Finding a place to rent in an Indian city takes a lot of time and a bit of luck. Budgets are easily overshot once you factor in the costs of relocation and other inevitable infrastructural overheads. Brokers usually demand a month's rent as a payout for introducing you to a home owner, so it's in their interest to extract the maximum rent possible. Home owners have their own hangups - with bachelors and spinsters coming in at the bottom of the totem pole of eligibility. Facebook groups dedicated to broker-free flats and home rentals have mushroomed in every major city in India, with no agenda other than helping members skip brokerage fees by cutting out the middle-men. A lot of funding activity has flown into startups dedicated to providing a broker-free platform too, even if the pool of homes available is not as diverse as those available through a network of brokers and real-estate aggregators. Some of these startups have innovative crowd-sourcing techniques and monetisation models that are more reasonably priced than having a broker as a middle man. If you have a little time to spare before your move, here are some websites and apps that could save you some money. - See more at: http://www.khanstory.com/2015/10/finding-home-now-more-easy-seven.html#sthash.oEYgfZ5a.dpuf
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