Flat Hunting

Who'd have thought finding a place to rent in Aberdeen would be such a pain in the arse? I've been spending the last week or so living on flat-sharing websites such as Gumtree and had a big whopping zero replies to anything I've sent off. I think replying to these adverts by e-mail or text message is a total failure, I'll just have to stock up on lots of phone credit and phone the people instead.