Craigslist Apartment Search Facts

• 1 out of 5 emails sent are responded to at all
• most of those lead to an actual viewing
• 4 out of 5 viewings range from underwhelming to absolute crap
• 1 out of 5 viewings are actually decent

Conclusion: send 50 emails. 20% will be responded to, of which 20% will be decent places, leads to a choice between 2 apartments. Great.