My primary tool. Too many hours spent searching the housing posts already. If knifeandfork lets us know what his/her rental needs are (another recent post here in the LA forum) - I can probably provide the best query structure to make craigslist somewhat organized!

Lots of houses available for rent on CL. Some of them sort of reasonable, some of them not (even have my eye on a few that continue to be vacant). Definitely a lot of optimistic landlords. Noone is really interested in me yet since I do not need their place until March. But I am not worried about finding a place when the time comes. Just on how to find the most for my dollars.