My boyfriend and I were recently looking to move from the east village to park slope. We saw that Rapid Realty handled many ""No Fee"" apartments. The fact is they take some no fee apartments that are not very nice or in poor areas and show you those, when you dislike they place they show you others that have a fee but don't bother to mention that until after you are filling out paperwork and putting a deposit down on a place. However for us that part didn't even matter- we were willing to pay a fee- but even after we put a deposit down and got cashiers checks from the bank, we found out that they didn't even take the apartment off the market and it had been showed and rented by another broker!!! The entire process was mishandled and we lost a good apartment because of it. My advice is to either go with a real broker who is going to work to help you or go directly to the landlords yourself. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE WITH RAPID REALTY.
Cons: unapologetic waste of my time
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