Reny

if you're about to rent in NYC don't pay thousands of dollars to a random guy who showed you an apartment for 5 mins! Instead, go to Reny, find the apartment you liked and submit an application DIRECTLY to the landlord! In NYC landlords have multiple units and they prefer to avoid the hassle of renting their units themselves, so they hire property managers to 1) rent the apartments 2) maintain the apartments. The property managers hire supers for #2 and for #1 they do nothing, because literally some mythical creatures called agents "volunteer" to find them good tenants, in other words, work for free for them...they post a listing, lure tenants, select the best applicant (sometimes based on race, ethnicity etc) and squeeze them from thousands of dollars of hard earned money for showing an apt for 5 mins. Reny lets you submit an application, validate your financial situation in secs (no more pay stubs and all that stuff) and submit a contract to the landlord in less than 2 mins. if the landlord selects your application you don't pay 15% total annual rent but only 3% to us. No more back and forth with the broker. No more selection bias. Use those thousands of dollars saved to go on a vacation or whatever you want.