We are also in the early stages of a homepage redesign to bring you more information front and center.  We hope to have a report on that next month.  Stay tuned!

First and foremost, we are providing RSS feeds for the Latest News and Most Popular Listings.  You can use these feeds in your preferred RSS reader, or if you’re new to the RSS scene, let us suggest the Google Reader for you.

The feature we’re most excited about, however, are these brand new widgets which can be easily added with a few clicks of the mouse.  Now you can have these widgets easily added to Windows Vista, Apple Dashboard, iGoogle homepage, Opera, Windows Live, or Netvibes.com.

Check out the Popular Listings or Latest News widgets below!

We’ve fixed a few things that have been driving us crazy. Maybe they’ve been driving you crazy too. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Instant Photos – No more waiting for your photos to be approved.  As soon as you send them, they are visible.

• Revamped Listing View – We’ve reorganized the listing view page.   You can check out a sample link here: http://www.myctrentals.com/index.php/web/view/131

• Integrated Google Maps – See where a property is located without leaving the site.

Stay tuned for more!

-Brian

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More stay tuned for more news in 2009…

- Brian

More Exposure
The most notable change we have made will be transparent to most users, but carries the biggest impact. We have optimized the site to make it easier for search engines like Google to crawl our site. What does this mean for you? Simply put, more exposure. Potential renters will have an easier time finding you and your property than ever before.

Easier-to-use Control Panel
The most apparent change is a slightly redesigned control panel. We have aimed to eliminate some of the confusion surrounding managing your property listings, most notably, “activating” and “deactivating” properties.

We’ve also added a new “preview” button so you can view your property listing directly from the control panel. This eliminates the hassle of doing a search to view your property listing.

Lastly, we have changed the security deposit field to allow text, in addition to dollar figures. Many users expressed the need to display security deposit information as text, as in, “One Month’s Rent” instead of dollar amounts. You spoke, we listened.

More to Come
That’s all for now, but there is more to come. We have some great new features debuting in the coming months that we can’t wait to show you. Until then –

Brian Daley

on behalf of:

The MyCTRentals.com Team

Brian & Dave

Hello Property Owners!

First off, I just want to take a chance to wish you all a Happy New Year; hopefully it has been just that only a few weeks into 2008! We’re glad to have you aboard.

I have recently noticed quite a few property owners who are creating their listings, but not activating them for renters to find on the site. I can’t be sure if this accidental or on purpose, but in many cases I am assuming it is accidental. If this has happened to you, I would love to get your feedback if you were unaware of the “activation” feature of the listing. Please send me an email at dave@myctrentals.com. To ensure your listing can be found in the search results, after you create or edit the property, you can use the left hand navigation to go to the “Manage All Listings” page. From this page, you will be able to activate your listing, add or change photos, and edit any details of the property. Your listing must be present under the “Active Listings” section of this page before it can be found by the site’s visitors.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Dave Pagini

on behalf of:

The MyCTRentals.com Team

Brian & Dave

To our friends and customers:

Each year during this time, it’s important to us to take a few minutes off from regular work to send our heartfelt wishes out to you and your family for a happy and safe holiday season. With the weeks leading up to Christmas being hectic for so many, it’s easy to forget what’s important during this time of year. We here at MyCTRentals.com just want to extend our gratitude to you because it is good friends and customers like you that make our site worth running.

May your holiday be filled with joy, and may the coming year be overflowing with all the good things in life!

Dave Pagini

on behalf of:

The MyCTRentals.com Team

Brian & Dave

Hello Property Owners!

We just wanted to take a chance and thank you for taking the time to join the MyCTRentals.com community, we sincerely appreciate it! If you like the site, and happen to know anyone else who could benefit by listing here for free, please let them know about us.

One trend we have noticed in the current listings is a lack of photos. Just to be sure you can find the photo upload section, if you click on “Manage All Listings” in the left hand navigation, above each listing there is a blue bar with a link to “add/change photos” for that particular listing. Photos are a proven method to increase traffic to your listings from the search results page, so help yourself out and upload a photo. Please contact us if you are having any problems, or need assistance.

Once again, it’s great to have you aboard!

Dave

on behalf of:

The MyCTRentals.com Team

Barry, Brian and Dave