Good site for apartment rentals?

[NewJeffCT]

I've tried rent.com, forrent.com and a few others.

just looking for something different.

[Chan790]

1. Ugh...not a good market for that sort of search.

I've done a lot of looking lately, for me and for friends. Most of the places that people would want to live (i.e. not slums) are owned by individuals or small holding companies (exceptions in the cities...somewhat.); thus websites will do you no good. Where in CT are you looking for?

[NewJeffCT]

2. Stamford or Fairfield

or somewhere in between.

[Chan790]

4. You may have more luck down there with websites.

I was thinking you were looking at non-NYC-metro CT.(Somewhere in the HFD-NH corridor.) On the shoreline you run into the opposite problem, the ones on the websites tend to be the luxury apartments. I've had a lot more luck with the newspapers and alternative weeklies in terms of finding affordable housing.

I just ran a search for the local newspaper classifieds for the Stamford Advocate and ended up on a website called http://www.cthousehunter.com which had a rental section including apartments. If you're relocating down there for work, ask your employer. They might have a better idea.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. It's all paid advertising.

Apartments.com, all of them.

PAID, bogus.

I had to move in August, when my landlord sold my townhome. I found out that the San Jose Mercury, once THE go-to source for finding a place to live, had become a half-page series of ads and a lot of pointers to Apartments.com, which is nothing more than a paid service for apartment complexes.

I found my new home on Craigslist. They pretty much killed the Mercury. People who want to find a place to live in Silicon Valley start (and usually end) with Craigslist.

Good luck.

I had to move 3 times in 4 years because of landlords cashing in their cash cows. Frigging hated it, but you know the bit about things that don't kill us making us stronger.

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