Seriously though for fuck sake

Searching on craigslist for a house to rent can be almost exactly retarded.

I am strongly of the opinion that if the listing form were updated and modulated correctly, the search filter could and should be drastically changed to realistically represent practical search results, thus saving inordinate lots of time and energy.

CL >[iowa city] >housing

From here you can narrow your results by: 

• number of bedrooms
• price range
• housing type
• cat allowed
• dog allowed

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From here you are already one tier of specification deeper. ie This would coincide to: 

CL >[iowa city] >housing >house 

and can further narrow by:

• price range
• 36 additional statistics that are Intel Motherboard specific

So, boiled down to this tier, they both still allow you to sort by price range, so that option cancels out for purposes of comparison. CL now leaves you with 3 of the most basic specifications (and two are pretty much the same thing). With housing type and price range already identified, number of bedrooms is often the first thing a searching client would choose in my assumption. Now if you don't need pets allowed, all you have to do is rummage through all those search results and call the listers and drive around to the houses. Understandably, the street address isn't always listed, but the basic 3 options aren't even required fields for the lister.

I'm imagining drop-downs for the lister on CL. It would be less to type out and much more informative for the searching tennents if, say, one of the required fields was:

Laundry?

• On site
• In same building or complex
• Hookups available
• (Other)__________

Another shining example would be like this:

Parking?

• Number of spots included
• Location
• Street
• Reserved lot
• Off street
• Carport
• Attached garage
• Detached garage
• (Other)__________

Clearly, if the lister chooses one of the garage options, the smart form will forward this information for houses to be searchable by 'included garage'

(et cetera ad infinitum in mente)