Reviews for HotPads Rent Apartments

I wish there was a way Hotpads would REQUIRE the Renters to specify what kind of parking is available with the unit in their ad. They keep using the term "off-street" parking available. They should specify if it is a parking lot, garage or public street parking. The term off street parking allows them to mask whether there are parking spaces available or not. Sometimes they refer to off street meaning you won't have to park on the street and other times it means city street parking.

I honestly really love this app! It's beyond accurate! I get all the same listings as all the other places including rooms for rent! I do wish they still had the for sale listings option but love it either way. You can look via list view or map view. Which is my favorite because then I can see what areas the apartments are in! Filters are super great too! Some listings even will say if there is a move in special too! Which is pretty cool!

Better than other realty apps. The listings here tend to be more detailed and the advanced filtering options are a plus. They let you remove specific listings from your feed too, which is great for me as I have lots of search alerts set up and get tons of listings each day, so it's easier to clean it up once Ive gone through it.

The best app for finding a rental. All the info is right on the listing so you won't need to click each one to see if your drive time is doable. Square feet, pet policy, etc is right there. I also used 5 other sites but none were as easy to use. You are able to also quickly click on "map" to easily view the satellite image of the property. In my case it was important to have grass for our dog in the yard- in the desert some yards are literally rocks.

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.

I find the app very useful, compared with other rental apps. I have found HotPads to be more up to date with the listing, and the information details are more accurate than most similar apps. I would like it if I could add a filter to include or exclude areas in my searches. Am still looking for a 2bd x (1 or 2 bath) it has been frustrating. The HotPads app has made things a little bit easier.

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

There's a surprising number of options for what I was originally looking for. Trying to move, especially when you're new to the area, is difficult. At least for me. But this makes it a bit easier because you can contact the seller, they all usually email or message you back pretty quickly, and you can find something that's in your price range.

It fails to adequately find any rentals in your price range, with prices being 3-400$ higher than the listed price. Oftentimes you message people and they dont even know their listing is on hotpads or what hotpads is. The prices are always wrong, and the amenities are 90%of the time incorrect. It crashes often, especially when looking at messages. Worst app ever, tbh.

I would give no stars if I could. Don't waste your time and money! You pay the fees and never get a response from the property manager. The background/credit check required by landlords is not good for all listings on hotpads as stated. Each landlord/property management company requires additional, high fees and they can't access the reports you pay for through hotpads. I feel hotpads is a scam and I want my application fee back, as I got absolutely NOTHING for my $90. A total rip off. BEWARE!!

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.

Nice, but a few serious problems. For one, and it may be abuse by listers, is that every few days i get alerts for a "new" listing which isn't new and if "updated" there's certainly no change been made to the listing. More recently, I've been seeing a lot of new listings with no photos, but the same property on a Zillow has photos. Seems like your scraping or sharing process with Zillow isn't capturing the photos. While I prefer HotPads' presentation, I may have to switch to Zillow.

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.

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!

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!

Its a really good app, generally has more/newer listings than other apps. Everything is nicely laid out and easy to read/use. My only complaint is that there isn't a separate option for small dogs or large dogs (i have a large dog); since its lumped into one option (dogs allowed), it tends to be rather time consuming to look through to find which listings are right for me.

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.

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?

During my search for a place, Hotpods was superb in sending me different places for rent as soon as they were listed. I was able to customize the search to fit my budget, The app is easy to use, they would let you know when a listing was no longer on the market, even encouraged me not to be dismayed and check to see if you heard back from the ones that were contacted. I love this app. Thank you Hotpods, you are a cut above the rest.

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!!