Find a Zillow rental first with email alerts

When apartments in your price band rent within days, an email that collects every new unit from your own Zillow rental search lets you send a showing request while others are still scrolling.

3 steps

Set up in a minute

Search on Zillow, sort by newest

Build the rental search on Zillow

Choose For rent, type the borough, neighborhood or ZIP code and set your top rent, the beds and baths and the home type. Add a pet or laundry filter only if you truly need it, sort by newest and copy the link of the results page.
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Copy the link, paste it into mxsender

Save it in MXSender with email

Paste the link on our website or send it to the MXSender Telegram bot, choose email and confirm the address you check most. You can add Telegram later. A name such as „Astoria 1BR“ helps when you run more than one search.
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New listings land in your inbox

Get one email per check

When a check finds rentals that were not in your results before, one mail lists each with its photo, title, monthly rent and a link to Zillow. Units already listed when you saved the search are skipped.
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Track a search on Zillow right now

Paste the Zillow search link you want watched — we’ll check we can read it, then set up your alerts.

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Five things to settle before the first Zillow rental email

One: the exact neighborhoods, not a whole city. Two: the highest rent you would sign for, including utilities you expect to pay. Three: the latest move-in date that still works with your current lease. Four: who signs, and whether you need a guarantor. Five: the documents you will send, ready as files.

With those decided, each mail becomes a quick yes or no rather than a long evening of thinking.

Comparing several rentals in a single mail

Email puts all the units a check found on one screen. On a busy day that might be two apartments in the same building and one a few blocks away; you can weigh rent, light and layout before writing to anyone. Write to the best one first, then the runner-up the same hour.

Afterwards, keep a folder of the mails for the units you saw. The listing link stays there even after the unit is rented, which helps if you are disputing a fee or comparing what similar places cost.

Keeping rental mails visible in a crowded inbox

Your provider decides where our mail goes. After the first match should have come, check spam and the promotions tab, mark our message as wanted and add the sender to your contacts. A filter that labels the alerts and keeps them in the main inbox stops them from sinking under newsletters.

Lease paperwork, fees and the landlord’s identity

Ask who manages the building and check that name in the city or county property records. See the unit in person or on a live video call with that verified person before any money moves, and never pay a deposit by wire or gift card. Rules on application fees, broker fees and deposits vary by state and city, New York among the strictest, so read what applies where you are renting.

Check speed per plan for a fast rental market

Free checks one search every 30 minutes and mails one address. Starter, $5.99, checks five searches every 10 minutes, still one address. Pro, $14.99, holds twenty searches with the fastest checks and mails up to three addresses, useful for roommates who each want the list. Telegram and email come with every plan.