What are some of the more reliable apartment guides?

Some of the more reliable apartment guides include Apartments.com, Craigslist, Hotpads, Trulia and Lovely, according to Lifehacker. Sites such as GreatSchools.org are also useful for renters looking for good schools near properties in which they are interested.

Apartments.com is useful for finding managed apartment communities and getting accurate rent prices, notes Lifehacker. Craigslist works well in conjunction with Padmapper, which pulls apartment listings directly from Craigslist. Hotpads offers current apartment listings and a map search. The service provides street views of apartment communities and allows users to save their favorite listings. Searchers can use Trulia to save apartment listings according to location and price. The tool also allows users to find listings according to commute time.