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Thought I'd take a stab at starting a thread which might be of benefit to many on the forum:
Post links to websites and other resources for those looking for the ever elusive "safe, affordable" NYC apartments.
OK, I'll start with one--more to come.
On Rent.com, there are listings for Queens apts newly renovated that seem very reasonable and well located. If you register, they will e-mail you updated listings. Definitely worth a look-see!
As a newly arrived - non-broker listings (ie. fee free) nybits: NY Bits - New York apartments, buildings and neighborhoods (http://www.nybits.com - broken link)
Sure a lot of them are the luxury buildings but they have a couple of managers who do walkups and cover a lot of NYC besides Manhattan. Sorts things out between rental buildings with links to the relevant websites as well as those for managers.
One more no-fee website. Its a little less discriminating than NY Bits as a number of the no fee apartments are managed rental apartments but when you ask the management company (or the doorman who will tell you) they send you to a broker who then requires a fee. Urban Sherpa – New York City’s #1 No-Fee Rental Apartment Source
If you're looking in the outer boroughs it may be worth looking on neighborhood blogs. For instance, if you're looking in Astoria, a good place to try might be the classifieds and apartments forum on astorians.com .
May neighborhoods have online forums and blogs that cater to those already living in the neighborhood - this might be a good inside way of finding something.
google has a blog search here Google Blog Search
just type in the name of the neighborhood, such as "park slope" and at the top of the search results you will see the main blogs that focus on park slope.
[Site name removed due to spam] and UrbanSherpa both interesting sites, thanks to posters for pointing them out. The search for "safe, affordable" is especially grueling and heartbreaking for people with pets. Just ran a search of 6 neighborhoods of interest on UrbanSherpa (which I guess only covers Manhattan), with max rent $1800 for a 1BR (low, I know, for Manhattan) and filtered for pets. Grand total: 1 result. Took off the pets filter and got 60 results. :'( (To date I have not been applying any pet filters because it's too difficult for that data to be filtered accurately, but I just thought I'd check.)
Last edited by bmwguydc; 07-01-2013 at 10:16 AM..
Reason: Spam problem
Please keep in mind NO FEE apts are usually Higher Priced rent and/or there is something undesirable about the apt/building, yet people are so quickly drawn into the words no fee. For example a No Fee apt that is priced at $2500 could have been rented with a broker at $2100.
So essentially if you went "no fee" you're paying an extra $4800 a yr
If you rented with a broker at lets say 12% commission you would have paid a fee of $3024.
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