Meet RentJungle, a New Rental Search Site
There’s a new apartment-searching website out there—and it’s called RentJungle.com. If you’re familiar with Zillow.com, the home-value and price comparison website, you’ll recognize some of the same features in RentJungle.
RentJungle is where an apartment or rental home seeker can go to find a bunch of listings in one place. It’s like a Google search just for apartments and homes to rent. In fact, it’s linked up with Google Maps, so when an address or zip code is entered in the search window, a Google map pops up with markers showing each location.
RentJungle searches Craigslist.com, Apartments.com, ApartmentSearch.com, and more. Users can get the basics on each listing simply by clicking on the marker. If more information is desired, you can have it in an instant. If you want to take a look at the street outside the building, the map will show you that.
And RentJungle takes apartment searching into the social networking realm, by offering a Facebook application as well. Users can share their searches with their Facebook friends—or potential roommates. More and more people are using Facebook as their life portal, it seems, and find it far easier to share information and message friends and family solely through Facebook. If a group of friends are apartment hunting together, RentJungle’s Facebook application makes it easier to check out possibilities—without leaving your Facebook page or your home.
Finally, RentJungle pulls together and presents helpful resources like rent negotiation, renter’s insurance, moving companies, and market trends. It will be interesting to watch RentJungle and see how it grows. Check it out and see if your rental units are listed!