There are many great websites out there that let you search for apartments that match your criteria. Whether you're looking for a one-bedroom apartment with a swimming pool in an Atlanta suburb or a two-bedroom furnished apartment in a building with a fitness center and doorman in Chicago, the Web can help you find it.
Although you might have a favorite apartment search site, you're limiting your options if you stick to using just one site. Checking at least a few sites regularly for new listings is the best way to maximize your chances of finding the perfect apartment for you. Searching multiple sites can be a drag if you have to visit each site and reenter your search criteria each time.
Fortunately, there's no need to do this if you use RentCompare.com. A part of the SearchBoth.com network, RentCompare.com asks you to input your criteria just once. Then, the service searches several top apartment sites at once -- such as craigslist.org, rent.com, hotpads.com, mynewplace.com, and apartmentfinder.com, to name a few -- and returns the icons of all sites that produced listings. To view the listings for a particular site, you just click that site's icon, without having to reinput your search parameters.
RentCompare.com's multiple search service is free, but you're required to create a username and password.
