where to find an apartment in PH, minus a broker

mh004g

We're hoping to stay in the area - looking for a nice landlord, preferably an owner occupied building, 2 bedroom apt. We're a friendly, financially secure couple.

Does anyone know where, other than craigslist, I might find something? We're finding a lot of things listed as PH that are on, for example, Albany Ave....

Thanks!

jay b

Rapid Realty. Just got a place here through them. No fee, decent location. They may try to sell you on a place that's way into Crown Heights, just tell them you know Brooklyn and that they are not to bring you too far past Washington Ave. I settled for a place on Classon in my price range.

mh004g

Did you find they were shady at all? I've read that they take your last months rent as a fee and sometimes don't inform the landlord. Also read that many of their places are bug/rodent infested. This is just hearsay on the boards of course...but with a kid we can't be messing around with infestations!

jah

I would advise against rapid as well.
You might want to check Lionel at http://www.bkapartments.com
he sometimes has stuff over there and there is no fee and he does not "mis- list" neighborhoods. if it says PH it is definitely PH.

armchair_warrior

i wouldn't do rapid realty. they just take the listing of landlords off craigs list.

vanilla

ask all your friends and family if they know of apt's. friends and family are the way to go - or armchair!

santa

i got my place through rapid realty but paid a fee.

wouldnt use them again but love the apt.

armchair_warrior

thanks vanilla .


i usually would post on here and cl when things come free. surprisingly only 1 vacancy for this year. and one of the tenants told their friends about it and they came and took it.

brooklynleather

Rapid Realty is so fucking annoying. Anytime I explain to them specific streets I would live within or what I am looking for, they still wake me to a railroad basement apartment in east Flatbush. Then they hustle you into a car and to the next place and you have to be like "NO! I will NOT see another shitty apartment!"

On the bright side, my friends found a dope 3 bedroom in a victorian house in Kensington through them for 1850 a few years back. Anything is possible, just not my luck.