Where To Look For House Rentals?

[orangeblossom]

 I've checked craigslist, zillow, and realtor already.  Any other places that you've looked at for rentals? TIA.

[Pom]

Call realtors in the area you want to rent?

[audette]

We have used AHRN, but it might be exclusive to military folks.

[Deleted]

Our local newspaper has rental listings every week in the paper and online.

[orangeblossom]

Apr 21, 2015 9:05:06 GMT -5 audette said:

We have used AHRN, but it might be exclusive to military folks.

Thanks, but I think it is just for military folks.

[keweenawlove]

I ended up finding a list intended for medical residents just googling "town name houses for rent." I found a lot more listings that way. Most of the landlords I talked to were happy to rent to us. They said normally just having to go the extra step beyond the standard sites weeded out a lot of potential bad renters so maybe check with one of the hospitals in your area.

[orangeblossom]

Apr 21, 2015 9:40:01 GMT -5 keweenawlove said:

I ended up finding a list intended for medical residents just googling "town name houses for rent." I found a lot more listings that way. Most of the landlords I talked to were happy to rent to us. They said normally just having to go the extra step beyond the standard sites weeded out a lot of potential bad renters so maybe check with one of the hospitals in your area.

Good idea. Thanks.

[charethcutestory]

We have had luck on Trulia. It's not great if you are looking in an area with rapid turnover but it's pretty reliable.

[M]

We started with hotpads.com. After calling a few, one realtor finally called back and showed us other homes until we eventually found one.

Are you moving away from the area?

[imojoebunny]

It is highly location dependent. We score tenants in 4 minutes on craigslist, now, but it used to be more via other local websites, and in other areas, other websites are better.

[ellipses84]

In our old state craigslist was a good option. In our new state rentals go through a realtor, which is new to me. We found a couple we liked on Trulia and Zillow called the listing agents. One listing agent also offered to find us others in the area, so he took us around one day and we found a place we liked. Narrowing it down to neighborhood really helped and you can put in your parameters and view places on the map in zillow.

[scout8]

When I list rentals, most of the inquires I get come from hotpads, trulia, and zillow.

[orangeblossom]

Thanks all. I'd never heard of hotpads before. I checked it out and found a few things.

[ddi741]

We always list ours in the local 'Iwanna' newspaper. It's local to the area and is nothing but classified ads for all different things.