11-24-2012, 01:24 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Kijiji, Beyond, Craigslist? Where do Calgarians look for rental housing?
Spent some time last night looking through kijiji and craigslist for rental housing in Calgary, and was underwhelmed by the results.
Is there another place Calgarians post their rental properties that I should know about?
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11-24-2012, 01:25 PM
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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11-24-2012, 01:27 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Oshawa
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https://www.padmapper.com/#
It compiles the results from many different sites.
Holy crap, Calgary is expensive.
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Last edited by OffsideSpecialist; 11-24-2012 at 01:30 PM.
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11-24-2012, 01:28 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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rentfaster.ca
Sure you have to pay but i can rent out my places with them in less than 10minutes.
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11-24-2012, 01:34 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
rentfaster.ca
Sure you have to pay but i can rent out my places with them in less than 10minutes.
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That is fast!
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11-24-2012, 01:41 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola
That is fast!
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Not only that, it's multiple offers. In august i had requests for 14 showings in the first 10 minutes after i posted. insane.
I'm pretty sure rentfaster has an email alert setting where it alerts potential renters of a new listing in an area.
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11-24-2012, 02:40 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Yeah the past 4-5 years the calls I get when listing places is almost exclusively from rentfaster.ca, with kijiji being a distant second. I can't remember the last time I got someone from craigslist. For Calgary anyway.
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11-24-2012, 02:58 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Yeah the past 4-5 years the calls I get when listing places is almost exclusively from rentfaster.ca, with kijiji being a distant second. I can't remember the last time I got someone from craigslist. For Calgary anyway.
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craigslist for Calgary is like buying a bargainfinder newspaper in 2004.
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11-24-2012, 03:04 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: ---
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Found my place on kijiiji. Seemed to be lots of available rentals at the time.
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11-24-2012, 03:07 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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RentFaster and PadMapper are the two I've used.
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GO FLAMES GO.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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11-24-2012, 05:12 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Kijiji is what I use to rent out, and haven't had any problems.
Have never tried rentfaster.ca, but it sounds like a good site as well.
And don't forget rental vacancy right now in Calgary is pretty low. It's pretty hard to find a good place.
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11-24-2012, 10:24 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Rentfaster is amazing for landlords, but almost useless for renters in the current market.
Rentfaster is like putting your resume into companies through Calgaryjobshop.ca.
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11-25-2012, 04:03 PM
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One of the Nine
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Rentfaster only costs the landlord. It's free for renters. I don't even bother posting places anywhere else except rentfaster, as it's only $25, and it's the main place renters look.
If looking on rentfaster has failed you as a renter, I'd go driving around the neighbourhood you're interested in, contrary to that stupid Hopewell commercial. I guess that applies more to people that are looking in high rental neighbourhoods, as single family homes in suburban neighbourhoods don't usually have a For Rent sign. But if you're looking in Marda Loop or any similar inner city area, just drive around and look for signs. I've had success doing that a few times.
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11-25-2012, 04:48 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: The wagon's name is "Gaudreau"
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I prefer posting on rentfaster, but I end up going both rentfaster and Kijiji (since Kijiji is free anyway). Had good success with both.
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11-25-2012, 07:20 PM
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Draft Pick
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Originally Posted by OffsideSpecialist
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I love padmapper, but its not long for this world. Padmapper has become big enough to get on Craigslist radar, and Craigslist will shut it down by lawsuit. If that avenue isn't successful, then Craigslist will improve its own site just enough with a inferior mapping interface to try to cripple Padmapper.
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