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How To Negotiate an Apartment Lease

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

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5 Tips to Save on your Monthly Rent

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

One thing to consider when buying any service or product is that everything is negotiable. Below are some tips and tricks to use when trying to save money on your lease. 1) Look for rental properties during these months (Nov - Dec - Jan - Feb) : These are historically the worst ...

Top 11 Real Estate Widgets

Monday, June 9th, 2008

There are millions of widgets being designed by programmers and added to WidgetBox, FaceBook, and Google. What are the top real estate widgets? Here is what we found: For Sale Properties  Trulia Widgets: Home Appraisal  Zillow Widgets: eppraisal Widgets: Rentals and Rental Rates  rentBits Widgets: Zilpy Widgets: Classifieds  vFlyer widgets: Real Estate Investing  BiggerPockets Widgets: Real Estate Research  AlosResearch Widgets: Mapping RentVine Widgets:  Real Estate News MSNBC Real Estate Widget: Topix ...

Consumer Psychology Towards Prices - Pricing your Rental

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Odd Number Pricing From - Ohio State University Fact Sheet Odd number pricing refers to setting a price just below the psychological breaks in the dollar, such as a price is set at 49 cents or 99 cents rather than 50 cents or $1. Prices may be set at 19 cents or ...

Is Your Real Estate Blog in a Jam?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Blog Rush, the widget we have on the side of our blog, recently released their blog search product called Traffic Jam. It aims to make sense of the millions of blogs out there. As the consumer traffic to this site, I think this could be another great way to increase traffic ...

Seth Godin’s Advice to Real Estate Agents “Quit Now”

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Seth Godin recently gave a presentation to real estate agents and he told them "to quit selling real estate."  He states: "The agents who built their business on low interest rates, easy money and speculation (the order takers) have left the building.......In fact, I think this is an extraordinary opportunity for ...

Rental Sites and their Blogs

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

I wanted to add a list of rental sites that have a blog. I think all sites should increase their presence with a blog. It helps the rental industry if more of us speak out and share information. If there are more, comment and I will add. RentVine Blog MyNewPlace Blog Hotpads Blog ForRent Blog TenantMarket ...

AOL User Data and Search Queries on Rentals

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

In 2006, AOL released information of over 20 million search queries collected from 650,000 users over a 3 month period. AOL released the information and stated, "The goal of this collection is to provide real query log data that is based on real users. It could be used for personalization, ...