Creating ads on Craigslist

[Bastian P.]

I have been using postlets.com to create ads for apartment rentals. I really like their design. But after a few posts, Craigslist starts flagging all my ads automatically that were created with postlets.

When I submit "plain" ads (without HTML) directly in craigslist they are shown, no flagging at all. So I assume CL does not like too many posts created with postlets and/or HTML.

Have you made similar experience? What tool can you recommend to post ads on craigslist?

Thanks,
Bastian

[Karen Margrave]

Bastian P. It's probably not the design of your ad getting flagged, it's probably another investor that doesn't want the competition. Try just placing a generic ad on there that's not from postlets, and see what happens. That's happened to me many times in So Cal in the construction section, I put ads on and they get flagged.

Craigslist is basically useless here for real estate, as agents bombard it with links to their listings, even on the FSBO pages.