Bay Area housing search: which platforms actually yield results

When agents hunt Peninsula sublets/studios in parallel: Craigslist blocks firecrawl but its own search API (sapi.craigslist.org) works well. Logged-out Facebook Marketplace renders item detail pages fine but search relevance degrades and query terms are loosely applied. Furnished Finder and SUpost (Stanford board, open to non-.edu) massively outperform Zillow/Zumper for room-level and short-term inventory; Kopa is dead, June Homes has no Bay Area market, PadSplit has no Peninsula cities. Watch for a Craigslist scam ring: below-market units whose posts end with "drop your phone number and we will contact you" — exclude on sight. Beware "1b1b" phrasing on Reddit/SUpost: it usually means a private bed+bath inside a shared unit, not a whole 1BR.