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NWR: Recommend a good apartment searching site?

bablingbrookebablingbrooke member
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DH and I are searching for a new place but since I'm searching long-distance I have to do the initial screening online.  Can anyone recommend a good nationwide website for finding apartments?  I've used rent.com and apartmentratings.com and they're decent but any recommendations would be appreciated!  
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  • suz62984suz62984
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    Apartmentfinder.com

    When searching for a house I also used Google Map's Street View to check out the area. Some sounded great but the street view showed the area to be really really bad!
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  • stefani103stefani103 member
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    We used
    www.apartments.com
    www.rent.com

    And I think FI used www.forrent.com (they put out books, the free ones at the grocery). I THINK that's the site that has furniture you can arrange for space planning.

    Then usually used www.apartmentratings.com for the ratings once we found something we liked.
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  • mandybear7mandybear7
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    We seriously used craigslist. It's more than just for solicitation ;)
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  • TurtlesAllTheWayDownTurtlesAllTheWayDown member
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    Craigslist, for sure. I've found a lot of apartments through there.
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  • bablingbrookebablingbrooke member
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    BAD experiences with Craigslist so that one's out I'm afraid :(  
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  • jagore08jagore08 member
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    You said you're going to be moving just north of LA, right?  I am not quite sure but check out Westsiderentals.com.
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  • bablingbrookebablingbrooke member
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    South of LA, actually.
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  • TurtlesAllTheWayDownTurtlesAllTheWayDown member
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    Westsiderentals, then, for sure. I didn't know about that! I found the apartment I'm in now through them. They are exclusive to LA. They cost $60 for 3 months, but everyone I know who has used them thinks it is worth it, including me.
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  • soon2bMrsColinsoon2bMrsColin member
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    We used rent.com but we never got the $100 for using them. After we found mice in our apartment I did a better search and discovered apartmentratings.com LOVE that website. So after you find one on rent.com go to apartmentratings.com and find out what people are saying. Like here it's based on expereinces so I take it with a grain of salt but it was helpful. Stay away from craigslist several of my friends were scammed on that.
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