[bogidon]

I just spent two months apartment searching in NYC. I talked to many brokers but not one was interested in actively searching on my behalf. The market is incredibly disadvantageous to renters right now. Maybe parent is sharing experience from a different time or has broker connections I did not.

As an aside I also tried to automate my apartment hunt. The main thing that matters in NYC is time to respond. Unfortunately Zillow, StreetEasy, etc are not very easy to automate on the messaging side due to bot countermeasures. It was an incredibly time consuming, manual process. Happily found a great place though.