Find a location where you believe worth the shot. Go there and look around for several rental agencies.

They will show you different apartments in the surrounding area. If you're not satisfied with the area (no shopping centers, no metro, etc), then choose another location according to the distance to your working place, the environment, etc.

Online, you often have the risk that they put an ad just to get your contact number and when you go there, they tell you the apartment has been rented out.

whatever you do do not use echinacities classifieds never use echinacities for finding an apartment they do have listings along with craigslist for the major cities but do not use echinacities for anything because they have a crazy cat in a tie infestation