HotPads Rent Apartments

A Google user

4 years ago

This app is the best for Finding an apartment, but there could be a few improvements. Finally you can search by commute, but only from one place. I have two jobs, and I go to school. Being able to see the commute for all three would be amazing, but even just two would help narrow down the search, and keep my options a little more central to where I need to be. ALSO, PLEASE DEVELOPERS, FIND A WAY TO MARK AN APARTMENT AS CONTACTED. Zumper has a great example for this.

A Google user

4 years ago

makes it very easy to get in contact with properties. one flaw though is when you look at properties on their map, it could be off by about 8 blocks.. needs to be fixed. only noticed this with a couple places. Update: rental recommendations could be improved if they relate it to what you search for i.e. as a pet owner I don't need numerous places that don't allow pets.. pretty useless.

Gregory Utz

1 year ago

I have had some trouble landing an apartment from this app. But I can't blame the app. Sometimes the apartment went quickly other times I hadn't kept on top of the place I was looking for. Having said that. The app has been easy to use and I have only one suggestion. In the preset viewing inquiry text I think it should list the address of the property and not lock in the last address set by the user. Otherwise the app is great.

A Google user

5 years ago

This was my preferred app when searching for a new place. It's easy to navigate and great to use to contact places for viewings. The street view is helpful since some places that are nice on the inside but in sketchy areas and you get a holistic picture of where you'd be coming home to. Though I didn't use it, the feature that allows you to create an application and use it for multiple listings seems like a great idea. Highly recommend this app.

Eric Damm

2 years ago

For this last housing search, I used 4 different apps, but quickly found Hotpads to be the best, because it provides more info (including how many people are competing for any given property you'd like to rent). It also has a message center where you can keep track of all the places you contact, and monitor all the communications from various complexes and landlords. Looking for a new place can be a real bringdown, but Hotpads makes it fairly simple and straightforward. Highly recommended!

A Google user

4 years ago

I give this up five stars because it's very helpful very useful. The app is (almost) accurate. there's a few of the apartment listings, that was very misleading. They over exaggerate their property, to get you interested in their apartments, but when schedule an appointment to view the apartments, it's a big letdown, and you've wasted your time. "HotPads" needs to do a little bit more vetting of these listings. But other than that, I still think it's the best app for finding an apartment.

A Google user

5 years ago

I just downloaded this today. Within 30 minutes, I had two appointments set up. Super easy and someone messages you right away when you inquire about a rental property. i will say, however, i for some reason could only search city by city. i wish there was a way i could search the whole county at once for a place... could just be me that couldn't figure it out though, who knows. Other than that, this app made finding a place a lot easier than expected!!

Jillian

2 years ago

Easy to use and set preferences. I also just figured out that you can click the "trash" icon on the screen if you mo longer wish to have a property show up in your search. That way you're not weeding through all the places you already know you do not care for. I have been using this app for so long and only the other realized this, but I'm very happy! Thx hotpads!

A Google user

5 years ago

Its the best search app for rentals. However, it keeps sending me emails about apartments for $2,000 when my budget is $600. I did go in and change my preferences and hopefully it will be able to limit email notifications now. With some fiddling around I set my preferences to under $600, cats accepted.There was no save button to confirm afterwards. 1 result out of 314 listings...maybe I should move to a cheaper part of the country. This market is rough...not the developers fault, I know.

Laura O'Connell

1 year ago

I found my amazing rental house on hotpads! I love how the app is more user-friendly than any of the others I've seen. It's very easy to scroll around on the map each day and see the new rentals that meet your search criteria. It shows the new rentals in red and it shows your favorites in yellow and it shows the ones you've already looked at in grey.

A Google user

5 years ago

I like this app and would give it 5 stars except for one thing: their notifications. I keep getting notifications for "recommended" properties, which meet none of my search criteria. This wouldn't be so bad if the option to turn them off actually worked, but unfortunately that setting never, ever, ever sticks. I turn it off several times a week, only to suddenly begin getting bombarded with notifications I don't want again, and of course they are are magically turned on...again. Why?

Lauren Taylor

2 years ago

Where do I begin. I dont think I have ever shoved an app into peoples faces to quickly. What an amazing home search engine. I appreciate HotPads ability to search by price range, and their great messaging system to communicate with management. I was able to find a great home for me and my roommates that I couldnt find as easily anywhere else. Fantastic app. 0 downsides.

Amy Anderson

3 years ago

This definitely is helping me as I continue my apartment hunt and look for my next place to live. Overall it's pretty user friendly and easy to navigate. However, after my last search it saved completely different search settings and has started showing me options that are very far out of my price range. I have also started receiving notifications for places that are no longer available, which is a bit of a bummer.

Just North

1 year ago

It's good to know what's available and the app sends you notifications so you kind of get first dibs. However the management companies and property owners doesn't respond that often or at least not as fast as you expect but that's not the app fault. I recommend it especially with the feature that lets you just browse homes once you take down the border on the map that was definitely a bonus feature.

Carl Thomas

2 years ago

Decent UI. The barrage of recommendations notifications (that often are irrelevant to my searches) that are enabled by default are awful (and disabling them doesn't even do that). The inability to specify multiple areas also makes it instantly worse than searching on StreetEasy. However, the ability to exclude things in its filter, to look specifically for places accepting dogs, wins it a point.

J Sinnamon

2 months ago

It's not the perfect app, but it's super clutch. Twice in the past 5 years I've needed to transition from a relationship. HP has made it very easy both times. They can be better about demanding units taking accurate/up to date photos. But I know I can always count on HP to help me find somewhere to land, regardless of what state I end up in

spoon767

1 month ago

Good app but it has some critical misses. For one, there's almost no chance it will be able to find a particular unit if you type it's address. It's good at finding areas like towns and neighborhoods, but not particular spots. Secondly, messaging is broken. None of the messages show up on this app. I have to go on desktop or open a chrome tab on my phone. Finally, it would be nice to filter apartments by move in date.