New York City rentals · free, forever
Be first, not lucky.
A good New York apartment is gone in a day. It goes to whoever replies first and follows through. The listing sites are where you look; DamnLease is where you win. Paste any place you find and it runs the chase: the honest price, the building's record, the message to the agent already written, and a watch on every place you're after, so a price cut or a quiet delisting finds you first.
- Rents behind the price check
- 1,468
- Sites to hunt, one door each
- 17
- Watch on your places
- Daily
- Price
- $0
What you walk in knowing.
- The price
What this place should really cost
Every place you paste gets checked against apartments just like it: same building, same layout, same bedrooms. You see how much too high the rent is, and get a polite script that says so.
- The building
The record nobody puts in the listing
Open violations, bedbug reports, and noise complaints on the block, straight from city records. The photos won't tell you the boiler broke twice this year.
- The clock
How long it's really been sitting
When it first showed up, every price cut since, and the day it was quietly posted again as new. A place that has sat for three weeks is much easier to bargain with than one posted this morning.
- The cost
What you'll actually hand over
The real monthly rent once free months are counted in, the broker fee, the cash you need on day one, and whether your income passes the 40x rule, all before you fall for the place.
- The move
The message, already written
Named, specific, human, and sent from your own phone. The first reply usually gets the tour, and writing one from scratch is what puts you behind.
- The crew
One board, not a group chat
Your roommate sees the same board, the same tour videos, the same notes, and who is talking to which agent. Nobody asks the same question twice.
About
Made by a frustrated renter.
I lost an apartment I wanted by four hours, to someone who saw the listing first. Then it happened again. The tools renters get are catalogs built for the people selling. Everything that really decides it, the true price, the building's record, who replied first, you have to figure out alone, in twelve tabs, at midnight.
So I built the thing I wanted. It is completely free. There is no paid version hiding the good parts, and nothing about you gets sold, because there is no business here to sell it for. One person builds it, in New York, mostly at night.
What it can't do, so you hear it from me
- New York only. The building records, the price checks, and the commute times all come from this city's data. Anywhere else it would just be a worse spreadsheet.
- It isn't the inventory. The apartments live on StreetEasy, Zillow, and the sublet boards. DamnLease opens each of them with your search already set, and hunts whatever you paste back. A place you never paste, it never sees.
- The numbers are estimates. Price checks, monthly costs, and scores come from outside data that can be old or wrong. Use them to ask sharper questions at the viewing, not to sign anything.
- It won't message anyone for you. It writes the text, you send it from your own phone. That is deliberate. An agent can tell, and a bot gets ignored.
- It's young. A handful of people use it. If something breaks, email me and I will actually fix it.
Jake, New York · jtsilver123@gmail.com
“Why not just use Zillow?”
Because a listing site is a catalog, and hunting is not browsing. Hunting is texting agents, booking tours, comparing your finalists, and beating four other people to the same apartment. Right now that part lives in twelve tabs, a group chat, and a spreadsheet.
Every site, one hunt
StreetEasy, Zillow, the sublet boards, the Facebook groups: each a click away with your search carried, and everything you find lands on one board with the copies merged.
Listing sites: One site's slice of the marketWhat it really costs
The real rent once free months are counted in, the fees, the cash to move in, and whether your income passes the 40x rule.
Listing sites: The asking rentA price check that argues back
Every place you paste checked against apartments just like it, with a bargaining script ready to send, or a warning to move fast instead.
Listing sites: “Contact agent”The building's record
Open violations, bedbug reports, and the block's noise complaints, from city records.
Listing sites: The listing's own photosA pipeline that chases
Every place you chase, tracked from first text to signed lease, and re-checked every day: price cuts, relists, and quiet delistings come to you. Two days of silence gets flagged, with the nudge already drafted.
Listing sites: Browser tabs and memoryA crew, not a group chat
One shared board with your roommate or family: tours, videos from viewings, and who is on point for which agent.
Listing sites: Forwarded links
Zillow shows you apartments. DamnLease wins you one.
Hunt as a crew.
Moving in with someone? Share one pipeline and split who talks to which agent. Living alone? Let friends and family scout for you. Every find carries their name, and the final say stays yours.