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2 points by trickjarrett ↗ HN
I'm in the process of finding a house to rent and have been struck by the fact that it is universally a listing of houses and not of renters.

Does anyone know of a site which allows renters to post their requirements, rooms, rent / buy, down payment etc... ?

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rwl
I am always astonished by this, too. Finding housing and finding a job both seem like problems that are really ripe for some sort of optimizing solution. It's an incredible amount of work for the people on both ends of the process — renters and landlords; employers and would-be employees — because there is so much information to sort through, in a plethora of non-standard formats. Looking through listings (or piles of applications) is truly the lowest common denominator.

Anyway, if you're not aware, Craigslist has a "Housing Wanted" section: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/hsw/ (for the Bay Area)

Also, although this is not what you asked for, http://www.padmapper.com does make searching through listings a lot less painful.

trickjarrett
Thanks, the housing wanted is indeed the concept I was looking at. Somehow I had missed it on Craigslist.