As you well know, I’m a big fan of cool web apps, especially meta-apps like HousingMaps. Here’s a new one called RentSlicer for all you So-Cal kiddies still paying the man on the first of the month. It takes feeds from Craigslist classifieds and calculates average rents for different housing types and neighborhoods.

Turns out I’m getting a deal on my apartment, both in terms of the entire city, as well as the specific location I’m in.

It also turns out that if certain bloggers who work for a certain online poker site would only move out to Panorama City, we could probably save a bit more on rake.

Of course, the real way to use RentSlicer is in conjunction with HousingMaps. Use HousingMaps to find a place, use RentSlicer to comparison shop or negotiate a better deal.

I <3 Internet. Thanks to Curbed.LA for blogging about it in the first place.