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Apartment Hunting

Overview

Apartment hunting is stressful, with so many budgets, details, and and amenities to track. Parking or no parking? What was that exact square footage? Is this your third favorite neighborhood or fourth?

Simplify your search with this apartment hunting template. Unlike an apartment comparison spreadsheet, Airtable's visual nature lets you turn photos and videos into expandable records, along with information like the neighborhood, stats, and rent.

Why our apartment hunting template?

In competitive real-estate markets, apartments rent fast. When you’re choosing a place, you don’t have time to dig through your notes.

Unlike a spreadsheet or Google Sheet, this Airtable template gives you a quick, intuitive sense for each space and its main features. The template also lets you embed documents like PDFs and rental applications alongside your notes.

  • Compare. One apartment might have a clawfoot tub but no kitchen. The other? A chef’s kitchen, but a moldy shower stall. Use this template to compare features, location, price, and other critical details.
  • Visualize. Embed images, maps, and videos in records to compare the look of each apartment.
  • Rate. Use the “My rating” column, with a scale of 1-5 (plus all-important emojis) to rate apartments as you go.

What is apartment hunting?

Apartment hunting is a fancy term for everything involved in looking for a new place to live.

And it’s called “hunting” for a reason—it’s challenging, tiring, and can even be a bit cutthroat. After you’ve cleared all these hurdles—setting your budget, determining non-negotiables, and haggling with your new roommates or landlord—the last thing you need is an organizational headache.

Our apartment hunting template will help you keep property details straight so you can land in the sweetest home sweet home.

Who is this apartment hunting template for?

Sure, gut instinct is great but this template is for anyone who would like to make an analytical approach to their apartment search.

It’s simple enough to make informed comparisons, even from the small screen of a smartphone. It’s also sophisticated enough to keep picky apartment hunters happy, granting a way to add categories that matter and delete those that don’t.

If the number of bedrooms is highest priority, build a view that shows only those apartments that meet your criteria.

Tips to get started with our apartment hunter

Ready to sharpen your spear for the next round of apartment hunting? Here are a few quick tips for using the template:

  • Make it your own. There are three example apartments populating the template. Delete these and add your own as you go to showings. Need another column? You can fine tune the way you use any Airtable template so it’s customized to your exact needs.
  • Try a new view. Views let you see your data in ways that add will insight to your apartment search. Switch to Gallery view to see apartment options as visual cards, or use Kanban view to rank your preferences in order.
  • Invite collaborators. Family or potential roommates helping you decide on a place? Airtable’s intuitive share options make it easy to set permissions so other renters can access your notes, or make comments or suggestions in real time.
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