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How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco


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2016 Aug 28, 5:38pm   2,096 views  5 comments

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https://www.dataquest.io/blog/apartment-finding-slackbot/

Boston is cold, but finding an apartment in SF is scary We read that landlords hold open houses, and that you have to bring all of your paperwork to the open house and be willing to put down a deposit immediately to even be considered. We started exhaustively researching the process, and figured out that a lot of finding an apartment comes down to timing. Some landlords want to hold an open house no matter what, but for others, being one of the first people to see the apartment usually means that you can get it. You eneed to find...

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1   marcus   2016 Aug 28, 7:53pm  

Very cool.

2   mmmarvel   2016 Aug 28, 7:58pm  

My wife came up with an idea (she can come up with ideas). If I were a tenant who was moving out, I'd place a craiglist ad saying I was moving out, the apartment is in such and such area. It's a 2 bedroom (or whatever) and the other features and we're moving out around time frame X. Give me $50 (or whatever) and I'll fill you in on the exact address, the owners name and when I'm moving out. Otherwise, you're out there with the masses.

3   marcus   2016 Aug 28, 8:40pm  

mmmarvel says

Give me $50 (or whatever) and I'll fill you in on the exact address, the owners name and when I'm moving out. Otherwise, you're out there with the masses.

I'm not sure that idea is all that new. I think back in the day, in rent controlled parts of new york people would work even more elaborate schemes to help people get in on a good apartment deal. Imagine. Rent control ? In a decent area ? What a concept.

4   Allah the devil   2016 Aug 28, 8:56pm  

mmmarvel says

My wife came up with an idea (she can come up with ideas). If I were a tenant who was moving out, I'd place a craiglist ad saying I was moving out, the apartment is in such and such area. It's a 2 bedroom (or whatever) and the other features and we're moving out around time frame X. Give me $50 (or whatever) and I'll fill you in on the exact address, the owners name and when I'm moving out. Otherwise, you're out there with the masses.

Great idea. I would charge $500.
When I rented out my home in OC last month, I got 4 people who saw it within 72 hours of placing the "for rent" ad, and all 4 wanted it. The calls kept coming in.
LikeI always said...We have a severe shortage of homes.

5   HEY YOU   2016 Aug 29, 7:41am  

Paying more than 10% of the monthly rent is for losers.

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