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Apartment.com – Taking the Stress Out of Apartment Hunting

Making use of online services like apartment.com takes much of the stress out of apartment hunting and going through a relocation process. Owned by Classified Ventures (CV), LLC as of 2012, the website’s history date’s back to 1997 when a Chicago apartment locating service started the Apartments Plus website. By the middle of that year, the site expanded to a nationwide focus and by the year’s end, CV purchased the service to provide internet apartment advertising for newspapers all over America. The following year Apartments Plus underwent a name change to Apartments.com.

Renters represent the key target market of apartment.com and those looking to move to another unit in their area or in a different state can access the helpful resources with the click of a button. Apartment searches include pictures of properties and the interiors and exteriors of apartments, giving potential tenants a clear image and idea of the condition and appearance of places they might end up calling home. On the website they can also find maps, driving directions and contact information for property managers.

Apartments.com also serves as a one-stop moving resource station with a moving center set up with recommendations of select furniture and truck rental companies to use and the steps to go through to put in for an address change at the post office. The Washington Post and L.A. Times, along with the Chicago Tribune represent three of more than 120 papers that use visual listings on their websites from Apartment.com. In addition to the online presence, Apartments.com works with the print newspapers of many cities, some of whom exclusively use the service for their classified rental ads.

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