Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
We have discussed FlipKey in the past, and yesterday they opened their doors to everyone.
FlipKey was created out of frustration. While the founders were managing their own vacation rentals, they discovered that there was a lack of trust and consumer awareness among prospective guests searching for vacation rentals.
From the FlipKeyBlog:
FlipKey ...
Posted in FlipKey | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
HotPads.com, a map based rental search site, has launched featured listings. The Hotpads featured program allows advertisers to get more visibility for their properties in two ways.
1) The featured property will be highlighted on the map by a blue box.
2) They will replace the map icon with a large advertising ...
Posted in HotPads | 2 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
There is a rental home that is available for the summer for $150,000 per month. The rental is located in Malibu California and has 4 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms.
If you think the $150,000 is crazy, the security deposit is $300,000.
Posted in ForRent | No Comments »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
GlassDoor.com, a start-up in stealth mode will be launching shortly. The company is backed by a major silicon valley VC and is stacked with a team from Hotwire, Expedia, Microsoft and Zillow.
GlassDoor is not saying anything at all on what they are building but there is a good chance it ...
Posted in Glassdoor | 7 Comments »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Hay una variedad de sitios de alquiler que ofrecen una experiencia de usuario en español. En los Estados Unidos el español es hablado en el hogar por unos 28,1 millones de personas de 5 años o más.
Aproximadamente la mitad de los 28,1 millones de personas hablan Inglés muy bien de ...
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Being our first full week in search business, we wanted to share some of the top metro searches for the week of March 17th.
Top 10 Metro Searches
Houses for rent in Terre Haute, IN
Houses for rent in Pittsburgh, PA
Houses for rent in Reno, NV
Houses for rent in Overland Park, KS
Houses for ...
Posted in RentBits | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Wow!
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Posted in Search Engines | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Within 15 minutes, I added a Rental Timeline to rentBits.com using the the Google Gadget tool within Google Spreadsheets. I have no programming experience at all. In the past, this would have taken many programming hours.
Check it out. We will constantly be adding to the rental timeline. If you have ...
Posted in RentBits | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
I have been messing around with Google Doc's new feature called Gadgets. Essentially you can take your data from a spreadsheet and automatically make a gadget.
For example, I wanted to see what the most expensive rental house in phoenix is within rentBits and display it in a widget.
As the data ...
Posted in RentBits | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
If you are familiar with the site, hotornot.com, then you know that people can vote on who is the hottest man or woman from a showing of two photos.
Zillow just launched a similar tool called Zillow Dueling Digs. Instead of voting on people, you can vote on the best kitchens, ...
Posted in zillow | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Word is that Rentals.com is laying some people off. The Rental Blog at Rentvine goes into more detail on who they are.
Posted in Rentals.com | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
ThatRentalSite, a rental search site started by Jeremy Bencken who also started ApartmentRatings and sold to Internet Brands for millions, is using quantcast to open up their user visitor data.
In February, ThatRentalSite had the below stats:
Total Unique Visitors - 314,579
Total Pageviews - 997,735
Demographics:
70% of the searchers are Female
24% of the ...
Posted in rental sites | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Forget Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, Tribe, MeetUp, Ryze, and the other 350 social networking sites.
The greatest social network on Earth launched in beta and is called Isolatr.
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Mary McKnight, the owner of RSS Pieces, a Harvard Grad, an amateur fitness/bodybuilding competitor and an active real estate blogger knows how to get attention.
I ran across her blog and company after I read her post entitled Things Losers Say: SEO doesn't matter
Mary is not afraid to say what is ...
Posted in Active Rain | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Yelp is a review site where people can review and talk about what's great (and not so great) in the world. Users can review products or services within any industry. This includes reviews on property management.
If you are a property manager, you should make sure your company shows up within ...
Posted in property management | 3 Comments »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
We talk about the long tail a lot. We owe it to Chris Anderson who was the brain behind making this phrase popular within the technology industry. Take a look at his video on the long tail below.
Chris Anderson (video), the editor of WIRED , explores the four key stages ...
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
AllPropertyManagement, a website that helps owners of rental properties find a property manager, drives more property management leads than any other service.
AllPropertyManagement is the clear leader in property manager referrals and currently has a large date base of property managers.
The service is simple to use. If you are looking for ...
Posted in property management | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
In 2007, Facebook launched an online classifieds section called Marketplace. It allows anyone to post for sale items, jobs, real estate and rentals within their market.
For my market, Denver, the most recent posted rental properties were 2 and they were posted on March 11th. In Los Angeles, there were a ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
HomeRentals.net, the largest property management platform and software provider for the single family rental industy, has added another rental site to their portfolio of associated partners. Last month, MyNewPlace became the newest addition to the HomeRentals.net list of sites they syndicate listings to.
HomeRentals.net was founded in 1997 by Mike Anderson ...
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
IceRocket, the blog search site that has financial backing from Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and writer of Blog Maverick, has one of the best blog search experiences I have seen.
I like it better than Google Blog Search and Technorati. If you own a rental blog ...
Posted in Search Engines | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Within the rental industry, we have been seeing an increase in scammers trying to take advantage of renters looking for a rental property.
Here is how the scam works.
The scammer, usually from Nigeria, the UK or outside of the US, copies a residential rental ad from Craigslist and reposts it to ...
Posted in Craigslist | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
FlipKey, the vacation rental rental reputation service currently in private beta, may be launching soon. They had plans to launch in January but are taking a lot of the feedback from the vacation property managers and improving the product.
From TheAlarmClock.com:
FlipKey says it wants to help expand the vacation rental market ...
Posted in FlipKey | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Kijiji, the classifieds site owned by eBay is on a growth path destined to surpass Craigslist within 5 years. eBay has 25% ownership in Craigslist and finally realized they will never see a dime of that so decided to go head to head and launch Kijiji.
My prediction is that within ...
Posted in Craigslist, kijiji | 9 Comments »
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Our launch of rentBits.com yesterday was a huge success. We have been getting great press from SearchEngineWatch, CNET, ColoradoStartUps, TechRockies, Smart Money and others.
This morning, we got word that farmers or "Aliens" in Ohio have embraced rentBits. Below is a photo that was sent to us from Columbus, Ohio.
Posted in RentBits | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I said in my previous post that we would launch tomorrow. Seems like the engineers got a little excited and released it early. We are very excited to announce the launch of rentBits, a vertical rental search engine.
Here is our press release that will go out tomorrow:
Denver, CO - rentBits.com ...
Posted in RentBits | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Edgeio.com, the site that was once the edge for classifieds distribution and then fell off the edge of the internet, is now a one page site that offers a few Cape Town rentals.
In February, edgeio sold their assets to Looksmart and Vast.com. I am assuming both Looksmart and Vast didn't ...
Posted in Search Engines | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Last week, we launched our new Rent Marketer design which has been a great success. Tomorrow, we will be launching a new product called rentBits. We have taken a lot of feedback from property managers, owners, and partner sites to develop a product that we feel will help streamline the ...
Posted in RentBits | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Last month Google said that the iPhone receives 50 times more searches the any other handset in the world.
“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
When Larry and Sergey of Google were trying to come up with a name for the company, they thought they were spelling Googol ( 1 googol = 1.0 × 10 to the power of 100) correctly when they spelled it Google.
This misspelling was a good thing for the company since ...
Posted in Real Estate News, zillow | No Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Go check it out. Let us know what you think.
Posted in Rent Marketer | 2 Comments »
