Built-in search filters include the type of dwelling, price range, number of baths and bedrooms, rental types, and property types. Select from rental types such as regular, sublet, corporate, and room for rent, as well as from property types such as apartment, condo, duplex, house, and townhouse. If you register with the site, save listings as favorites. Many apartment complexes on the site offer virtual tours. A built-in calculator also helps determine how much rent you can afford to pay. Craigslist delivers a list view, but property owners and agents can opt to post location maps and photo and video tours of the apartment. Dates for open houses are also easy to find. By default, you receive a map view. Use a built-in drawing tool to specify the borders for your geographic search, then turn to a polygon tool to drill down into listings in smaller geographic parts of the overall search area. Use a built-in drawing tool to designate simultaneous searches of multiple sections of a map. A “live near” mapping tool lets you find apartments within designated distances of points of interest, such as grocery stores. Apartment Guide is chock-full of filters. Search an entire state or by nearby colleges or military bases, for example. RentHop also gives each apartment a HopScore, based on the freshness and quality of the listing and the property manager’s reputation. However, a HopScore lower than 95 percent is seemingly rare.
