MoveMent App: iPhone geo-tagging means what you see in a rental listing is what you get

By: Leah Hochbaum Rosner

Finding a new apartment in NYC is no easy task. Less-than-scrupulous brokers regularly post listings to sites like Zillow, Trulia, RentHop and Craigslist that seem to depict paradise on earth, but are actually more like holes that aren’t fit for human habitation.

It’s tough to tell whether what you’re seeing online is what you’re going to get, and that is exactly the problem MoveMent—the focus of this week’s Real. Est. List Spotlight Series—is designed to solve.

MoveMent is a new iPhone app that aims to take the uncertainty out of apartment-hunting by using a cellphone’s GPS to verify that uploaded photos were snapped at a particular address.

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