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Ask HN: What do you use when searching for houses or apartments online?
Craigslist? Any other popular ones if you're looking for cheap housing online?
- quoderat 18y agoI use PadMapper. http://www.padmapper.com http://www.padmapper.com
- spencerfry 18y agoHadn't seen that before. Nice find.
- padmapper 18y agoHey, thanks for the plug. If anyone has any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email me at padmapper@gmail.com (or use the feedback link on the site). It's still pretty new, and there's definitely room for improvement.
- car 18y agoGreat job! We'll be using padmapper on our house hunt from now on. How do you handle CL entries without street location information?
- padmapper 18y agoUnfortunately, PadMapper has to ignore those - there's nothing that can really be done. This means that about 1/2-2/3 of listings end up getting ignored. The ones that are left are less likely to be a waste of your time, though.
- GavinB 18y agoGreat site. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement or whether it would hurt the performance, but it would be great if you overlaid the subway lines. See http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ for an example. Frankly, I don't know why google hasn't done this themselves, it's incredibly useful.
- padmapper 18y agoGood idea - it would slow it down a bit, but I'm pretty sure it would be useful. The subway commute-time filter is a bit limited in its use, but you can use it to try areas for their commute time to other areas. Also, it's not as useful, but if you zoom in on the metro stations on any google map, it'll tell you what lines stop there.
- potatolicious 18y agoGreat site :) I've seen people do Google Maps-integrated housing searches, but they always insist on using their own (very limited) data. It's about time someone did this with CL :) I'm currently looking for housing too, so thanks a ton :)
- truebosko 18y agoAmazing site. I'm moving to Montreal and have been sorting through TONS of listings (not used to it all, coming from a much smaller city!) and it's been pretty tiresome This site is seriously a godsend and will instantly reduce our stress in finding a place.
- lsb 18y agoIt's a lovely UI, but golly is it slow.
- padmapper 18y agoThanks! What browser are you using? It basically doesn't support IE 6/7 because their anemic Javascript engines make it torturously slow. I'm very curious to hear about your experience, though... padmapper@gmail.com
- potatolicious 18y agoIt's pretty fast on the Safari beta... that being said, it is pretty slow if you try to zoom into the map via mousewheel, since it does an update even at high zoom levels. Maybe limit updates to every X zoom levels at the high level, and then update at every zoom for the finer ones.
- padmapper 18y agoAh yeah, that might be an optimization worth making. Thanks for the feedback.
- potatolicious 18y agoAbility to link to the current view would be nice... I wanted to show a friend a neighbourhood I was looking at but couldn't :) Sorry to suggesting such low-priority things, I'm a bit OCD about these things...
- padmapper 18y agoThat's actually something I've been wanting to do for a while, I just haven't gotten around to it - basically a full "save state". A workaround is to save something in the neighborhood to your favorites list, and then save the favorites list. This'll shoot you an email with a link that can restore that list, and you can send/forward that link to your friend. Once the list is loaded up, they can click on the go to marker button/graphic in the saved favorites list.
- keeptrying 18y agoGreat site. Love the way you've maximized the amount of apartments and minimized the size of the controls. Good job!
- lbolognini 18y agoTrulia
- andrewljohnson 18y agoI wrote a map mash-up of CraigsList ads recently: http://www.trailbehind.com/housing_map http://www.trailbehind.com/housing_map
- mhp 18y agostreeteasy.com in NYC
- replicatorblog 18y agoIf you are looking for short term housing Air Bed & Breakfast works pretty well. (www.airbnb.com) It is also a YCombinator company.
- jerryji 18y agoeuwyn.com ? (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544074 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544074 )
- mattstein 18y agohousingmaps.com
- smileplease 18y agoglobrix.com in UK
- vaksel 18y agoIf I was looking now, I'd only use Craigslist
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- Vivtek 18y agoLast time I tried looking using Craigslist (this was in Bloomington, IN in 2006) there was about a 1:1 spam/ham ratio. I gave up in disgust pretty quickly.
- wmli 18y agohttp://www.booli.se http://www.booli.se in Sweden. Pretty good UI.
- kierank 18y agohttp://www.rightmove.co.uk http://www.rightmove.co.uk
- drp 18y agoI work at (and and found my current apartment using) HotPads - http://hotpads.com http://hotpads.com We list about 300k rental houses and apartments all over the US
- dejb 18y agowww.realestate.com.au - they have some annoying problems but they are the dominant force with the most listings.
- joshwa 18y agoUsing my own search organization tool called FlowThing: http://i44.tinypic.com/erei4g.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/erei4g.jpg Email me for an invite code... in a very private alpha right now.
- tzetzefly 18y agoI like redfin.com, estately.com, and realtor.com. Then use dwellicious.com to bookmark and track listings from different sites in one place.
- NoBSWebDesign 18y agoIf you're looking for student rental housing by any chance, that's what our startup is for... http://www.ratemystudentrental.com http://www.ratemystudentrental.com For non-student housing, I use http://www.mapskrieg.com http://www.mapskrieg.com
- shubhamharnal 18y agoUbiquity + Craigslist Check the video at: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
- shubhamharnal 18y agoUbiquity + Craigslist Check the video at: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/