I’ve started a new website to organize, catalyze and galvanize my hunt for a new apartment (no word yet on whether the hunt will be mesmerized). It’s called Find My Tel Aviv Apartment and its main objective is to advertise this fact: I will pay a finder’s fee to whoever gives me information leading to a signed rental contract.
Most available apartments in Tel Aviv never get advertised. They go to people’s friends, family members, coworkers or even casual acquaintances. Actually, most things work that way in Israel, and it makes life here very difficult for immigrants like me, since just by having fewer friends and virtually no family, there aren’t as many people who can help me.
I’m hoping that everyone I know will take note of my very genuine offer of a serious finder’s fee – one month’s rent, up to NIS 3500 – and make my apartment hunt their business by taking it to their friends, and their friends to their friends, and so forth. The site has been live for only a day or so, and already some people I don’t even know have tweeted the particulars of what I’m looking for in an apartment – so I do have a hunch that this could work.
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