How to rent a normal apartment or a room in St. Petersburg: a personal experience

Reader Layfhakera Alex Yng shared in his blog, personal experience, how to remove a normal apartment or a room in St. Petersburg. Layfhaker publishes an article with the author's permission.

Task: To find adequate housing in St. Petersburg

Vocabulary

• bad option - uncomfortable apartment, or something it's not.
• cool option - what you are looking for. Meets your needs.
• other browser - additional web browser, which is not used for work or leisure and will be open only to search for apartments.
• adequate neighbor - the person with whom you can comfortably live in one apartment.
• ad source - a resource, which publishes ads from property owners.

Key observations

• Almost the entire center - the old fund, so a lot of bad options. Search from two weeks to a month cool option - this is normal.
• cool options can be found without an agent.
• At search time is necessary to keep track of all the new options every day to cool option not passed by.
• Everything ad sources should be reduced in other browserTo check each time only one place. Thus you do not mix the search for an apartment with work or other things.
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• Check other browser It needs about twice a day: from 10 to 11 am and 14-15 hours during the day.
• If the main goal - to live in a great place, it can be seen not only odnushki, but also the room or dvushki (treshki), because you can always find adequate neighbor.

My original data

1. Only the center of the bridge and is not very far from the Nevsky Prospekt.

2. Walking distance to the subway 10 minutes.

3. For comfortable stay of two people.

4. Good neat repairs or improvements to the possibility of independent apartment at the expense of the lessor.

5. We consider the following options:

• odnushka from 35 sq. m;
• Studio 30 sq. m;
• dvushka 50 sq. m;
• room of 20 square meters. m kopeck piece, or a maximum of three rubles;
• treshka 70 sq. m.

action Driving

1. Find all ad sources.
2. IN other browser create tabs with customized sources.
3. Open other browserseveral times during the day, looking every sobyavleniyami tab.
4. If you come across a contender for cool optionThen immediately contact the contact person and arrange a viewing.

On my experience in St. Petersburg Rating sources as follows:

1. Avito.ru.
2. Thematic Group in VK.
3. friendrent.ru.
4. vkrent.ru.
5. spb.thelocals.ru.
6. stopagent.ru.

adjustment ad sources in other browser

In my case, the main browser - Google Chrome. therefore other browser will act Safari. In it you need to configure all the tabs that are loaded when you open the browser. Close the browser only needs using Cmd + Q. To each new discovery opens all of the tabs, you need to settings Safari opens with specify All windows from last session.

1. Avito.ru

In Avito St. Petersburg - the largest provider of normal ads, but it will be useful only when you set up all of the filters.

Set up filters in the apartment:

1. We go to the branch: All listings in St. Petersburg / Real Estate / Apartments / Rent / For long term.

2. Select the desired subway station (in my case it's 16 central metro stations).

3. On each tab, configure the following filters:

4. After pressing the "Find" button to activate the "Private".

Tab 1. Odnushki to 30 thousand rubles

Tab 2. Studio up to 30 thousand rubles

Tab 3. Kopeck piece up to 40 thousand rubles

Tab 4. Treshka to 40 thousand rubles

Set up filters in the room:

1. We go to the branch: All listings in St. Petersburg / Real Estate / Rooms / Rent / For long term.

2. Select the desired subway station (in my case it's 16 central metro stations).

3. On each tab, configure the following filters:

4. After pressing the "Find" button to activate the "Private".

Tab 5. Room in dvushke

Tab 6. A room in a three rubles

As a result, we get six tabs configured filters.

2. Thematic Group in VK

"VKontakte" a lot of groups in which the fast real ads, so you first need to find not to check those groups for these groups, and then bring all ads from them to a single tape, separately.

Who are these groups relevance:

• vk.com/saitarendy;
• vk.com/public57466174;
• vk.com/ideal.kvartirant;
• vk.com/antiagentstvoru.

7 tab. Group in VK

Where we turn to show only our "apartment group" to bring them into one convenient tape, you need to "My News" to create a separate group:

Flat call newsgroup and leave the tab open 5 in this tape:

Thus we get a news feed for ads from these groups. To find a class variant, will have to scroll the tape down and catches the eye of the options, such as for the metro station.

3. Services

tabs 8-9

• friendrent.ru;
• vkrent.ru.

These two services accumulate ads for VK. Sometimes come across options with the tab 5, but in general there are other ads, and completely different. Rarely get normal, but they should be kept in mind.

4. Subscription to new ads

tab 10

• spb.thelocals.ru;
• stopagent.ru.

These services, in spite of their great disadvantages, there is a cool plus - subscription of new objects for the filters. That is, putting filters on these sites, you can subscribe to all new objects to these filters. Thus, you no longer have to visit these sites, because if something is there and will be, necessary to you, it will come in the mail. Thus, the tab 10 takes place the web version of your address with which you sign up for updates.

Notices that come in the mail:

Summarizing

Opening the browser like tabbed browsing, you're getting a clean selection of relevant ads to you, so as not to waste time on bad options. Saving time is available, and a chance to find cool option increases in times, as all the cool ads can go through you.

P. S. This article was born when eaten on a search for the dog of the apartment. I hope that at least one searcher it will be useful.

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