San Francisco Apartments
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San Francisco apartments vary widely, but finding an apartment to rent in San Francisco is no longer the agonizing task it was during the dot.com heyday. Prices are still quite steep for the amount of space you get, but there is an abundance of space, primarily due to the exodus that occurred after the bubble burst in 2000. Here’s our guide to rental services in San Francisco available to use for locating a new apartment.
Craigslist
Without a doubt the most popular and commonly used avenue to go down when looking for San Francisco apartments. Under the Housing category on their front page, you will find a number of sub-categories to search in for what you’re looking for, including Apartments/Housing, Rooms/Shared, Sublets/Temporary, Housing Wanted, Housing Swap, and Vacation Rental, to name a few. You’ll find tons of listings of Bay Area availabilities in each category, all of which can be put in order according to the neighborhood you’re searching in. Each listing includes price, a description of the space, and an email contact, and many now contain pictures. Craigslist is free to use, and is a good way to go if you need to advertise a room to rent in your apartment or home.
San Francisco Apartments: Metro Rent
“For over 20 years, the fastest and easiest way to find rentals or roommates.” There are two types of membership available at Metro Rent: a free membership and a premium membership. The free membership allows you to search about a third of the listings, as well as create and save custom searches and see photos, maps, and floorplans of available spaces. The premium membership is $45 and allows you to access all rental listings and search the database according to various types of criteria. You can also get credit reports, tips on filling out rental applications, and help with finding the rental of your dreams.
San Francisco Apartments: SF4Rent
SF4Rent.com is an incredibly easy rental search site to use. Make selections from the front page on rental size (studio, one bedroom, etc), location (SF, Bay Area at large), unit type (private rental or roommates), and rental price amount, click the Search button, and whammo—you’re presented with tons of daily listings to investigate. You can also search according to limited neighborhoods (i.e. very specific neighborhoods) and pet options. You can list a rental, check out profiles of entire houses for rent, and get info on credit reports.
Apartments.com: San Francisco
This site resents visitors with a map of the Bay Area on its front page. From there you can click on the area you want search for an apartment in (areas to search include SF, the East Bay, San Jose/Silicon Valley, and more), and then from there narrow your results according to neighborhood. After you click on the neighborhood you’re interested in living in, you then narrow even further by price (minimum and maximum rent), number of bedrooms, and type of housing (furnished and unfurnished apartments, short-term, condo/townhouse/duplex/rental home, etc). All rental listings include a full description of the property, contacts for inquiries, and in many cases, photographs. Additional moving resources at apartments.com include roommate finders, truck rental help, and moving quotes.
Rent.com: San Francisco
Rent.com is a free apartment rental listing service with a unique premise—find a place to live through them and they’ll send you $100! Create your account and begin searching for accommodations in not only San Francisco, but nearby cities like Oakland and Berkeley as well. You can also list an availability you have in your home or apartment. Be sure to drop by the Moving Center for information on renter’s insurance, truck rentals, connecting your phone service once moved in, and finding a new job in the Bay Area.
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