Your best bet is to get an individual landlord to trust you. Most property management companies will ignore someone with a 550 credit rating. They will certainly take the application then ghost you. Yours is very good but the credit trust goes with the income earner. I had a friend who did this whose credit rating was 600 after filing a consumer proposal (similar to bankruptcy for debts), it worked. He viewed... Source: 12 months ago

The weekly ones or monthly ones - these are condos on strata.ca. You'll likely get a random roommates, might work out, might not. For example the one at 39 Roehampton, a 3 bedroom which charges $295 a week. The landlord gets to rent the whole condo for about $4500. That used to be a better profit than one lease. Alternatively, you could rent a 2 bed and find your own roommate for the same or less today. Source: 12 months ago

No difference. Realtors get paid the equivalent of one's month's rent for finding a tenant. I tried strata's, good at sending listings, not so good at helping secure a place. Then after trying 3 more realtors, decided to do my own research and just contact the realtor or brokerage related to the property on strata.ca. Realtor's bread and butter is sales, lots more money than helping a renter. So this time of year... Source: 12 months ago

Yes this is normal and happens often. Most looking for rentals search sites like condos.ca, strata.ca then contact the realtor representing the property directly. Source: 12 months ago

The realtor will help you but only with rentals on real estate sites. Not with all rental buildings (there are a few) and not with private landlords on kijiji. The all rental ones are called purpose-built rental buildings here in TO. Realtors get paid the equivalent of one month's rent. Some tend to show you the ones they sold to investors first and promised rent covers expenses. You don't have to be exclusive. ... Source: 12 months ago

You should be able to find something between streeteasy.com, renthop.com, and zillow.com. All three also have the option of looking for No Fee apartments. Source: 12 months ago

There's a great website: renthop.com that I used to find off campus housing around the campus at the last minute. My roommates however had panicked way in the beginning because they thought we wouldn't be able to find a place, and instead got a spot where they're both paying $800 per person, per room, not including some utlities instead of sharing an apartment/townhome together as planned. I've been thinking about... Source: almost 2 years ago

I found my current apartment thru https://renthop.com. Source: about 2 years ago

There are websites like renthop.com for finding rooms in NYC. Brooklyn has some decent rates for private rooms. Source: almost 3 years ago