Find a rental
TenantMarket is a Web site with the goal of matching landlords with tenants. As described by Emily Chang, it appears to be the “Match.com for apartments.” When looking for a rental in a new city, I had a great experience with rent.com and apartmentfinder.com. I wish I had know about this service back then. Here is the description from TenantMarket:
Renters: Tell landlords what you want and a little about yourself. Matching landlords contact you and make personalized rental offers based on your profile.
Landlords: TenantMarket is a new service that helps landlords find the right tenants fast! Why waste time and money with newspaper ads, bandit signs, and MLS listings when TenantMarket can find great renters instantly?
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matt says on February 8th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Wow. I have no idea why this will work in any urban location. For example, in chicago it had no way to limit the search to a zip code. It was “Chicago + 25 miles”. I also have to give up all of my information to POSSIBLY get a contact about some rentals that have no guarantee to be anywhere near where i want to live. Here’s some quick ways to improve it.
1) Include a zip code for the renters
2) Include greater than for bed and bathrooms
3) Have a searchable list of current properties
Jeremy says on February 8th, 2007 at 10:26 am
matt:
Thanks for the feedback. Couple quick clarifications.
Beds/baths– this actually is a >= operator, but the form needs to be more clear. Thanks for that feedback!
As for the search area, TenantMarket lets you narrow down your search to within a 1/2 mile radius around a specific point.
One the Renters tab, click the “change” link right below the text “within 25 miles of Chicago”. Doing so will pop-up a window with a larger Google Map you can interact with. You can pinpoint the center of your search area by clicking on the map and change the search radius with the drop-down on the left.
Here’s a screenshot webware made of the location picker screen:
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_.....l?tag=blog
As for having a searchable list of current properties– that’s on the way. For now, check out TenantMarket’s sister site, http://www.Apartments-and-Rentals.com.
-Jeremy