4:12 AM Five Best Apartment Search Tools #santa #monica #apartments #for #rent | ||||
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Craigslist is a popular destination among Lifehacker readers searching for apartment listings, but it isn t the most feature packed apartment listing tool. Fortunately PadMapper takes the spartan listings on Craigslist and aggregates them into a Google Maps mashup. You can search PadMapper just like you would Google Maps, and every pushpin in the map is an apartment listing. PadMapper results can be filtered by price, bedrooms, bathrooms, and pets. If you re already using Craigslist to do your apartment searching, PadMapper will put an extra zing to your search.
MyApartmentMap has quite a slew of features beyond simply indexing apartment listings. You can jump to Google Streetview to check out your new neighborhood, browse an interactive map of local businesses and social spots, and get rental data for your new city and neighborhood to compare the prices of the apartments you re looking at to the city averages—a rather handy feature if you re moving to a city with a market you re unfamiliar with. You can also search by colleges to see listings for off-campus housing surrounding that college in addition to searching by city and neighborhood. If you don t find anything you like, you can set up email and RSS alerts to be notified when listings that fit your requirements appear. MyApartmentMap pulls listings from Craigslist (like PadMapper) as well as a variety of other online resources. Pounding the PavementAs awesome as scouring the internet for a new pad can be, the whole world hasn t been digitized. That cool little apartment over a garage in a scenic Victorian neighborhood you just love probably won t ever make an appearance on a huge apartment aggregation site. Sometimes you just have to hit the streets, ask questions, and see what turns up. As we pointed out in our guide to apartment hunting. the greatest apartments often never advertise beyond putting out a For Rent sign because they don t have to; people flock to the best neighborhoods looking for them. Photo by Rodrigo Cayo . Now that you ve had a chance to look over the contenders for the title of best apartment search tool, it s time to cast your vote to see which tool will be crowned king of the pad-finding-castle.
Have a tool we didn t list? Shocked that scouting-via-airplane wasn t considered? Sound off in the comments with your apartment finding tips, tricks, and tools. Gear from Kinja Deals
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