Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Last month I received word that my property manager has served my tenant an eviction notice for not paying his rent. My property manager also received numerous calls from the HOA stating that the police visit the unit once a week because my tenant was fighting with neighbors. Here is ...
Posted in Tenants | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
A very simple trick to stop your dog from peeing on and killing your grass is to add lemon juice or tomato juice into her food. You don't need much. A tablespoon of lemon juice or about a half cup of tomato juice will do. Both the tomato and lemon ...
Posted in Rental Tips, Rental Tricks | No Comments »
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Ning.com, a social network platform that allows anyone to easily add their own social network said they have surpassed the 100,000 social networks added. Ning.com was started by Marc Andreeseen who was the original brains behind Netscape that was sold to AOL for $4.2 billion.
It looks like there are close ...
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Company: RentVine.com
URL: rentvine.com
Blog: rentvine.com/blog
Founded: Updated 2005
Owned By: 3D Listings LLC (d.b.a. RentVine.com)
Advertising Costs:
Ad runs for 40 days
$38 - Basic
$41 - Bold
$63 - Premium
Product Offering:
RentVine is best know for their high search engine rankings and blog written by Dave Dugdale. They offer real estate investors and property managers the ability to ...
Posted in RentVine, rental sites | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Company: RentalHomesPlus
URL: www.rentalhomesplus.com
Founded: 2006
Owned By: Classified Ventures, LLC
Advertising Costs:
30 day ad = $49
60 day ad = $79
or 'Run till it Rents' for only $99!
Product Offering:
RentalHomesPlus which is owned by Classifieds Ventures, the parent site of Apartments.com, Cars.com, HomeGain and others is consistently ranked high in Google paid rankings and offers ...
Posted in RentalHomesPlus, rental sites | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Lisa and Carrie are currently at the NARPM conference in Arizona. Our first conference was last year in Vermont. It is always a great time to meet property managers and other vendors. Most of whom we work with directly. Unfortunately I was unable to make it this year but will ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
An article written by Caroline S. Latham of RealFacts discusses the names of apartment communities and how they could have received their name by destroying what was once there.
The famous sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld pointed out that people tend to name the things they build for what was destroyed in ...
Posted in Rental Market | No Comments »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
While running a successful rental marketing company and renting out my numerous rental properties. I have picked up a few tricks along the way.
Below are 20 ways you can rent out your home faster (There are plenty more ideas and if you have some please comment and I can add ...
Posted in Rental Marketing | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
From Glenn Roberts Jr. of Inman News:
ActiveRain, an online real estate blogging community and social network with about 47,000 members, has filed a lawsuit against property-search giant Move Inc. that seeks millions in damages and alleges that Move broke the law when it backed out of an acquisition plan ...
Posted in Real Estate News | No Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Awhile back I was watching an episode of CSI Las Vegas where they used a laser machine to completely map out a crime scene. The laser immediately calculated all dimensions of the room, showed all furniture and even showed the texture of the carpet and paint on the wall.
Here is ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
An interesting play by Weather.com. They recently acquired LakeRentals.com and its sister site CoastRentals.com. Seems like they are trying to get the benefits of Search Engine Optimization and display their advertising on these sites as well as weather related information for the vacation rental home market.
Posted in Rental Acquisitions | No Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
As our first post, we wanted to do a single family home rental market 101. We could write for days in regard to the rental market but we will try keep it to under 500 words: Because I am lazy, I will refer to the Single Family Home Market ...
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