Platform 1: The users who rent houses in Douban are mostly young people and don't want to go through an intermediary.
I once rented a house in Douban Group for a long time, and the final result was not satisfactory.
Douban Group, as a platform not specially developed for renting houses, is essentially a forum, and the search system is quite basic, with only keyword search.
For example, when I enter the location "He Shili" where I want to rent a house, I see that the information that pops up is very confusing.
There are rental information, roommates, sublets, some without pictures, and some without prices. ...
Only through the platform of Douban, it is difficult to completely judge the information of a house, and it is necessary to add WeChat for further detailed communication.
Moreover, the Douban platform itself has almost no supervision over the housing, and the intermediary has already occupied this platform easily, and can freely publish rental information regardless of whether it is true or false.
There is still a lack of adequate security.
I spent two hours trying to find a non-intermediary landlord to rent a house directly in Douban Group.
Non-intermediary homeowners generally include the following characteristics:
There are usually only 1-2 pictures of houses published on the personal homepage, which are "real" (no wide angle, no lighting, no beauty, taking pictures at first sight). The contact information is generally only telephone and WeChat, and private chat will not urge you to add WeChat. The reaction speed is slow. After consulting the landlord in detail about housing facilities, prices, surrounding environment and other details, we came to a conclusion-
Apart from the point of "direct rent by the landlord", this house does not have much advantage, and the price is not favorable enough to ignore the defects of old decoration and no butler service. So I gave up.
Due to the lack of screening function and messy information, it takes much longer to contact a house in Douban than other rental platforms. If you don't have enough time and are not afraid of trouble. I really don't recommend douban group.
Douban rental team rating
Platform experience: ★
Information authenticity: ★★★★
Overall feeling: ★★
Platform 2: Compared with douban, the screening function of idle fish rental is slightly complete. Can filter the whole rent, shared rent, brand apartment and other information. Click on the details page to see more information, including room type, rent, location, area, pictures and other key information.