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Having Trouble Finding a Pad? Maybe You Need a TikTok Apartment Scout · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: When you try to find an apartment, it's difficult to
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  Speaker 1: find one. And if you if there's a good one
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  Speaker 1: in a good location, with a good floor plan at
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  Speaker 1: a good price, it goes fast. Oh yeah, if you're
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  Speaker 1: working and you can't go see places all the time,
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  Speaker 1: or you can't take a day off to go see
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  Speaker 1: ten places. There are these TikTokers. They're being hired on
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  Speaker 1: the side to go essentially shoot a video of the
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  Speaker 1: hottest apartments, yeah, to send to you to then rent.
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  Speaker 1: But you pay them, you pay them.
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  Speaker 2: It's anywhere from like the hundreds to some are being
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  Speaker 2: paid thousands of dollars for these TikTok apartment scouts.
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  Speaker 1: People are essentially hiring creators to go then just they're
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  Speaker 1: only creating for them, right, They're not posting it. So
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  Speaker 1: they're creating a video of the apartments that are good,
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  Speaker 1: and then they're you're hiding them to send them directly
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and like once they do post them on their tiktoks,
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  Speaker 2: it's apartments that have already been rented out or like
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  Speaker 2: you know, so it's a kind of showcasing what they do.
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  Speaker 2: And so then you kind of like find your creator,
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  Speaker 2: find the TikToker that you want. Maybe they're specific to
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  Speaker 2: that area of apartments that you're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds a little extra.
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  Speaker 2: When you kind of think about it, but also it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a genius idea. I actually want to
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  Speaker 2: do it too. Like if I had free time, I go.
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  Speaker 2: I love looking at apartments and houses, like I would
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  Speaker 2: love this as a side gig.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got to take time off work and that
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  Speaker 1: time off work costs more than it does to cost
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  Speaker 1: somebody else to go do it, then it makes better
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  Speaker 1: sense to have somebody go do it so you can
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  Speaker 1: find something you need while you're at work. Right So
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely the trend right now for the competitive renting
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  Speaker 1: market out there. You're on air with Ryan's Seacrest. Checking
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  Speaker 1: off the boxes on your to do list can be
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  Speaker 1: a great feeling. And when it comes to check it
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  Speaker 1: off coverage, a state farm agent can help you choose
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