http://www.rentingnews.com Tips to help rent your apartment, house or condo Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:37:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever dreamed about owning a beach house?  My wife and I have talked about it many times and we are always looking at the prices to see if by magic they came down enough for us to afford one.  Yesterday I spent a little time looking at homes ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/57 I took a quick look at Cuil today, the new search engine started by former Google employees.  So far, it looks pretty good for RentalsOnline.com.  We are already getting traffic from them and the site comes up on the first page when searching for rentals in a lot of cities. ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/56 I noticed the other day that Rentalads.com is displaying listings from Apartments.com.  It will be interesting to see if that helps them or hurts them.  The added content from the listings should improve their results in the search engines and possibly with property managers, but the ads take renters away ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/53 A small change was made to the email form on RentalsOnline.com.  It is now placed at the top of the actual listing page where renters can type a quick note to the landlord.  This makes it even easier for renters to inquire about an ad.  The updated form now includes a "captcha" that requires a renter ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/52 Google does a lot of interesting things with their search results.  You never really know what to expect they will include.  I did a search for the word “moving” and came up with this set of images above any website listings.  It is not really what I would have expected ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/51 I just finished an interview with a reporter from Real Estate Weekly about an article they are writing on “tips for renters”.  We discussed a lot of the important topics that renters should be aware of when they are ready to move.  As a landlord and property manager for many ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/50 My financial consultant called me yesterday to let me know a mutual fund I had was not doing well.  We agreed to sell the position and move it to a more conservative investment as the financial markets continue to be volatile.  Times like this make me glad I invested in ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/49 I had a great conversation with a landlord from Mississippi who had several rental properties she wanted to advertise.  She needed some help getting her ads posted because she lived in a very rural area and did not have high speed Internet access.  The women informed me that in the ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/48 Driving around the Orlando area, I could not help but notice how much new construction of timeshares and vacation homes was going on.  We stayed in Kissimmee, about 10 minutes from Disney and there were hundreds of condos and townhouses just in our development.  Many of these homes were clearly ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/47 I am here in Florida just before the presidential primary takes place and the political ads are in abundance.  One that I have found very interesting is for John McCain where he promises to make the Bush capital gains tax cut permanent.  Why is this important for rental property owners?  Well I ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/46