Findings houses for rent

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Fanny McLonghorn

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How do you go about doing this? Are there locators that will find them for you, and take a fee from the owner? Or do they charge up-front. I've only lived in apartments so far, so I'm kinda retarded at this.

Craigslist hasn't been too helpful so far.
 
The best thing to do is drive around the neighborhood you want to live in and look for "for rent" signs.
 
Realtors are free to you. You might as well contact one. They have access to anything listed by a realtor. I used to work for Habitat Hunters a long time ago and they are a good company if you are in Austin. When I was looking for houses with my friends, I had the best luck looking through the Statesman. They had a lot of stuff that were not listed by a Realtor. They seemed to be a better deal as well, b/c they weren't paying for a Broker, and most of the time a Property Manager. I would say, get a Realtor and look in the paper. You have to stay on top of it, b/c all the good deals will go fast and new stuff comes up every day.

Good luck.
 
Rentalhouses.com

Housingmaps.com

And craiglist. They all have some similar info though. Like someone else said, driving the areas your interested in will be helpful. Look for signs from management companies. The house we ended up in wasn't even on their website yet when we started looking. The leasing agent mentioned it when we were looking at a different place.
 
in dallas i used this one: www.findyourlease.com

lets you break it down by area using a maps. love it. i am sure every town has one of these. it just uses the MLS database, so anything you see there you will see on realtor.com. if you go to realtor.com use the rent search at the top. it will show you everyone that is listed with an agent. remember, the realtor that shows/leases you the property gets paid the first month's rent. so most realtors are glad to show you properties. people leasing are not near as picky at their home buying counterparts. it is easy money for the agents. let them do the work man.
 
Bluto is right. Realtors put up with helping someone find a rental because they are hoping that you will eventually want to buy a house and in turn utilize them as your agent. Basically, finding you a rental home is business development for them
 
with the housing market the way it is, trust me... they'll help you. my friend just made $2500 (first month's rent) for about 3 hours worth of work.

and they landlord payed my agent 100% and the agent about 100% (2500 a month).

so i will have to respectfully disagree.
 
notreally,
every deal is different and every city has different 'standards.' I do think that type of payoff on a lease is a rarity for any market/area. And I will say that my post was based off the Austin market in particular. If Durkee were still around, I'm sure he would have a word or two about it (there's a reason he got out of it).
 
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