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- cmdrwhitewolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Knowledge, the one weapon lot's of business owners have, but *don't* want their customers to have...
- champs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14... or landlords could realize that their rent is too low and charge more. This one cuts both ways.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Location is often a large part of rent. It's the most important thing besides size.
For example, if you live near trains, your rent tends to be lower. It also tends to be lower if you live under a flight line near an airport. - drakonite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If it's a college town, the cost of rent will rise dramatically the closer you get to the campus.
- mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why did you digg before using it?
- satishev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Gotta love the 'Digg' effect message they have up.
- stevetures, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5same for san francisco
- tobyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I live in Brooklyn, so yeah, I'm paying too much.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6try this and get stabbed by your landlord.
- newbill123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's also the issue of crime. A property that rents for what the government will subsidize in my area is unattractive if you don't have a subsidy. Crime near government owned or government subsidized housing is statistically higher regardless of how the property is maintained.
No place is secure from crime, but a landlord who charges $50 more per month than the subsidy can add a lot to what the community perceives as value of their property. And perceived value is what the rental game is all about. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Your monthly rent is much lower than the average rent in your area. Your unit seems to be a great deal!
This thing searches a little too wide. I live on the ***** side of town, but my zip code includes the nice side of town (small town). Rent on that end of town is 4x what it is over here. This is all 50+ years old and run down (and right next to a Shell refinery. Literally. I'm only a block away from it), while that side of town is all brand new. - Infideler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, my location doesn't exist. I'll try to exist again later.
- molsen311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this is stupid. it doesn't take into account anything but location. what about quality of the property itself? ammenities? lakeview?
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3merreborn - did you put in your FULL zip?
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I know for a fact that many of the rental units in my area are pretty crappy compared to the apartment I'm in. Is it really all that accurate to rank your apartment to seemingly comparable apartments?
- becominglumberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can say that for any nice neighborhood. I pay at least $200/mo more than I have to to live in my city, but it puts me a nice apartment with some good restaraunts, concerts ever wednesday of the summer, great landscaping, and lots of statues around. I consider it a charge for better surroundings.
- chownrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Great idea, but they need to add criteria for utilities (included or not). I'll definitely check it out next time I'm apartment hunting.
- MrSidnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sorry buddy, that doesnt help here. =|
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone who is renting in London is automatically paying too much. For example, a studio apartment will cost £180-200 per week. Council tax is £100 per month. 1 bedroom apartments are £220 - 300 a week. Just insane.
- Universal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now if they only showed the address of the other places being compaired, in case someone wants to check that place out for themselfs, in person.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's somewhat difficult to get right, since CL data is very poorly (read: completely non-) formatted. I'm currently working on a CL mining project at work.
- runningapathy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stop Whining. Just bookmark the damn thing & come back to it on some other week, once all the attention has ebbed.
- bradley.holt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks to me as if the data is mined from craigslist. Can anybody confirm this?
- Teratogen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Definitely NOT gonna show this to my landlady
- jonahan52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Couldn't find data in your zip...check back next week. Well I guess my landlord hasn't checked the site yet.. whew!
- ryos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now, this is not important, but I think if my place existed in the database it will help. Just a thought...
I think they should let you type in an email address so when the address does make into the database the user gets a notification. - kaje, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I never see a price difference based on location (I'm sure this is different in larger cities). The main thing that determines rent pricing here is the quality of the apartments or how new they are.
- joerod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is a great site. even though its not offical numbers it still gives a pretty good idea of the going market. the mean rental price of my apt in Astoria Queens is , $1300 for a one bedroom... I love NY!
- JoeyMalinowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can't find that place...try again.
- oscotto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Boy is that site being hammered, I can't view it at all
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@oswhatever:
The thing is, small towns usually have a single zip code. In sparsely populated areas, a zip code can cover groups of counties, groups of towns, etc. It's not like in Dallas where I can get on the highway and cross 4 zip codes in 30 minutes. - eric0213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Put in an address near you. Down the block, the next street over?
- newbill123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope tools like this catch on. I'm trying to help a family member rent apartments in a house he owns, but according to previous tenants the place is haunted. While I don't buy into stories like that, if you do reasearch in county records and old newspaper stories (or websites of previous tenants) you will find that the previous owners were brutally murdered by their housekeeper so these stories do wind up scaring people away. The place looks really nice after rennovation, and tools like this may help tenants outside the area sign more quickly without trying to "get to know" the community first.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -1/+2I thought craigslist strictly prohibits data mining?
- sv650touring, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@BobOrleans
I laughed either way, but whose nuts? - edrift101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Paying about the right amount for the location. $1200 for 3 bedrooms in Uptown.
- MrSidnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea it would be nice to find out what other places in the area are charging. Simplified? I think this webapp is oversimplified.
- drakonite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no, it's not
A 'comparible' apartment with one hard to see flaw may be worth nothing compared to the better apartment. Even if two apartments are identical with the only exception being some mold issues by the hot water heater (something you'd never know without being there and looking), that one 'little' problem can make an apartment not worth crap. - sv650touring, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@atarieric
Are you saying you can cover 20 miles in 30 minutes in LA? I can't do that in Sarasota, but our zips are much more densly packed than one every five miles.
BTW, I have the lowest rent of ANYONE I know, and it said that my house (a dump) should be nicer than my neighbors, or I'm paying too much. - HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol - halted at 404 diggs and dug out.
- monkeysteps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1really need square footage and other things, although the system wouldn't have access to the facts...my 800sq/ft 1 bedroom 1940s apartment is much different then the 1100 sq/ft 1 bedroom newer apartments that dominate my area. Nonetheless, I still know i'm getting a good deal.
- keldawgyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2mirror: http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Are_you_paying_too_much_rent/
it's slow... - ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can cross six-to-eight ZIPs in 15 minutes in Austin. No need to go to Dallas for that.
- scottsd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0would like to see the pushpins color-coded by rent, so you can get a feel for where the most expensive rent is; also clusters of the same color could show you an expensive area
- RentNewTampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OK... pretty cool tool, in fact, with a little more tweaking it would be a great tool to add to my property management website... it is a bit of an oversimplification though, as the size of the place is dictated by more then the number of bedrooms. The size in square feet is usually a better determination of "value" in suburban homes. The impact of the number of bathrooms and garages, whether or not there is a pool on the property or in the community, etc, are also a factor in price. Of course, the simplicity of this tool is part of the charm, so it does not need much work in my honest opinion. The real question I have is where does the data come from, how is it updated and can the tool be improved to address some of the limitations?
- AtariEric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@popfrogs:
4 zips in 30 minutes? Come to L.A. - it's practically 1 zip code every five miles or so, here. - Dugdale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It appears that they are pulling the data from Oodle.com which is the way I would do it also. Kind of funny that Oodle the scrapping site is being scrapped.
- kelek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seems to be difficult to use in areas with low income housing (i.e., must earn less than $x/yr), such as places in the Bay Area. If that could be turned on/off, it would be great, and provide a much better gauge of how good or bad your deal is.
- esteron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0test
- rvanscherpe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice tool! Check it out when you plan to rent in an area!
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