PadMapper - Apartment Rentals

A Google user

5 years ago

This service is difficult to use for landlords. there's no desktop-based way to post your rentals, no automatic verification process, and while it automatically posts your unit on other sites (like zumper), you can't manage your property on those other sites. this service doesn't offer anything new that countless other rental sites already offer. That said, its a stable app and it did give us some leads.

A Google user

5 years ago

It won't keep all the photos I upload. It randomly posts one or two out of the 8. Super frustrating. In the end, couldn't even get it to save any of my edits and the app sends me tons of emails a day trying to sell me on other posted apartments when all I want to do is post my own. Garbage app, stay away or try it if you love wasting time.

Robert Mroz

2 years ago

So far, terrible. I only got the app to list a room, not find one. I keep getting push notifications for the default search that happens when you first load the app, and there is no way to turn them off, without turning off all notifications. (Found them, had to open the email on desktop, and open the preferences). Update: after submitting documentation that I lived at my address, with several utility bills and my DL, they said I violated their ToS for no reason, and removed my listing. Waste.

Suzanne Fava

1 year ago

This is a horrible app. The notifications don't stop and there is nowhere in the app to turn them off. I am just deleting the app.

Christopher Wagner

1 year ago

It crashes every time I try to add photos to my listing. Then, when I think I've got photos ready, I tap to publish, but it says I'm not verified. I already went through the identification verification, and I see no place to try it again. I'm about ready to just post a link to my listing on Craigslist.

A Google user

6 years ago

Unable to post ad. App hangs on the 'verifying Facebook account' screen and never completes. Also you can search for places on the web but not post. Quite obnoxious to have to rewrite out the entire ad that I've already written or start transferring files around so that I can access text through google drive). Ultimately the main problem Is I can't actually post the unit for rent.

Ramona Peralta

1 year ago

I have truly had the best experience with pad mapper in finding a new home. The process was fast and convenient. I will be using pad mapper in the future to find my forever home to buy!!! Thank you.

Bonnie Dickson

3 years ago

This app looks nice and is a good way to compare what rental rates in your area are, but the functionality is lacking. I posted my condo for rent but PadMapper never completed the verification steps on their end so the listing never went live. Also, there isn't any way to delete your account. They only offer a "logout" option. Which is disappointing 😕.

Andrew Power

4 years ago

Clicking markers shows the same apartment again and again regardless of which marker is selected, even if they're not in the same area, have to hit the top left icon to actually view the available apartments in a list. Hitting the back button exits the app instead of returning to map, which is the most annoying part. The desktop site (and possibly the app) used to cover Kijiji listings but now doesn't seem to aggregate them, as there are hundreds of apartments not being listed on here.

Jimmy Li

4 years ago

In padmapper current state, it is unusable for creating listings. First, images either cannot be uploaded or are loaded in incorrect order. Second, editing the order is impossible as it will consistently say that your edits are unsuccessful. Third, if you even get to this point, posts that are successfully listed cannot be updated since it will break the whole post. Unfortunately, something on the backend has broken the app, and nothing for the past month and half has address these problems.

Devaj Chhibber

4 years ago

Really not useful. No one replied to me at all and there's way too many Airbnb ads which once you open they don't load properly. Zooming the map in and out is really sporadic and when you close a listing to look at the one next to it the map will zoom you like 8 city blocks away. And pressing the arrow keys to look at the next posting doesn't show you the next one ohsycially next to it but instead goes like an entire city over. But that's probably not possible to fix. Depends who posted first..?

D

2 years ago

Better than nothing i guess. Literally every listing is a different price on the first ad and once you click in. Lists as 1800 , you click in, studio apartment available for $2000. Wastes so much time. Why even have a filter. Also "populates" suggested listings and notifies you. Then when you click on the notification it says none can be found. Constantly prompts for email feedback rather than app store; anyone actually facing issues does that, meaning issues are hidden from Google Play store

St L

1 year ago

Wanted to rent out room in Newport Beach and account just got deleted over night. They took my ID info and everything. I guess I am not as profitable of a customer as the expensive apartment complexes. No way of teaching them either. If you click in feedback and whatsapp, the link is broken and you cannot go back.

Kevin LeBlanc

11 months ago

Tried multiple times to post a listing. It's impossible to do on the website. I had to try to make 3 different accounts, because it needed to verify my identity, which I did. And then it wouldn't let me log in, and once I finally supposedly posted my listing, I can't view it anywhere. It didn't even show up on the map, so I really doubt it even worked. I'm a programmer by trade. I know these technical issues weren't on my end. I did everything right, and it still failed miserably at every turn.

A Google user

5 years ago

It's not clear on how to get things listed. Emailing them for assistance takes a long time. Searching google to find help, and it showing their site with a way to get a pad posted, and to verify via Facebook and their security algorithm, wasn't valid. I couldn't find the verification stuff on the app. They need to update their methods and reply to emails within a better time frame.

A Google user

5 years ago

Good searching tool with some pet peeves: sometimes places say "no info" regarding pets, but when you check out padmapper in a browser, it says "no pets." also, my searches seem to get combined sometimes in ways I don't expect. often it can be hard to return to an original search. finally, the "check availability" button automatically sends a generic message to the listing poster on your behalf, which I did not know and wish I could more easily edit on the app - but otherwise, I like this app.

De Friday

2 years ago

There's literally no way to delete your account. Once your information is up, you cannot take it down. Even after completing their "forms." I downloaded it, and immediately regretted the decision as it 1. Does not let you view the property you clicked on from the vague search. 2. There's no way to search within your town. 3. Ads take up one quarter of your screen. 4. The vague search or map search isn't consistent, it will take you to view multiple properties from trying to view the one u want.