FAQ

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Table of Contents

  1. For Renters
    1. Q1. How can Cazoodle help in the rental process?
    2. Q2. How does Cazoodle get rental listings?
    3. Q3. How do I contact property owners?
    4. Q4. How do I search for apartments within 5 miles of a city? 10 miles? ...
    5. Q5. What about apartments near my work place? Or some other address?
    6. Q6. Why Cazoodle has no results for my city?
    7. Q7. How can I find out if a rental listing is available for lease?
    8. Q8. Why some of the listings that are not available still included in results?
  2. For Property Owners
    1. Q1. How does Cazoodle collect so many listings?
    2. Q2. My properties are not on your website. How do I add them?
    3. Q3. My listings on your site are not up-to-date. How do I update them?
  3. For Website Administrators
    1. Q1. What is CazoodleBot? How does it work?
    2. Q2. My site is not about apartment rental, why does Cazoodle crawl my site?
  4. For Users
    1. Q1. I keep getting "Slow Script" pop-up windows in my Safari, how can I resolve it?

For Renters

Q1. How can Cazoodle help in the rental process?

Cazoodle Apartment Search is a one-stop search service that integrates apartments for rent from thousands of online sources. You can search by different conditions such as rent, number of bedroom, bathroom, and city. The results include links back to original websites for more information.

Q2. How does Cazoodle get rental listings?

Cazoodle organically collects listings from thousands of online sources. If you see that Cazoodle missed some relevant websites, kindly let us know.

Q3. How do I contact property owners?

All the results include links back to the original sources. The result snippet also displays the contact phone number, when available.

Q4. How do I search for apartments within 5 miles of a city? 10 miles? ...

There is a within selection box on the the query form. Use it to specify the radius around your city. You could also sort by distance.

Q5. What about apartments near my work place? Or some other address?

You could use the within box in the query form to search for apartments within certain radius of your city. The map will show a circle with a center marker at the center of the city. Then you could move the center marker to any point.

Q6. Why Cazoodle has no results for my city?

CazoodleBot must have missed the websites relevant to your city. Kindly let us know, so that Cazoodle can fix this.

Q7. How can I find out if a rental listing is available for lease?

Since Cazoodle automatically collects rental listings regularly from all over the Web, it is possible that some listings are not immediately available, as the rental market is quite dynamic. You may call the phone number displayed next to that listing. Also, besides the brief information shown in our search results, possibly, the original website may have more detailed information, including availability. You can click on the link to the source website to visit source of the listing.

Q8. Why some of the listings that are not available still included in results?

We try hard to keep our results up-to-date. Since we rely on automatic crawling to gather these listings, it is possible that some of our results may be out-of-date. Our "sort by Posting Date" function may be useful here, as it will first show listings that our crawler has obtained more recently.

For Property Owners

Q1. How does Cazoodle collect so many listings?

Cazoodle organically collects listings from thousands of online sources. All the search results include links back to original sources, so you are able to see where each listing was found.

Q2. My properties are not on your website. How do I add them?

It is possible that we missed to include your site. You can provide listings in two ways. Either you can go to http://apartment.cazoodle.com/datafeed.php to submit your XML Feed URL. Or you can email us your web site link and we will add it to our crawler.

Q3. My listings on your site are not up-to-date. How do I update them?

Some new functions will be added soon to manage and edit your listings. Let us know if you are interested.

For Website Administrators

Q1. What is CazoodleBot? How does it work?

CazoodleBot is Cazoodle's software program for crawling the Web. It automatically collects apartment listings from all over the Web.

Q2. My site is not about apartment rental; why does Cazoodle crawl my site?

Apartment Search is Cazoodle's first product among others. Cazoodle's mission is to enable similar vertical search services in many other domains. So the crawling is quite general; however, it follows all robots.txt policies. If you notice unusual crawling activities, please let Cazoodle know.

For Users

Q1. I keep getting "Slow Script" pop-up windows in my Safari, how can I resolve it?

You are getting this message because Runaway Javascript Timer is enabled in your Safari. If you are running Safari version 3 and above, please go to "Develop" menu, and choose "Disable Runaway Javascript Timer". For Safari versions those do not have "Develop" menu, please refer to this article for further information.