If you live in a rental house...

[pinkplasticdoll]

How did you find it?

I am trying to find a rental house and all I seem to find on craigslist are apartments or houses that look like scams. 

[penguingrrl]

We found ours because there was a for rent sign out front. It looked cute, so we called the number on the sign. They got 60+ inquiries having the sign out for 2 days and we ended up getting it.

[ElizabethBennet]

We googled property management companies in the area and went trough them.

[emerald59]

Homes.com. You can search specifically for rentals. We also worked with a realtor, but the house I found on homes.com wasn't even on her list yet.

[flipflopsandwine]

We did a few years ago. We have a friend who is a realtor and she found several and set up the appointments to view them.

[Deleted]

Through a real estate agent. Alot of RE offices do property management too.


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[nannersp]

We've had good luck with Craigslist. We found our Portland rental that way. Here in Los Angeles, we used a local paid service called Westside Rentals.

You can also check out Padmapper.com to focus on specific neighborhoods, but I think most of the listings are culled from Craigslist.

[beefjerky]

We have a rental and use both a property management company in that town and also I list it on hotpads.com.  Hotpads.com is actually how we found our rental in our new city.

[pantsparty]

Craigslist.

[DotAndBuzz]

We had a realtor take us around for a day and show us rentals. I know it was a low commission for him, but it was 1 day, and he was with us for about 4 hours total, including drawing up paperwork and faxing the application to the other listing agent.

I've found houses by calling property management companies on my own, setting up showings, having them flake out, etc. Never again. And I know lots of people use Craigslist for this, I'm extremely wary of Craigslist in general. Realtor all the way.

[pinkplasticdoll]

Thank you for all of the suggestions I appreciate them all. I am worried about finding a house on craigslist because I don't trust it 100% for something like this so I think I will check out the sites recommended and then contact a few management companies/ realtors.

[Smallstar]

We found our current rental on zillow under the Houses for Rent option. We called the property management company included on the listing, set up a showing and signed the lease 2 days later. For our last rental house, we called a local realtor who hooked us up with a great house that fit within our neighborhood/price preferences.

[onesweetworld]

Kijiji

[sweetredheadx]

We used the local newspaper. The classifieds are listed online.