Rental listing on Craigslist

[kap]

Is it a better idea than Westsiderental.com? How should I go about it? I am trying to help a friend who is a landlord in Monrovia, CA. TiA

Kap

[BigGuynRusty]

It is free.
You get what you pay for.


BGnR

[ho'ard]

Agree with BGnR.
Depending on the area there may be so many listings that you will have to be prepared to cancel and repost your listing about every second day for it to be useful.

[RgrF]

Westside Rentals is nothing but a computer program and a poorly constructed one at that. (thought you wuz that Monrovia landlord Kap).
All you're looking for are responses you can screen, so the source (aside form cost) is probably irrelevent. Use all the free stuff you have time to do. The Recycler comes to mind.

[kap]

Yes, I am also a landlord. However, I have quite a few friends who are as well. When I was a renter, people I knew were also renters. Is it birds of a feathers flock together effect?

Kap


RgrF Wrote:
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> Westside Rentals is nothing but a computer program
> and a poorly constructed one at that. (thought you
> wuz that Monrovia landlord Kap).
> All you're looking for are responses you can
> screen, so the source (aside form cost) is
> probably irrelevent. Use all the free stuff you
> have time to do. The Recycler comes to mind.
>
>

[joycee]

My dad had 10 new duplex units to lease last fall. I took a few photos and made a nice ad for craigslist and got several responses in the few days that the ad was up. One of them was a military guy being transferred to the area from another state. I hooked him up with my dad and he rented the place sight unseen just from my ad. I really didn't know how the ad would go, since this city isn't a major craigslist city, but I'd sure give it a shot, Kap. It worked well when I tried it. As others said, it's free, so you don't have much to lose.

[kap]

Thanks for tips, joycee. My friend has the ad in L.A. Times, I will ask her to take some pictures.

Kap

joycee Wrote:
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> My dad had 10 new duplex units to lease last fall.
> I took a few photos and made a nice ad for
> craigslist and got several responses in the few
> days that the ad was up. One of them was a
> military guy being transferred to the area from
> another state. I hooked him up with my dad and he
> rented the place sight unseen just from my ad. I
> really didn't know how the ad would go, since this
> city isn't a major craigslist city, but I'd sure
> give it a shot, Kap. It worked well when I tried
> it. As others said, it's free, so you don't have
> much to lose.
>
>
> I've tried to quit, but I just can't get the
> teflon monkey off my back. ~ ka jowct

[viaripatti]

My family uses CL in the SF Bay Area for Rental listings in Santa Cruz with very good luck.

FYI: Here in CA, the ONLY time a landlord has any power is in the initial decision about which rentor is best. And we take our time; even going through a rent check to get just the right tenant. After that, we are considered money-grubbing, slum lords in any legal dispute and potential rat-bag rentors know this and every rule about this. So take your time renting, landlords. DON'T GET ME STARTED!! :-)

We have wasted a LOT of money with newspaper ads, and CL seems to work better for getting a wider audience