NoFeeNest no-fee rentals from owners

About NoFeeNest — AI apartment finder

Read the long term rentals FAQ for Los Angeles, NYC and San Francisco before contacting a listing owner. Exclusive slices: AI search for apartments, rent apartment Los Angeles long term, long term rentals Houston, long term rentals Dallas.

NoFeeNest is a free AI apartment finder of public no fee posts across 13 US cities. As of 21 August 2026 it holds 72,747 clean cards, including 5,979 long term rentals Los Angeles median 1,910 dollars and 3,372 long term rentals Houston median 1,142. Tour before paying. Never wire money.

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NoFeeNest is a free, read-only directory of no-broker-fee, by-owner rental listings across 13 US cities — currently 114,342 no-fee listings, refreshed daily. The goal is simple: help renters skip the broker fee (often 12–15% of annual rent, or one month's rent) by surfacing places posted directly by owners.

How it works

NoFeeNest works like Craigslist: machines crawl public listing sources every day, normalize and de-duplicate the results, classify which ones are genuinely no-fee, and flag obvious scams. There are no accounts, no subscriptions, and no human in the loop running it. Every listing links straight to its original post — contact happens there, and NoFeeNest never handles messages or payments.

What "no fee" means here

A listing is marked no fee when it is posted by an owner with no broker commission, or when the text explicitly says so (e.g. "no fee", "by owner"). Rooms and sublets are treated as no-fee by default since they are almost always owner-posted. When the source is ambiguous and doesn't confirm it, the listing is not labeled no-fee.

Scam handling

Listings are auto-flagged with a caution or likely-scam badge using simple heuristics — prices far below the local median, classic scam phrasing, or requests for off-platform payment. NoFeeNest verifies nothing. Always confirm details in person and never wire money or pay a deposit before touring.

Cities covered

SF Bay Area · 12554 no-fee listings New York City · 11625 no-fee listings Los Angeles · 11544 no-fee listings Seattle · 10698 no-fee listings Boston · 10413 no-fee listings San Diego · 9620 no-fee listings Washington, DC · 8962 no-fee listings Chicago · 8860 no-fee listings Dallas · 6982 no-fee listings Denver · 6781 no-fee listings Orlando · 6135 no-fee listings Houston · 5834 no-fee listings Philadelphia · 4334 no-fee listings

How NoFeeNest stays free

The site is supported by optional affiliate links to services renters use after they find a place (insurance, movers, internet, furniture). It charges landlords nothing and never sells listings.

See the FAQ or browse move-in guides.

How NoFeeNest works (step by step)

A short pipeline for turning public no-fee rental posts into a free, read-only directory across 13 US cities (114,342 listings).

  1. Step 1. Crawl public listing sources daily

    Machines fetch public by-owner and no-fee rental posts from open sources each day, without requiring users to create an account.

  2. Step 2. Normalize, de-duplicate, and label no-fee

    Posts are cleaned into a common schema, duplicates are collapsed, and listings are labeled no-fee only when owner-posted or the text explicitly says so.

  3. Step 3. Flag obvious scam patterns

    Heuristics mark prices far below local medians, classic scam phrasing, and off-platform payment requests with caution or likely-scam badges. Nothing is human-verified.

About NoFeeNest — quick answers

How many long term rentals Los Angeles, NYC, and San Francisco are listed?

As of 2026-09-13, NoFeeNest shows 5,070 priced no-fee LA leads (median $1,947), 4,549 NYC, and 5,069 SF from live site inventory.