I’m happy to announce our newly released map-based apartment search! Location-based searching for apartments has been a personal favorite feature of mine from the very beginning of RentHop’s days. We have always believed that Craigslist listings simply lack enough structured data for useful and rich mechanisms. While the Craigslist loose-form posting makes life slightly simpler for the landlord, it also opens the door for the deluge of fake and obfuscated listings we see today.
Even though RentHop has begun allowing small landlords to post their listings, we have removed all the usual incentives for unscupulous posts:Â any listing without a real address will not show properly on the search, we sort listings based on the completeness of data (photos, amenities enumerated, full contact information, etc), and most importantly no one visiting Rent Hop plans to pay a broker fee!
For listing on our map, we only show the buildings that contain geo-encodable addresses. Posting containing vague locations such as “Studio in the West 50s” won’t show up properly in search results. We have revamped the entire original map-search to include much faster search logic, a more intuitive navigation interface, and compatibility with more browsers.
Feel free to give map-based apartment search a try!
