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Advertising an Rental Apartment Without Craigslist?

  • After several failed attempts to advertise a rental apartment in Craigslist's NYC "Rental by owners" category I am fed up. Are there any other alternatives aside from Zillow/brokers? I've edited my Craigslist rental ad more time than I can remember and unfortunately my ads keep getting deleted (ads get deleted after reaching a certain number of "flags"). Their help forum suggested that the Brooklyn DA's received so many fraud complaints that the Craigslist moderators lowered the flag-threshold and now many ads get removed rather quickly. Can anyone suggest another way of advertising rentals? Craigslist used to be the best option but those days seem to be over.

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    Besides posting physical signage or using the advice above, there's not too much outside of craigslist and zillow offered to the non licensed agent owner. Of course, there's trulia and apartments.com, but I have had much success with postlets.com (which is a zillow company). The reason I mention this, however, as I am not sure why you are opposed to zillow, is twofold. 1. A posting on postlets.com goes live across 10 or so different sites. I have had good response from various portals from ads placed here. 2. Perhaps more helpful to you, they generate cut and paste html at the end of the process specifically for craigslist. Using the generated code, the ad is more clean, clear, and professional looking on Craigslist and could perhaps garnish far fewer flags for you and result in a better response. You could always delete the ad on postlets.com immediately after getting the code if you are unable or unwilling to use the zillow type sites.

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melissasaurus

StreetEasy?

Potomac Avenue

You could also try contacting people in the "housing wanted" section of Craigslist. I've had good luck with it as a renter and presumably so have the landlords who contacted me and ultimately rented to me.

whoaali

I see people advertising their on my local parenting lists all the time. School lists are another good resource if you have access to them, as well as bulletin boards at the places you frequent.

snickerdoodle

Post flyers at coffee shops in your neighborhood. If it's appropriate for student living, post flyers at universities too.

Leontine

Community list serve?

oceanjesse

A public Facebook post your friends can share

DarlingBri

Also I have never used Apartments.com but they have a pretty snappy national ad campaign running right now.

Potomac Avenue

I've posted on Postlets without any responses yet. Perhaps, I'll go back and rewrite my ad from scratch (or change my rent). Also, thanks everyone!

cowlick

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