written policies almost always screen the household together, which generally helps a two-contract file. The details — how two future start dates are handled, whether both need verification letters — differ by community, and we confirm each one against its current criteria before you apply. As always, the screening decision itself belongs to the community.
- We have a 70-pound dog. Is that a dealbreaker?
- It narrows the list rather than ending it. Weight limits and breed policies vary sharply across San Antonio communities and change without much notice, so we confirm the current written pet policy — including deposits and monthly pet rent — per property before it reaches your shortlist.
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Match week is loud. The housing search doesn’t have to be.
Tell us your program, your start date, and how you need to sleep. We shortlist, verify the written policies, and run the San Antonio legwork while you finish medical school.