APARTMENTS:
There's a reason why we call the search for a place to live around here
Boston Hazing.
- Roommate Roulette, on the web: search the BostonApartments.com/ApartmentsUSA.com
Massachusetts
Roommate Ads and Craig's List
Boston (or give up some personal information and check out BostonRoommates.com)
- Roommate Roulette, on the newsgroups: try ne.housing
- Roommate Roulette, in the paper: use the Boston
Phoenix
Classifieds
- Roommate Roulette, with a yenta: enlist Matching Roommates (4 Brattle
Street in Harvard Square 617-864-2600) or Roommate Connection
- The Realtor Thing: check out the Boston Globe's real estate section,
searchable at realestate.boston.com or try one of
these realtors recommended by my friends: Connor's Associates (Teele
Square Somerville 628-8110, does Somerville and Cambridge, ask for John
McCann or Theresa Adams); RE/Max Realty (Braintree, ask for Betsy
Trethwey); Walnut Hill Realty (Medford/Somerville, for the
Tufts-affiliated). (emphatically NOT recommended by my
friends: Betty at Prudential Realty on Rt 60 in Medford)
- Mailing Lists: The List:
Boston's Queer Agenda
Classifieds (formerly "hannah's list"; geared towards queer women),
maldenish (for
those with alternative lifestyles looking to buy/rent
houses/condos/apartments in the Malden/Medford/Melrose/Everett area)
- Other Strategies: Check flyers in your hopeful-local independent
coffeeshops and bookstores; speak with people who own Variety Stores in
the area (they usually own property or know everyone in town); ask
everyone you know; get your student friends to check listings in their
school's housing office and newsgroups
- Misc. Other Sites With Listings (have generally been less helpful, but
you never know): Dwellings, Yahoo! Classifieds Massachusettes Apartment Rentals Guide,
apartmentaccess.com (you pay a
medium-sized fee to get listings rather than a realtor's fee), homestore.com (formerly Spring Street),
homefind.com (formerly townonline.com
real estate), justrentals.com, ApartmentSource.com, RoommateClick.com
- Sites I haven't yet used, but look useful: listings from Tufts Off-Campus Housing
Resource Center, BostonRealEstate.com, Emerson
College Off-Campus Student Services Apartment Listings
- bostoncoop.net - housing available
- Advice from Emerson
College Off-Campus Housing
- A
Massachusetts Consumer Guide: Tenants' Rights and Responsibilities (a.k.a.
"The Tenant's Commandments")
- Tenant-Landlord
Information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Consumer Affairs &
Business Regulation
- Safe and
Sanitary Housing for Massachusetts Residents
- Massachusetts
Tenant Information from tenant.net (a mostly-New York site)
- Boston Relocation
Guide
- Bad Landlords - Massachusetts Renters
- Mass Housing
- Buying...
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Audrey Beth Stein
