Budget-Celebration-1 t1_j56w1ek wrote on January 20, 2023 at 8:36 PM

Reply to comment by imdoingmyroutine in How far outside of the city do you have to be for rental broker fees become less prevalent? by typicalfanofsports

You know I always hear you no broker fee folks mention Craigslist. I use Zillow etc as a landlord and tried Craigslist in the past. I’ll never use it again. It’s full of scams and the leads generated have been nothing but crap. My recommendation to you and anyone who reads this is to look at the other more common sites as well. You don’t need to be a broker to post there.

purplepineapple21 t1_j5726mq wrote on January 20, 2023 at 9:15 PM

Craigslist isn't even full of fee-free listings if you can get past all the scams. Plenty of listings on there still have brokers fees--in fact most of the legitimate listings for a whole apartment do, at least for places in the city proper and Cambridge/Somerville. The no fee options that arent scams are mostly people renting out single rooms in shared apartments. Since some other sites don't allow that type of listing, it can seem like Craigslist has more no fee options, but that's not the case if you're looking at only whole apartments.

I've found great places on Craigslist and I think it's a fine site to use, but it's absolutely not the fee-free haven I see some people on here make it out to be. If you know the area and the market imo it's pretty easy to weed out the scams, but then what you're left with still have brokers fees as much as any other site.