One of the first things that I did when I was looking for a new place to live is to decide the locations that I wanted to search for housing in.  This was helpful during my search for a flat because I was able to narrow things down and only look at places which were located in the area that I wanted to live in.  After I had done this, I made a list of several different flats to rent Bathgate, made appointments to go look at them and from there I chose the flat that I liked the best and signed the paperwork so I could go ahead and move in.