His Web site bristles with society news beneath a blue, white and fuchsia header that is flanked by high-rent advertisements (Diane von Furstenberg, Bergdorf Goodman).
Langston Hughes's collection of Harlem rent-party advertisements.
Some buy print advertisements and rent billboards; others use Internet banners and viral videos.
In 2012, 18 years after the end of apartheid, he was looking for a room to rent and found an advertisement from a woman willing to share her house but only, the ad stipulated, with a white person.
In what officials say is a case of old-style discrimination in the new realm of cyberspace, a New Jersey landlord posted an Internet advertisement to rent apartments to "whites only," a lawsuit charges.
Though offers of free rent are especially obvious in advertisements for new buildings, where landlords have a clean slate of apartments to fill, they are also available in occupied buildings.
But under the new rules, hedge funds may be able to rent billboards, buy full-page advertisements in newspapers or have Web sites that offer the public a real look inside their operations and performance, as opposed to the password-protected sites most operate today.
Mr. Gunning, who runs marinas and owns rental properties in Hempstead, said he rented to people who answered newspaper advertisements and could afford a security deposit and the first month's rent.
At the time, apartments there were both for sale and for rent, and according to a newspaper advertisement in 1907, the large duplexes ranged from $1,200 to $4,000 monthly.
Stick to that budget, and discover the various advertisements and announcements for a house to rent.
