To the Editor,

Eliot’s cruelest month was April, but for those looking for an apartment or share in the greater Boston area, the cruelest month is August. Leases expire, students return and finding a good apartment-with the right size, location and price-can try the patience of a saint. Now there is a new option in greater Boston real estate, Grand Central Apartments, that can help get an apartment early, which can mean lower rent and a better space.

Even now your readers are scouring greater Boston, either on their own or with one of 6000 hungry brokers. Looking on one’s own means missing out on the majority of apartments, which never make it to the newspaper or Internet because brokers have already rented them and pocketed a profit. Short of paying a crippling broker’s fee and working around a broker’s schedule, the best places will elude even the most diligent.

But that’s not true anymore; Grand Central Apartments is democratizing the process. For a one-time service fee far lower than any broker’s fee, Grand Central offers access to constantly updated listings, personal help finding a place and working with owners, and a bumper crop of tools, extras and guarantees.

Grand Central keeps a leg up on brokers by being an owner’s best friend. Unlike brokers, Grand Central never charges an owner to fill a vacancy, and never sends them unqualified candidates, so potential tenants from Grand Central get preferential treatment when competing for a place or-gasp!-negotiating a rent.

Grand Central features the first and only constantly updated database of owners, landlords and management companies; the flexibility to see apartments on your own time; and the full-service Grand Central Roommates service, which screens both new and existing roommates, matches people up based on a wealth of criteria and offers sharing agreements to protect everybody.

Grand Central loves a challenge and using relationships with owners to make even the most particular customer happy. Please contact Grand Central at (617) 204-5600 or www.grandcentralapartments.com for more information or to get an interview with the proprietors, clients, or some of the owners that prefer to work with Grand Central’s clients.

Finding an apartment shouldn’t be so difficult. Finally someone is bringing a little common sense to real estate in greater Boston.

Regards,

Jesse Grinberg