Rental Advertising | Rent Your Home Marketing

Data on Cheap Apartments For Rent

2010-04-20T02:51:00Z

With the sluggish economy, there has been an increase in search queries for cheap apartments for rent. This of course makes sense as individuals and families are looking for less expensive places to live.

Google Trend data shows this increase in search volume for the last 4 years. The trends seems like it is going to continue to climb.

The Orlando Rental Market

2010-04-15T23:20:00Z

We recently go back from Orlando looking for rental properties to buy. The Orlando houses for rent market is completely saturated. Over the past year, this has meant great prices for investors.

The rental rates in Orlando are improving but the increase in supply with foreclosure may begin to put downward pressure on the rental prices. Trulia is also showing average for sale prices flattening out.

Overall, it looks like the market is picking up but only time will tell.

Reasons Why Rental and Occupancy Rates are Down

2009-02-26T19:42:00Z

The rentBits blog wrote a post about the rental and occupancy rates and why they are down in some markets. The top 4 reasons on why these two are dropping are:

The Shadow Market
Conversions
Migration
A decrease in Salaries

New Rental Blog - Tips and News for the Rental Industry

2009-02-26T19:34:00Z

We are going to start to add more rental related tips and news to a new Rent Marketer blog. There is not much there but we hope to continue to add relevant content and news for the rental space.

Top Rental Search Cities for rentBits

2009-01-05T22:10:00Z

Our rental search engine, rentbits.com, has been growing each month since launch. We recently wrote about the top cities in which Google Analytics tracks the cities and traffic for rentbits. It can be found here.

On another note, we wanted to increase traffic to specific cities on rentBits to help drive more leads to our clients. rentBits currently crawls over 500,000 active rental listings each day and we wanted to make this available for the top cities in the US.

Below are some of the cities we are looking to get more traffic for.

Atlanta Austin Boston Chicago Colorado Springs Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis New York Oakland Orange County Orlando Palo Alto Philadelphia Phoenix Portland Sacramento Saint Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Seattle Washington, DC

Searching For Property Managers

2008-11-12T20:50:00Z

At Rent Marketer we have a lot of property managers as advertisers. We wanted to experiement with a property management directory where we give real estate investors or anyone looking for property managers one place to find property management service.

We have launched pmlistings.com in a few cities and we will continue to add cities and states as time permits. If you have a property management firm you would like added please let us know by commenting below.

Educating Users on Rental Scams

2008-09-17T17:34:00Z

Rent Marketer has released a new blog called rentalscams.org that aims to educate renters, property managers, owners and agents on the many different types of rental scams that are out there.

Please write to us if you have an rental scam stories.

rentBits Index Now Over 400,000 Rental Properties

2008-08-05T15:47:00Z

At rentbits.com, they are constantly searching the web looking for available rental properties. They now have over 400,000 active rental properties consisting apartments, houses, townhomes and condos for rent.

If are you interested in getting your listings into rentBits.com, please submit them.

Apartment Listings with Photos Drive more Leads

2008-07-29T15:08:00Z

As you might have guessed, apartments for rent listings that have at least one photo, drive more rental inquiries than listings with no photos.

We see this on the rental side as well as the for sale side. The Sellsius blog recently wrote about Point2 Technologies research on photos for the for sale market.

They found that "the study of 100,000 active listings over the first quarter of 2008 did confirm that listings without photos generated virtually no buyer interest."

Ben Bernanke Loves Real Estate 2.0

2008-06-30T19:21:00Z

the rentBits.com blog did a very creative collage of over 130 real estate web 2.0 logos and made them up as Ben Bernankes face. They used open source software to create the look of Ben Bernanke. It is a fun project. Go take a look at it here.

Houses for Rent Trends

2008-06-20T21:40:00Z

Google trends shows that houses for rent is out pacing apartments for rent in terms of searched traffic. Below is the most recent google trends data for these two search words.

Dave Dugdale Launches PM - Property Management Research

2008-06-19T22:42:00Z

I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Dave Dugdale of RentVine.com. He just launched a new property management research site and I was the first video. You can view the here.

Houses for rent in Boise

2008-06-05T20:11:00Z

Our sister company, rentBits.com now has over 1000 active houses for rent in Boise. Rental properties in Boise have been in large demand and continue as the for sale market continues to take a slide.

The average rental rates in Boise for single family homes is around $859 per month.

Rentals in Phoenix - Times are Looking Better

2008-05-23T16:08:00Z

The rental market in Phoenix is picking up. We are seeing many more renters searching for houses for rent in phoenix across our network of rental sites.

In fact, on average we are seeing about 25 phone and emails being generated for each property that is on the rental market in Phoenix.

The average rental rates in Phoenix are also strong:

Average Rental Rates in Phoenix is $1338

1 bedroom - $778
2 bedroom - $1104
3 bedroom - $1316
4 bedroom - $1623

rentBits Launches Free Average Rental Price Tool and Widget

2008-04-30T23:50:00Z

Our Sister site, rentBits, recently launched a free average rental price tool for renters looking to find the average rental price of rental properties anywhere in the United States.

The average rental rate tool searches the web and rentBits data to find the average rental rate of more than 18,000 cities in the United States.

rentBits also offers this free average rental rates widget to anyone who wants to add this to their site.

Below is an example of what the tool looks like:

Get this widget

Houses for rent in Denver, CO

Apartment Marketer Has Re-Launched With New Pricing

2008-04-21T17:53:00Z

Apartment Marketer launches with a new look and new pricing. After months of testing and feed back from REITs, Property Managers and Owners, Apartment Marketer has launched a new innovative pricing program for apartment communities looking to fill their vacancies faster.

Apartment Marketer’s solution. We offer a hybrid pricing model that has the benefits of the subscription model and cost per lead model.

Apartment Marketer’s pricing is the most unique in the industry. Here is how it works:

Communities post their floor plans for free and Apartment Marketer posts those floor plans to over 60 Rental and Classifieds Sites
Communities only pay when a phone or email lead is received.
Once a community receives 4 leads, all leads after that are free (This ensures a community never pays more than $100 per month per community

rentBits.com Launches

2008-03-14T01:57:00Z

We are very excited to announce a new rental search engine called rentBits.com. We launched it earlier this week and we have been busy interviewing with the press.

We have indexed hundreds of thousands of rental listings including rental homes and apartments. You can search for homes for rent in denver, rental houses in phoenix, or anywhere else in the United States.

We will continue to add listings to the index, search functionality and other great features to help renters find the perfect rental house.

Apartments For Rent vs Homes For Rent

2007-10-20T15:42:00Z

On our RentBits blog, I discussed search trends between apartments for rent and homes for rent in terms of search volume.

Read my thoughts on why I think homes for rent will surpass apartments in Google search queries in 2008.

Never Lose a Phone Lead Again

2007-10-04T12:39:00Z

We at Rent Marketer, just announced a new product feature that will allow property managers, real estate investors and agents to never lose a phone lead again all without losing your privacy.

We take privacy both on the consumer and advertiser side very seriously. When an advertiser posts with Rent Marketer, we hide the email address and phone number to protect privacy. When a consumer calls one of our ads, we don’t display the entire phone number of the consumer to protect their privacy.

We have found that 1 in 2 phone calls go unanswered and some never leave a message. This means you have a lost lead. With our new click to call service, a phone lead will never be lost again.

Here is how it works.

1) A potential tenants calls your ad
2) They get your message machine and don’t leave a message
3) You login to your Rent Marketer account and check all phone leads
4) You click on the phone number next to your property address to connect with the potential tenant
5) We connect you to the potential tenant absolutely free

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We hope you enjoy this new feature. It is still in Beta so please give us your feedback.

Receive Free Rental Advertising

2007-09-26T19:10:00Z

It is finally here. You can now receive free ads when you refer someone to use the Rent Marketer Service.

Friends and Colleagues Referral Program

Enjoy yet another benefit of RentMarketer.com!

Invite your friends and colleagues to join RentMarketer.com and receive a free ad when they sign up and pay for an ad!

It is as easy as 1,2,3!

Think of people that might benefit
Go to the referral form here
Fill out the form for up to five friends and/or co-workers and click submit!

Now just sit back, relax and once they sign up and post an ad, we will send you a voucher for a free ad!