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The comments below are unedited opinions of the colleagues who submitted them. A date (month and year) indicates that the comments following that date are from the given month and year. The most recent comments appear at the bottom.
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11/98
| *** try the real estate café, 6614046. They have a web site. email: bwendel@realestatecafe.com *** In the past we found school listings (e.g, bulletin boards at Harvard, Brandeis, Tufts, and other schools in the area) were very good. Some formal listings for the schools require ID to access the info, but most do not. Some landlords who do not want to pay for the Globe listings (which are expensive) place adds this way. *** Have you tried www.bostonapartments.com? I found it very useful, but I was just looking to find a single open room. I'm not sure how helpful it would be for your situation, but it might be worth a peek. If you're looking for a 1BR with two offstreet parking spots, you're going to need all the help you can get! *** There is a service called no_fee_appartments.com, however, I'm not so sure I can recommend them. My girlfriend and I used them for the same areas in which you have expressed interest without much success. Basically you pay $150 and they email you daily with listings of no finders fee apartments in the communities and with the requirements you specify. The fee is a one time fee and the service lasts until you find a place. The rub is that the "communities" are broadly defined and you wind up with listings from places like Salem, Revere, and Saugus because, like Arlington, they lie within route 128. I had the service for from June to Sept. and received maybe 510 listings that were anywhere near what we were looking for. Note that this may have due to the fact that we had some relatively specific requirements and were looking at a peak time. *** You're definitely correct in that the Globe isn't gonna fly.....try the local TAB newspapers for the communities of interest. *** you could try (I think) www.bostonapartments.com for possiblities *** Trey, you should try the listings at Harvards housing office (you need to have an alum accompany you, or else borrow an alums id they don't have pics.) also try Tufts equivalent of a housing office. I found that the Harvard office had a lot of good listings, but they can be out of date. Also, stick with the globe, I found both of my apartments through the globe, but they were through a realtor so I had to pay a realtors fee. *** I've lived in three apartments in the Somerville area and have found that the best way to find a place is to stay in touch with several realtors at once. I usually find the names of realtors from the Globe, and then make a practice of calling each realtor about once a week to find out if they have any new listings I might be interested in. (Saturday and Friday are good days to call because it is right before the Sunday paper has come out). It's a labor intensive method, but finding an apartment (at least in Somerville) has been very difficult because there just isn't much turnover from year to year. As a result, it's often hard to find a place more than a month/a few weeks in advance. Don't get discouraged. You'll find a great place, you just may have to search and search. *** I think you'll have to suck it up and pay a realtor the one-month fee... it's been a really tight market the past 3 years. I've gotten 2 apartments with John Lowenstein (Red Line Real Estate), who I think has the best selection of Porter and Davis Sq places. 776 7335, office in davis square past carberry's. *** My wife and I got lucky by finding a posting in Porter/Davis Square by the owner (no fee!). With 2 cars and a cat, I'm guessing Belmont and Arlington would probably have better selection... *** You should go directly to real estate agents dealing with rentals. You may have to pay a finder's fee, but that is how I have had the most luck. | |||||||||||||||