Landlord comments--college areas in Worcester

Submitted by jpm01609 t3_1174mdt in WorcesterMA

Landlord of 20 years in Worcester here

After 15+ years with Craigslist, when I was advertising this time last year on Craigslist I gotted "flagged" regularly. It was a total joke.. I could literally place an ad on Craigslist last year and have it flagged within MINUTES. As the "seller" I expect that ad to work for me ie be there 24/7. Craigslist is not a reliable place.

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I was putting up the same kind of ads I always put up. Pretty dry information really.

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That's when I switched to Zillow. I had to pay, but the QUALITY of folks was much, much better.

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Generally I avoid the Telegram (sorry, T and G) and signs on the building.

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I want a prospective tenant to actually READ my ad and decide for him/herself whether they wish to reply.

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WHen I read Craigslist ads now, I see a lot of unrealistic ads. These are total scam. I feel badly for all these nice people who get taken in by "too good to be true" Craigslist deals on cars/apartments etc.

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Zinski t1_j9a8k7s wrote

What's funny is this reads like some kind of AI spam.

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DaPoole420 t1_j9a261k wrote

I thought craigslist was for hookers, you can get apartments too? Oh joy

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[deleted] t1_j9aya2s wrote

Craigslist used to be good years ago before apps, smartphones and social media superseded it. Now most of what’s left are scammers. I’ll even go there once in a while for the sole purpose of flagging suspicious apartment ads. Hopefully yours wasn’t one of them, but they have to be pretty sketchy looking for me to flag them and a ton of them are.

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jpm01609 OP t1_j9eq8a9 wrote

when I was a renter or buyer, I look up the in the city/town records and ask if the person who wrote the ad is "so and so" and usually it is someone who is "working for the United Nations in Nigeria" or some other fake response.....this happens on apartments, cars, etc--not just housing

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munchieman21 t1_j9an3cr wrote

Any one bed rooms available around June first?

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yennijb t1_j9ilx2b wrote

Landlord of 8 years, I've never paid for my apartments to be listed on Zillow, or are you talking about buying ads/sponsoring them?

Facebook Marketplace, Zillow, Padmapper, Hotpads, Apartments .Com, and the MLS are where my apartments go. I've never had an issue finding qualified tenants from those and haven't paid a dime to list on any of them.

Craigslist's been dead for years, even pre-covid people were barely using it because of all the scams.

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