My boyfriend and I are moving from Boston to Brooklyn in June. I called Rapid three weeks ago to schedule an appointment to see some places and told the agent what we were looking for (size, price range, location, etc.). The agent seemed to understand... but when we finally met, he had either forgotten what I told him, or he just didn't care. We saw only four places (after waiting 25 minutes for him to get his stuff together in the office); one was way out of our budget, one was tiny and had no bathroom sink, and two were dirty and in dumpy, unsafe neighborhoods. To make matters worse, he had no information about the areas or buildings, could not tell us what utilities were included, and was basically clueless. You would think that he would have been prepared with three weeks notice! After two hours of getting nowhere, we ended up walking into Ideal Properties. Two hours later, we had picked a lovely place within our price range, and in a great neighborhood. It's a shame that we hadn't found Ideal sooner!
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