South Bay Rentals

If I could give zero stars, I would. Only leaving a review as a word of caution to others! If you’re looking for housing in the South Bay your best bet is Craigslist, Trulia or Zillow! These apps include all the same listings as South Bay Rentals (plus so many more!)— but for FREE! Be smart and don’t waste your $ 60 bucks like we did.

I’m really disappointed in this service. I should have known as I agreed to a very strange contract of terms.
I was willing to pay for a good resource to find a place in the south bay area. After paying and having access to all the info for their listings, I find out that nearly every listing is either an outdated post and/​or a post from a 2 star rated apartment complex fishing for their next tenants and not actual properties.
1 week later I’m down $ 70 (price went up since other reviews!) and back to craigslist and driving around looking for signs.

The less than satisfactory reviews about this business are in the same ball park with my experience. South Bay Rentals is not there to give you personalized service of any kind. They aren’t going to filter your criteria or adjust it daily as is often necessary. The listings they provide are the same as
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for no fee. The service is no better because they are not there for you – period. Not worth your time or money

I am relocating so I registered the website and try to find places.
This website is not very useful for me. Nobody replies my email to answer my questions when I sent email to the south bay rental website
address.
Very few apartments on that website. Some places are already rented out but still listed on the website. Not worth my money at all.

Thank God I found this company! I had a bad experience with their competitor (west side) and a friend recommended South Bay Rentals. I had a bunch of questions and the owner got back to me very quickly. So I was able to find the perfect place for us to rent! Thank you

One star for few listings (or rather one) it had exclusively & not found on Craigslist-​or bunches of apartment websites w/​issues of accuracy. Also, based on all seven «one» star reviews, (Lol there’s actually one positive?), it’s accurate in stating it’s a complete waste of money, unless you don’t mind giving you money away.
There were few outdated phone numbers & rent prices; When I brought it to their attention, I never got a response, nor was the phone number corrected but they were fast to correct rent amounts. It’s like doing business with automated system — not a human being. But some human (s) are getting rich off it.
I’ve never driven by the business address listed, however Google is accurate showing that address indeed is a residence, that should’ve been a red flag right then.
Anyhow, best way in finding your new home is honestly combing carefully through Craigslist & you’ll unfortunately have to work hard at determining the fakes/​scams from the legit posts and the old fashioned way of driving around getting phone numbers — wasting gas & time yes! But worth it if you do find the ideal place to live & only if your able to; Relocating out of area/​state would be the only reason you couldn’t and you might have to rely on Property Management companies in the desired areas & Craigslist and be very vigilant. All the «dot​.com» sites are simply useless, they are only a few listings — most of which are overpriced mega complexes in highly congested areas or less desirable.

Save yourself $ 60 and use Zillow or Trulia!
I emailed South Bay Rentals asking a few questions about rental property and about the search criteria of the home I was looking for. I got a very rude and useless email back from Mary Ann Amato stating «ALL OF THE PROPERTIES WE HAVE ARE LISTED IN THE SITE. Once you pay the fee, you will get the contact info.» Basically just asking me for money without answering any of my questions. I responded with another question and never received an email back.
Very disappointed in how much of a scam this company is.
Bottom line, you will find what you are looking for on any other site that is free.
Save yourself $ 60 and stay away from South Bay Rentals

If I could give them 0 stars I would. I signed up thinking I would get great results but NO. This search basically gave me the rentals at The Gallery and Playa Pacifica in the southbay. Also, the other results, I called and never got any of my phone calls returned by the people I tried to contact, which is so rude. I tried to get a refund the next day and they claimed since there were 21 results then they wouldn’t refund me my money! Wow, how incredibly bad the customer service is there! Do NOT pay for this service as it is NOT worth it at all!!! Super rude, and not helpful!!!

This website is a let down. It is not kept up to date regarding rented apartments and there are limited photos if ANY.
Should have come here first
From just wasted 60.00

TERRIBLE website & customer service. All of the properties listed are available somewhere else for free & MANY of the properties I called weren’t even available anymore. This service is not up to date & the customer service is AWFUL. They wont e-​mail you back for weeks and then when they do they are completely rude and unhelpful. DONT BOTHER.

I was asked to give my credit card information before i was given a total for member services. I mistakenly assumed it would be reasonable. $ 60 for 60 days seems like too much to me as it is, but when I stuck it out to see if it would be worth it, I was sorely disappointed! There are not enough ways to limit your criteria. The listing matches did not increase daily as they would have on craigslist with identical criteria, which says to me that not many landlords list through South Bay Rentals. This is especially apparent when considering I was looking on the last weekend of the month when listings should be appearing like wildfire. When I contacted them for a refund based on dissatisfaction only four days after signing up, I was treated entirey unprofessionally and even hung up on. I had to dispute the charge through my bank to get a refund.

I’m a busy gal in a busy world. Between work & play, I really don’t mind paying for some services to ease the stresses on my life. Rental services that is.
Sure there are the free stuff like CL and the Beach Reporter (local newspaper), but how awesome is a website emailing you pre-​filtered properties when they become available instead of surfing through spam on CL and driving around town looking for some newspaper? All I have to do is call (I wish they had email) potential properties and set up viewings to find my next apartment.
It’s not cheap… $ 60 for 2 months but seriously can you put a price on your perfect pad?