Websites for Italy apartment rentals

We booked our rental in Tuscany with Interchalet. Very large selection with excellent search functions on the website.

http://www.interchalet.co.uk/

Cross-Pollinate.com can help you in all three locations. Locally owned Rome business, run by an American couple.

Have had good luck w/all of these.

http://www.sleepinitaly.com/rome-apartments.

http://www.cross-pollinate.com/.

http://www.tuscanyaccommodation.com/?gclid=CPaP4emPosACFSsSMwodjxgA6A.

Have a great trip

Much more important than the website, is the individual apartment listing and the reviews. I look for lots of recent reviews, esp. if they include a comment that would not likely appear in a fake review, such as "even though the neighborhood is noisy, we still enjoyed it."

In addition to the sites already listed above, there are the following:
http://www.case-vacanza-italia.it/en/
http://www.waytostay.com/rome-apartments/
http://www.romeloft.com/
https://www.roomorama.com/
http://italy.worldwide-accom.com/italy/
http://www.flipkey.com/
http://www.holiday-velvet.com/
https://www.dwellable.com/

If you don't mind websites in Italian, you can try these:
http://immobiliare-case-vacanze.vivastreet.it/immobiliare-case-vacanze
http://www.homelidays.it/
http://www.homeaway.it/
http://www.subito.it/
http://www.housetrip.it/

You'll also find that most apartments for rent are listed on multiple sites, so if you want to see more reviews of a particular apartment, search for those by running a double-quote search on an unusual sentence from the apartment description, such as "it is in a quiet and tranquil position" or "The bedroom has a double bed and a spacious wardrobe".

Happy hunting.

Rick also recommends Cross-Pollinate, for those cities it covers.

Does anyone have any experience with AirBnB? Looking at booking an apartment through them for 3 nights in Florence.