The whole business model for rental agents is based on spamming. They tell tenants that an apartment is a good deal when it’s overpriced. They tell landlords that an apartment is overpriced when it’s not. They represent no one yet take a commission like they represent someone. They’re about as useful as Nigerian spammers/scammers.

They’re trying to ruin Craigslist. The spam the site with thousands of properties that don’t exist to get people to call them. When I post an apartment for rent on Craigslist, I put in all capital letters for rental agents not to call me, then every agent in the city calls asking if they can list my property. In the beginning I’d let them list my property, only to have them tell me it was overpriced. Somehow, I always seem to rent my properties out the the first person that views them.