TIPS 4m my experiences of rental home search in Bangalore

I recently did a home search in Bangalore and hence I feel I am eligible to share my in this forum from my experiences.

With my experience on this if you want to do a search through Internet


My first choice would be Magic bricks http://www.magicbricks.com/property/faces/jsp/search/propertySearch.jsp .

This site give you lots of options to refine your search and gives good insight on the property if the advertiser has used the options to put in information. I found myself comfortable with these sites.


My second choice is Sulekha.com ,

It had many listing Personal messaging to the owners were also easy but the interface did not have much things to be really appreciated about



My third choice is makaan.com
You don’t have properties for rent which are below 10000INR per month, this is the saddest thing for people who wanted budget homes. I feel everything is in sync with the features available in magicbricks excerpt for the buckets of the rents they have restricted themselves to and I couldnt also find a more interactive advance search options (but still the next result page has some custom groups. It was working fine for me if I knew the area and the grouping to which the locality gets enlisted. but this feature cannot be compared the one in magic bricks)



Then come 99acres
This site didnt pose well to me on my first look itself. When I chose that I wanted to rent a house still the buckets of the range I wanted to look was in Lacks INR. I think the developers and testers need to be whipped for this reason. Excerpt for that reason this site was no better that its other contender though it had advanced search options.



Beyond all these there are few classified papers also published in Bangalore like free ads. which also come to your help from the paper media. other classifieds in dailies dont serve for the purpose to a large extent.




Yes now comes the important option. I am proposing this because it worked very well for me. I chose the are where I needed a home and then what I literally did was walking through the streets of that locality looking for To-Let boards and having a chat with the securities of the apartment and some times was successful in locating some houses available for rental by taking to the people in the area whom I would have never knew in my life. I also look for any houses which has been newly build or in the verge of completion and subsequently collect the owners and have a chat with them. This worked out very well but it was bit tough to roam around and carry the energy with you.


It was when I felt that we are not in the internet world like many developed countries are. the flip side of he coin I appreciate in India is citizens in India know about their surroundings and are still success full in maintaining their nexus with the society they live. I would say Indians are more lively and less virtual world oriented...



I would suggest from my personal experiences that house brokers to be the last option to be chosen in India. If we have no other option then check for the brokers hidden in the profession of a petty shop owner, grocery shop owner, Packet milk man, Dry cleaners or dhobis and the list goes on and on.

People do pen in your experience on the same adding value to it and enbaling the rentral home searchers in Bangalore

hi,

congrats for successfully finding a rental house in bangalore.

i understand how tiring and frustrating the job is. During my house hunt, i atleast saw 30-40 houses before we finalized on one. either the house was really small..or some good houses the rent was too high..

i found the magazines like admag and freeads more effective than the web .

btw, so where are u staying in blore?

regards
Prabha