advertising rental help- criagslist seems to not be yielding the same interest as prior years

[Anonymous]

I'm having trouble renting my condo in Arlington- the location is great and I've rented it with no problems to various renters over the past 6 years. I've always used and had success with craigslist but this time I'm not getting nearly as much interest. I'm renting it for $50 more then previous years so I don't think price is an issue.

Any recommendations on where else I can advertise?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Maybe it's not moving because of time of year. Sorry, I have had a lot of success with CL. Usually price high and then I lower it til I find someone.

[Anonymous]

Price is the issue.

Right now the rental market is bad and no one is renting. Compared to last year, properties are sitting longer and rents are reduced. If you want it rented quickly drop your rent $100 per month.

[Anonymous]

Huh? Rental market is strong. Whatch u talkin bout Wills?

[Anonymous]

I have also read that the rental maket around here is tight and getting more expensive every month.

This article is a year old, but still: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/04/washington-d-c-renting-costs-among-highest-in-nation-report-says-74458.html

[Anonymous]

Urban Igloo handles this type of thing, I think.

[Anonymous]

do you have an actual email address listed? Do you have pictures???

[Anonymous]

Have you tried to rent it at this time of year before? I find that February is just about the worst month to rent out a place. Noone is renting and the prices are at their lowest. I actually think there is a few hundred dollar difference between May-June prices and Jan-Feb prices.

[Anonymous]

try http://www.zillow.com we got all our leads from that last year where as craigslist was terrible. Criagslist was good before that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do you have an actual email address listed? Do you have pictures???

I do have pictures but do have it set so that the email address is anonymous until I email them back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you tried to rent it at this time of year before? I find that February is just about the worst month to rent out a place. Noone is renting and the prices are at their lowest. I actually think there is a few hundred dollar difference between May-June prices and Jan-Feb prices.

I have tried renting it at this time of year three other times and have successfully had people in there by April 1 which the current lease ends at the end of March. Luck is not with me this time around.

I'll try zillow as well! thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:do you have an actual email address listed? Do you have pictures???

I do have pictures but do have it set so that the email address is anonymous until I email them back.

For reasons that I don't really understand, when I was renting our place and I had a craigslist anonymous email I had much less interest. When I changed it to a still anonymous, but not craigslist email (think [e-mail]) I had much more interest.

If you link to your add we could give more feedback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh? Rental market is strong. Whatch u talkin bout Wills?

+1

[Anonymous]

For reasons that I don't really understand, when I was renting our place and I had a craigslist anonymous email I had much less interest.

As someone who recently found a new rental, I can't tell you how many times I replied to the "Craigslist email" and got responses asking for sensitive personal and financial information. Bank account numbers, social security number, etc. Once they had that, they said they would tell me exactly where the listing actually was. I never knew there were so many Nigerian landlords in DC.

And folks, prices. They are way too high and the "fine print" in many of the adds says things like "available September 1st." It's March.

No one is going to give you two grand a month for the priviledge of living in your cellar or the ghetto, let alone both. Even the Nigerians understand that, you should, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

For reasons that I don't really understand, when I was renting our place and I had a craigslist anonymous email I had much less interest.

As someone who recently found a new rental, I can't tell you how many times I replied to the "Craigslist email" and got responses asking for sensitive personal and financial information. Bank account numbers, social security number, etc. Once they had that, they said they would tell me exactly where the listing actually was. I never knew there were so many Nigerian landlords in DC.

And folks, prices. They are way too high and the "fine print" in many of the adds says things like "available September 1st." It's March.

No one is going to give you two grand a month for the priviledge of living in your cellar or the ghetto, let alone both. Even the Nigerians understand that, you should, too.

This. There are a shitton of scams on craigslist, and it is discouraging real landlords and agents from posting their real listings. The real listing are co-opted by the scammers, replacing the real price with an artificially low one to generate a ton of interest, then the scammer has a whole bunch of people to try and dupe.