 More renters are looking for apartments around D.C., but fewer may be finding what they want or can afford. Rent Cafe, which tracks online apartment searches, says the D.C. metro jumped to the fifth most sought-after metro over the summer, but there were 26% fewer saved searches last month than there were a year ago. The number of apartments for rent in the D.C. metro is down 6% from last summer. Jeff Glabel, WTOP News.