A PadMapper user who is in the midst of an apartment hunt made a great tutorial screencast about how to use the major features of PadMapper. It serves as an excellent tutorial overview of the major features of PadMapper, ranging from the filters to saving favorites to setting up email alerts. I would highly recommend giving it a watch.
A couple more pro tips…
If you want to set up multiple email alerts, you can enter your email address with a + after the first part with a tag, since PadMapper will replace any alerts with the same exact email address (perhaps this should be changed). So, if your email address is george@gmail.com, you could enter george+cheapapts@gmail.com and sign up for another alert with george+dogfriendlyapts@gmail.com.
Another pro tip: zooming in more will load more apartments (older listings, the newest are always visible from high up). Zooming way in in a few major cities will reveal the locations of top-rated Yelp-reviewed restaurants, bars, gyms, etc.
Final tip: If you’ve got a place to list on Craigslist, list your apartment on PadLister, and that will let you automatically create a pretty, formatted listing for Craigslist maps and pictures, as well as share it on Twitter, Facebook, and your own website via a free widget. Just as PadMapper makes apartment hunting suck less, PadLister makes trying to get your apartment rented out via Craigslist suck less. It’s basically a big toolbox for that.
Thanks very much to the creator of the video – I hope it helps many people – and happy apartment hunting, everyone. As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, please email them to padmapper@gmail.com
Hi Eric,
I was wondering if you have a widget designed for padmapper that will just be your padmapper.com logo. I’d love to link padmapper to my site, but I don’t want to put that huge map widget on the site. Best if it was a small logo and link.
Any help? Much appreciated. Congrats on the site. It’s great!
Maria
I answered Maria’s question directly by email, but for everyone else who might stumble upon this, just copy and paste the following into the HTML of the site you want a badge on:
<a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.padmapper.com” rel=”nofollow”><img src=”http://www.padmapper.com/images/PadMapperBadge.png” alt=”PadMapper Apartment Search”></img></a>
And that gives you something that looks like…
Nifty, eh?
Eric