San Francisco Bay Area Apartments Rentals Houses

In Print and Online! • Updated on the Web in Real Time
Published Bi-Weekly in Print Since 1986

San Francisco, Marin, East Bay, South Bay, the Peninsula • Includes Unfurnished and Furnished Short Term Rentals, Senior Housing, Roommates, Commercial Property

Rental Guide has been bringing Bay Area property owners and qualified renters together for over 20 years.

In Print and on the Web By using Rental Guide to market your rental property you'll gain exposure in our highly visible and widely distributed rental magazine, as well as on the internet with our fully searchable website RentalGuide.com (your listings will appear online before the magazine prints).

RentalGuide.com Reaches High-Income Internet Renters & Inbound Relocating Renters Around the World RentalGuide.com is a fully searchable website that allows renters to search by area, price, availability, or specific amenities like pet policies or parking, and has the flexibility to update listings daily, providing national and international exposure to your rental listings.

Manage and Create Your Own Listings Online 24/7 Or Call Us and We'll Do It! A USERNAME and PASSWORD will gain you access to our landlord website and all of your Rental Guide listings (active and inactive). This includes all properties running in our current issue and all the properties you've listed with us in the past! Create new listings, modify rents, amenities or which photos are used. When you have a vacancy to fill, you can reactivate archived listings or inactivate listings when rented. Unlike other listing services, your rental listings remain active as long as you wish and are archived in our database.

Same Day Vacancy Listings Please remember that when you receive notice of a vacancy, we can list your rental online in real time! There's no need to wait for the next issue of our magazine to come out for your unit to begin receiving exposure. Just phone it in, fax, e-mail or log in to our website!

Rental Guide Magazine & Website Premium Advertisers

Targeted Every two weeks Rental Guide reaches an estimated 40,000 renters, while RentalGuide.com has an average of 13,000 visitors per month and 30,000 page views per month by renters browsing available listings.

Compare Rental Guide to the Competition Compare our customer service, circulation, rates, visibility and portfolio of advertisers to any other rental medium -print or web. Rental Guide provides our advertisers with unmatched results!

820 Distribution Points Throughout San Francisco, Marin County and the Peninsula

• 440+ street racks & pedmounts in high traffic, visible, easily accessible areas
• In-store locations including most Safeway stores and other popular shopping centers
• Outside Caltrain and BART stations
• Near commuter ferry terminals
• In front of many local banks and ATMs
• Major real estate & relocation offices
• Corporations, human resource departments & relocation packages
• Local colleges and universities
• Local convention & visitors bureaus
• Chambers of Commerce
• Professional offices per request
• Many out-of-state mailings per request
• Reading venues: cafes, libraries and bookstores that reach a captive audience

Rates start at $89/month for Print & web
Download the 2008 Rental Guide Media Kit (PDF)

How it works: You pay Rental Guide a success fee when we send you a renter who signs a lease with you.

No advertising costs to you: We'll promote your available vacancies online on the RentalGuide.com website and in our Rental Guide Magazine (Renter Rewards ads contain limited contact information). You only pay for results when we fill a vacancy.

When renters register with RentalGuide.com they tell us what they are looking for: We do the match making. We track which properties renters review on our website so we can later confirm with you that RentalGuide.com was indeed the referral source of the lease. Rental Guide will contact you to confirm the lease and bill $300 per lease. We pay a $150 Renter Reward to the renter for using our service. It's like you're paying the renter the $150 as a move-in bonus!

Your internet listing will have up to 6 photos. You can log in and list a specific unit or a range of units as they become available. Or just call us and we'll list your vacancies for you. Only our service will also advertise your property in a printed format - Rental Guide Magazine.

Even if a renter does not choose you as their next address your property has gained valuable advertising exposure online and in print at no cost to you! You only pay for results!