<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"40 million people move each year in the U.S., spending a total of 1.6 billion hours on their search. The process of looking for an apartment can be a total nightmare, particularly if you live in New York City.\r\n\r\nThe three founders of\u00A0Nestio, CEO Caren Maio, CCO Matthew Raoul and CTO Michael O\u2019Toole set out to disrupt the online real estate\u00A0industry after launching out of\u00A0TechStars' New York City accelerator program this April. Put simply, it's a social and well-designed place for users to keep track of and organize their apartment hunt.\u00A0When we first\u00A0wrote about Nestio\u00A0it was just testing its platform in New York City. Since then, Nestio raised $750K in seed funding led by Quotidian Ventures, with contributions from a number of angel investors, including Joanne Wilson, Rick Webb, Josh Auerbach, and David Tisch.\r\n\r\nNestio offers users the ability to make better decisions with local photos, timely notifications, location-based context like nearby restaurants as well as building history.\u00A0Once inside Nestio, users can add a \u201Ccollaborator\u201D (e.g. future roommate) from Facebook to instantly view saved listings and add some of their own. Users are also able to share listings for feedback opportunities from friends and family on social networks. Nestio also has\u00A0a shiny new iPhone app\u00A0so you can use it as an apartment\u00A0hunting\u00A0companion on a Saturday morning (when your roommate is too hungover).\r\n\r\nToday, Nestio announced that it's launching nationwide, which\u00A0means it's\u00A0updated its site support outside of NYC specific sites and added more robust mapping functionality to cover the entire US.\u00A0When it first launched its beta in April, it initially supported rentals on StreetEasy and Craigslist. Now, Nestio has added support for some of the most popular sites across the country where people search for rentals including Curbed, Prime NYC, Naked Apartments, Trulia, Zillow, eBay Classifieds, Oodle, Westside Rentals, Realtor.com, and NYTimes.com.\r\n\r\nTake a tour of the website below:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNestio is also unveiling its new site design today. &amp;quot;We\u2019ve been talking to users about how they prefer to save listings with us, and we\u2019ve updated our functionality to serve them even better,&amp;quot; says\u00A0Maio. Nestio's\u00A0bookmarklet allows users to add a listing to Nestio from any rental site or\u00A0users can copy/paste urls from the list of supported sites. The user also has the option to add a listing manually to the website. Currently, brokerage firms and management company sites let users save lists of their apartment search, which means that users have 10-15 different log-ins and places to go to check up on apartments, including digging through email. But now, using Nestio\u2019s bookmarklet, users can simply click to add all these different listings from external sites\u00A0into one, if you will, nesting place.\r\n\r\nCheck out the new site design here:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHappy apartment hunting! And if you use Nestio for your next apartment search, tell us about your experience in the comments!\r\n\r\nFeature image: Shutterstock/Valua Vitaly"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/10/19/nestio-expands-its-apartment-rental-platform-nationwide/>