Rent sooner with Apartments.com units sent by email

If you are moving to a new city for work, a short email with every fresh unit from the rental search you built yourself lets you write to the landlord before the weekend crowd does.

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Set up in a minute

Search on Apartments, sort by newest

Shape the search for the move you are making

On Apartments.com type the city and the neighborhood or ZIP code, then set the most you will pay, the bedrooms and the property type. Keep only the filters you would refuse to live without, such as parking or a pet policy, sort by newest where offered and copy the address of the results page.
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Save it in MXSender and pick email

Paste the link on our website or send it to the MXSender Telegram bot, choose email as the channel and confirm your address. You can add Telegram later, and a clear name such as „Logan Square 1BR under 1,900“ keeps several hunts apart.
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New listings land in your inbox

Open one mail per check

Whenever a check finds units that were not in your results before, one message lists all of them, each with a photo, the title, the monthly rent and a link to the listing. Units that were already there when you saved the search are skipped.
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Moving to Chicago in six weeks: an inbox routine

Picture an offer letter that starts on the first of next month. You cannot drive past buildings on a Saturday, so the hunt happens between meetings, at a desk eight hundred miles away. Reloading a results page in a browser tab all day is how people miss the one unit that matters. A mail that arrives only when something new appeared is easier to live with.

Set aside two short moments a day, say lunch and early evening, to read whatever has come in. If a unit fits, send a message through the listing the same hour and ask for a video tour or a showing on the day you fly in.

Reading a batch of new units in one sitting

Because each check produces one mail rather than a stream of separate notes, a busy afternoon might bring three or four units on the same page. Compare them there: rent, photos, the street. Star the two worth a call and archive the rest, and your inbox becomes the shortlist you show your partner on the weekend.

Before a leasing office gets your application fee

Check that the person or company behind the listing really manages the building: call the number on the management company’s own website, not one sent by text, and look the address up in the county property records. Never wire a deposit or pay with gift cards for a place you have not seen in person or on a live video walk-through with someone you have verified.

Application fees are normal for US rentals, but caps and rules differ from state to state and sometimes city to city, so read your local rules before paying several of them in one week.

When the first rental mail does not show up

Your mail provider decides where our messages land, not us. After saving the search, look in spam or the promotions tab once the first match should have come, mark the message as wanted and add the sender to your contacts. Every mail carries an unsubscribe link at the bottom if you sign a lease and want to stop.

Plans, speed and extra inboxes for the household

Free gives you one search checked every 30 minutes and one alert address. Starter at $5.99 covers five searches checked every 10 minutes, still with one address. Pro at $14.99 holds twenty searches with the fastest checks and lets the alerts go to three addresses, handy when two adults and a relocation coordinator all want the list. Telegram and email are on every plan.