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+## Usage
+The program can be started by running `python3 apartment_looker.py` in which case it'll create a file for each
+website it looks at, it'll populate each file with the apartments it finds and it'll send an email to specific email
+with a link to each apartment. The program can be run without sending emails like
+`python3 apartment_looker.py --populate_lists`, in which case it'll just populate the json files.