Apartment Guide VS Homesnap

Since you're new to the area, renting an apt would be a good first start. You probably know all the websites for searching- apartments.com, apartmentfinder.com, apartmentguide.com, rent.com, but avoid craigslist, facebook- lots of sketchy landlords. A good rule for new resident is to stick with regular apt complexes instead of small landlords; there are more protections and infrastructure for dealing with repairs,... Source: 12 months ago

Have you looked at apartmentguide.com? You're going to be hard pressed to find a decent 2-bedroom for $1600 in Henrico. Try looking in Chesterfield County. It might be cheaper there. Source: 12 months ago

Apartments.com Apartmentfinder.com Apartmentguide.com Zillow.com. Source: about 1 year ago

Apartmentguide.com and apartments.com are very useful, and Trulia has been helpful while looking at houses to rent. You are REALLY going to want to come out for a couple days and look around though. That's the only way to find something that you will feel comfortable in. You can have some sketchy ass places right across the street from some nice places and they'll both be similar in pricing. Source: about 1 year ago

Any of the major sites: Zillow, Truilia, Apartmentslist, will have all the corporate owned places and a good majority of the smaller but professionally managed condos, etc. FB market place and Craigslist I've personally found to be where the majority of basement/ADU's are found. The much smaller complexes that are likely owner run with virtually no internet presence a lot of times can be found on some of the much... Source: over 1 year ago

Blaming it on Californians is a false right-wing shibboleth; they're short too. For example, at the moment, Sunnyvale CA, population 150K in the heart of Silicon Valley, has a whopping 56 houses and townhouses for sale, about half per-capita of ABQ's 349 (source: realtor.com, filtered for non-pending). Most of the people who "fled" the Bay Area just moved to the outer suburbs. Source: about 3 years ago