Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
If you are currently looking for a section 8 application, we have some section 8 resources for you. The Section 8 voucher and certificate programs together help over 1.4 million households in the United States. There are massive amounts of information on section 8 and we wanted to aggregate ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Do you have GPS on your phone? A majority of the cell phones do not have GPS. This has limited the location based technologies and user experience. Google has once again solved this problem by offering location based search based on the location of the phone. This could have grand ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
As with many businesses, the rental market is extremely cyclical. Jan - August are the strongest months where renters are searching for rental houses. Sept - Dec are slower months.
We have ran extensive economic and behavior models on various rental traffic theories. We have come to the conclusion that renters ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
David Cohen, the founder of Colorado Startups and Tech Stars, wrote a post about Rent Marketer entitled Ex-Googlers rock on at Rent Marketer.
Colorado Startups, LLC invests in Colorado-based early stage startups. You can view the portfolio here.
Tech Stars provides seed funding, mentoring, advice, and connections to ten new companies in ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
From the recent eMarketer.com advertising report:
eMarketer projects that local online advertising spending In the US will reach $2.9 billion in 2007, only 13.4% of the total Internet market.
The sector is set to become a significant growth area for the maturing Internet ad space. ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I thought this was a rather interesting study on CEOs and real estate. Originally on the iPienso blog:
A new paper by Crocker Liu and David Yermack, ‘Where Are the Shareholder’ Mansions? CEOs’ Home Purchases, Stock Sales and Subsequent Company Performance.” Key finding:
When a CEO buys real estate, future company performance ...
Posted in Real Estate News | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
There is a great post written by Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners that I wanted to summarize:
Ad Networks: Why it’s better than ever to be a targeted content site
1) The longtail is getting longer (Compete data shows a 77 percent increase over the last 5 years of ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Realtors are constantly being bombarded by hundreds of vendors trying to get a piece of the multi billion dollar pie. Classified Intelligence recently did a Realtor survey about the proliferation of media choices.
Here were some of their findings:
47% of the Realtors surveyed said they are spending more for advertising this ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
If you are looking for property management companies to manage your rental property. Below are some good resources to find a property manager near you:
RentList
JustPropertyManagers
AllPropertyManagement
NARPM
RentMarketer
Landlord.com
RentBits Property Managers
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
If your lease agreement does not have anything about late fees, your landlord cannot impose one. However, some states allow landlords to refuse late rent and begin eviction even if the rent is one day late. Check with your local laws to see if your state is one of them.
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
is getting crowded.
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
2007 so far has been a so so year for real estate start-ups and acquisitions. Below is an aggregation of the top stories for real estate in 2007:
January:
MyCurrency let's "Wisdom of Crowds" predict real estate market
February:
Primedia Aquires RentalHouses.com for $8.5 Million.
March:
Whitefence raises $14 million
Hotpads raises $2.3 million
Oodle raises $11 million ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Borrell and Associates released their real estate outlook for 2007 - 2012.
While total ad spending on real estate has declined 3 percent this year, spending on the online segment has grown 25.8 percent, hitting $2.6 billion. We are projecting online real estate advertising to grow at a somewhat slower rate ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The Ubertor real estate blog did a quick interview with Seth Godin, the marketing guru and writer, and asked him three questions about real estate.
Ubertor: If you were a Realtor what one way would you market yourself differently?
Seth Godin: It wouldn’t be marketing, it would be what I DO. I ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
AT&T has just purchased Ingenio for an undisclosed amount.
Property Managers are always looking for new business. One way to get new clients is to advertise on local yellow page sites where owners are actively searching for property managers. The problem with most yellow page sites is you pay a fixed ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
I spent the weekend in Simi Valley California with my family. I spent my first 18 years there and saw the city grow to over 150,000 people.
The most recent 2000 Census data had total rental properties at 8,151 with a 3.8 % vacancy rate. 22% of the occupied housing units ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Vanessa Fox, an old Google Colleague , has left Zillow to work for Ignition Partners. She was with Zillow for a total of 5 months.
My other passion is helping to build the web and working with start ups on innovative, kick-ass ideas. I’ll be doing more of that, particularly as ...
Posted in zillow | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 16th, 2007
An oral lease agreement is an agreement between you and the landlord that is done verbally. Although not recommended, oral agreements are perfectly legal. They are more common in month to month agreements but in some states are legal for leases up to 1 year.
Rental Tip:
Don't do oral lease agreements. ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
If your lease agreement has a specific date when rent is due, that is enforceable by law. If the lease doesn't state otherwise, state laws make the rent due on these days:
1st of the month, in advance:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Hawaii
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Last Day of the Month:
California
Indiana
Michigan
New York
North Dakota
South Dakota
Posted in Rental Tips | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 16th, 2007
Seems like Hearst and MediaNews group read my post about the newspapers. They have just dumped $20 million into Kaango, a classifieds site that has deep relationships with the papers. Kaango's motto is post a classified Print-to-web, Web-to-web, and Web-to-print on one platform.
The firm was founded in 2003 by CEO ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Forbes.com released a slide show of the top cities for young professionals just out of college.
The top 5 cities:
1. New York
2. San Francisco
3. Atlanta
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington, D.C.
Denver Colorado is 10th on this list.
To view Forbes.com's full slide show on top cities for young professionals, click here.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Stacy from Washington writes: "My Neighbors keep me up at all hours of the night. I live in a Condo and they party every night. Please help!"
Stacy, we are sorry to hear that you are losing sleep because of your neighbors. We do have some advice for you though. Because ...
Posted in Rental Tips | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
FatDoor, a company we have written about before, has hired Jennifer Dulski as CEO. Dulski was previously at Yahoo. Fatdoor has raised $5.5 million in funding and hopes to revolutionize the way neighbors interact online.
How could this be applied to rentals? Imagine if you are moving to a new location, ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over Q3 2006. This is expected to reach $42 billion by 2011.
Posted in Rental Advertising, Rental Marketing | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Dominion Enterprises, the parent company of sites like homes.com, eneighborhoods.com, Agent Advantage and others, is going to be rolling out a pay per lead product for agents through their Agent Advantage website. According to 360digest, there will be 3 tiers of pricing:
Tier 1: 10 Guaranteed Leads: $499.95
Tier 2: 20 ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
An email from RentalHouses.com was sent to advertisers who had the unlimited monthly postings plan. They say they are removing the unlimited plan for SEO reasons. Hum? They will be offering a pay per month per property plan starting in December.
I am emailing to ensure that you are aware of ...
Posted in RentalHouses | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Want to earn $10 million? Google is giving this away to programmers who build the best applications that run on the Google Mobile platform. This is a perfect platform for real estate.
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Posted in Real Estate Technology | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
For those of you who are looking for rental agreement forms. Below is a list of sites that offer various rental forms.
CompleteLandlord - $14.95 (Many Forms. Recommended)
Rental Agreements.net - $9.95
Rental Cash Flow - Free (Adobe) $3.99 Customizable
Rental Authority - Free
LawDepot - $17.50
EZLandlordForms - Free Trial than a Cost
Sublet - ...
Posted in Rental Tips | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
We have received more emails on individuals looking for rental tips. We will be adding to our collection on rental tips but for those of you who missed our previous posts, please find them below:
Top 5 Ways to Save on Monthly Rent
Look for rental properties during these months (Nov - ...
Posted in Rental Tips | 1 Comment »
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Opus Research did an all business survey that asked marketers that were not advertising online why they are not. Below are the percentages. A total of 627 were surveyed.
Lack of Budget - 25%
Confusion. Don't know how or where to begin - 20%
The internet is not relevant to our business - ...
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