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OldSweatyBulbasar OP t1_ja52t0o wrote

Reply to comment by Status_Silver_5114 in Does anyone have a recommendation for a good/trustworthy realtor? Looking for apartment rentals. by OldSweatyBulbasar

Like I said just rentals. Not sure if anything you said still applies, but when you say fee are you talking broker fee?

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_ja537us wrote

In some locales (ie nyc) prospective tenants pay the broker fee / in RI the landlord does. So it’s free for folks looking to use realtors here / asking for a specific agent in the case of renting doesn’t really mean anything since the deal is what it is. I’d look at the inventory at basically all the local firms in that case since it’s not going to cost you anything. And listings aren’t shared / private either so I’d go off of the place you want rather than the realtor since they won’t be showing you multiple places they way they would with buying. Also if you are looking in PVD look on Craigslist for the small landlords who don’t want to pay a fee so advertise there instead. (Not sure about other towns but many / most east side landlords just throw things up on Craigslist. Zillow is a mess. ) Keep in mind the incoming med students and residents are about to swoop in (march) to get the June 1/July 1 places so I wouldn’t wait too long if you want east side. But calling a realtor about a place doesn’t involve a brokers fee a la NYC that’s really the point. So you shouldn’t worry about using one. Where are you coming from?

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OldSweatyBulbasar OP t1_ja5bktm wrote

We’re coming from boston where broker fees of a month’s rent are the norm, so that’s really good to know. So when you say east, you mean the historic district / hope etc and not east providence right? I remember seeing a ton of available places in january but much less now, worried that’s why!

Just looked through craigslist — cheaper prices than zillow and apartments.com. A few realty sites had listings that weren’t on these sites but the prices weren’t nearly as great.

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_ja5gd1j wrote

Not east providence - east side OF providence (fox point college hill and hope street etc) You’ll see a lot more come online in the next month (see previous mention re med students). Grad students come in waves and the medical crowd picks stuff up first bc of needing to be here june / by July so most east side landlords time their places to have start dates to accommodate bc it means tenants that stick around for multiple years and are never home bc they are always at work and have a funding letter from brown / the hospitals (you get the idea). PhDs look for July and august and then the inventory drops again (at least on the East side). There’s an agency on Hope - I’m blanking on the name but it’s a local firm that has a lot of listings near the cvs / then check residential properties listings and Mott and chace and then keep an eye on Craigslist. Brokers don’t really matter re rentals here (even in Boston they just handle photos showings and paperwork the landlord decides in the end). Just find the listings you like. And yes inventory in fall and winter is low. Be wary of places that are sitting - there’s a certain listing on the east side that has a psycho landlord that Mott and chace has the listing for - been sitting since October for a reason. And yes that month that you pay in Boston is charged to the landlord here in providence NOt the potential tenant. Hence fewer listings by agents! I mean you still have to do a months security but not a broker fee on top of it. Also ri state law caps security deposits at one month (but security deposits don’t have to be in an interest bearing account saved for you so you don’t get that interest).

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