Social Rental Search - A RentAdvisor Blog http://www.rentadvisor.com/blog Searching for a new place to live? Use the social media tools you love. Thu, 24 May 2012 19:00:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 ApartmentRatings.com Partners with RentAdvisor http://www.rentadvisor.com/blog/2012/05/24/apartmentratings-com-partners-with-rentadvisor/ http://www.rentadvisor.com/blog/2012/05/24/apartmentratings-com-partners-with-rentadvisor/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 19:00:19 +0000 beth http://www.rentadvisor.com/blog/?p=899

Most Prolific Apartment Review Site Now Accepting RentAdvisor-Powered Ratings & Reviews

May 24, 2012 – For nearly a decade ApartmentRatings.com has been at the vanguard of providing consumer ratings and reviews to apartment seekers throughout the US. As part of a continuing effort to provide more balanced ratings and reviews, RentAdvisor has partnered with ApartmentRatings.com and their Verified Resident Program.

“Over the last ten years we have focused on providing consumers with as much renter feedback and insight as possible when making a leasing decision,” explains Wade Hewitt, VP of ApartmentRatings.com. “Our new partnership with RentAdvisor works in conjunction with our Verified Resident Program and offers properties multiple solutions to solicit solid ratings and reviews, which in turn will be displayed on ApartmentRatings.com.”

RentAdvisor is now helping management companies and properties generate a balanced review and ratings set through various email and social methods. The company then pushes those ratings and reviews out to ApartmentRatings.com, search engines, social sites, property sites, etc.

“ApartmentRatings.com is clearly the leading ratings and reviews site for apartment communities,” said Jamie Gallo, CEO and co-founder of RentAdvisor.com. “Our service works with the apartment community to solicit ratings and reviews from their entire resident base, which results in balanced reviews. These legitimate, verified renter reviews are then displayed on ApartmentRatings.com and everyone is a winner.”

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RentWiki Changes Name to RentAdvisor, Gets Multi-Million Dollar Investment, and Launches Killer New Product

 

March 20, 2012 – Businesses don’t get better by chance, they get better by change.

 

“In the past 18 months we’ve worked directly with thousands of renters,” said Robert Turnbull, president and co-founder of the company. “We’ve learned a few things: First, ratings and reviews have a much bigger influence on the renter’s decision to visit an apartment community than anyone realizes. Second, what the Apartment Industry needs is a way to proactively tackle the apartment reviews and ratings proliferating the Internet.”

 

Recently a number of companies have announced what they are referring to as “reputation management” or “reputation monitoring” products. However, these services simply aggregate existing reviews whereas RentAdvisor has created a new product designed to actually enhance the online reputation of apartment communities and management companies.

 

“Now is the time to take action,” explained Jamie Gallo, CEO and co-founder. “When we launched RentWiki four years ago, our Industry wasn’t quite ready to embrace user-generated content and reviews. Since then a lot has changed. Every Apartment Industry event now has sessions, seminars and panels on how to handle ratings and reviews. Fortunately we have a four-year head start on any other company in this space.”

 

In short, RentAdvisor works directly with property management companies and properties to establish a baseline online ratings and reviews score. Then – through various and proprietary means perfected in the past 18 months – solicits a much more balanced rating and review set among renters. Finally, these more positive and balanced ratings/reviews are pushed to popular, well-trafficked sites, dramatically improving a property’s online reputation.

 

So why the name change to RentAdvisor? “We have often been equated to the travel site TripAdvisor due to the similarity of the user-generated content appearing on RentWiki,” said Gallo. “As fun as the name ‘RentWiki’ is to say, RentAdvisor is more akin to what we are actually doing.  We advise renters – and help other renters advise renters – on apartment communities and neighborhoods best suited to their needs.”

 

Finally, based on the intriguing new direction of the company, RentAdvisor was able to raise several million dollars in institutional and strategic investor capital at the beginning of this year to ensure viability of the company’s products and services long-term.

 

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Edited by Steve McCutchen and 8 others

Winter can get pretty cold. While we put on a cheerful face by playing hockey and having snowball fights, at the end of the day, we’re all dependent on our furnaces and heating systems to get us through those dark, cold months.

However, winter is only as cold as you want it to be – with a few easy-to-implement winter apartment heating tips, you’ll be able to keep warm and toasty when the temperature drops below the freezing mark.

Keep reading here: http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Your-Apartment-Warm

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How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline NOW

Charlie Whiteby 

 

You’ve been hearing about all the wonderful new Facebook features, and like us, you’re probably super-eager to get started with them.

If you’re willing to go through a series of eight steps, you can get into the brand-new Facebook Timeline right now.

Simply follow the instructions in our gallery below, and suddenly you’ll be basking in a new world of Facebook goodness, just like the developers are. Follow the instructions carefully, and good luck.

Continue reading: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/how-to-facebook-timeline/

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Great Halloween advice for confused apartment dwellers (like me)…

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Enjoy Trick-or-Treating When You Live in an Apartment

Make the Most of This Fun Halloween Tradition

By Ron Leshnower, About.com Guide


Do you think that trick-or-treating is just for kids who live in houses? The truth is, this Halloween tradition can be fun for apartment dwellers, too. Your neighbors are close by, you never have to brave the cold, and your children can flaunt their cute or creative costumes without having to cover them with jackets and scarves.

If you have children who will be going trick-or-treating in your apartment building this Halloween, play it safe by doing the following…

 

Read more at:  http://apartments.about.com/od/roommatesneighbors/a/trickortreating.htm

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How to Keep Halloween Trick-or-Treaters Away

What to Do When You Don’t Want the Interruption

By Ron Leshnower, About.com Guide

Maybe you’re the type who doesn’t like Halloween, or you just didn’t get around to buying treats this year. Perhaps it’s that you feel you’re entitled to relax and enjoy a book or your favorite TV show without interruption, regardless of whether the calendar says it’s October 31.

If you live in a building where children celebrate the holiday by going from apartment to apartment in search of Halloween treats, you certainly don’t have to participate. But you probably don’t want your neighbors to think you’re a hobgoblin, either. If neighbors get the impression that you’re being rude and interfering with their holiday fun, it can cast a gloomy spell on your relationship.

Here are some tips to help you opt out of the revelry with grace….

 

Read more at:  http://apartments.about.com/od/apartmentliving/a/How-To-Keep-Halloween-Trick-Or-Treaters-Away.htm

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Moving is expensive enough. Why should you pay for boxes to pack your stuff in?

For the past few weeks, I’ve been collecting boxes from friends and co-workers. They know I’m moving, so whenever someone gets a package, they drop off a box or two at my desk.

I’m lucky, apparently. I have no shortage of boxes now. Packing tape, on the other hand, always seems to disappear or run out when I need it.

Here’s a roundup of good places to find free moving boxes, drawn from my own experience and tips from readers…

Via http://blog.timesunion.com/simplerliving/where-to-find-free-moving-boxes/5377/

 

 

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Do you live in a “happy” state? And just what would that mean, anyway?

To find out, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index conducted a survey of a random sample of 352,840 adults over 2010.

The Index looked at six categories of well-being, including life evaluation (self-evaluation about your present life situation and anticipated one in five years), emotional health, work environment (such as job satisfaction), physical health, healthy behavior, and basic access (access to health care, a doctor, a safe place to exercise and walk, as well as community satisfaction), according to a report yesterday from LiveScience.

The happiest state?

Via How Happy Is Your State?.

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via cbsatlanta.com

Woo hoo… not fit for habitation… even in best of times.

Posted via email from Kate PARTAKES

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11 FEBRUARY 2011

By Dean… a girl with a boy’s name.

…even though my little apartment is evoking a soothing, white-washed, minimal, desert-y vibe…I can’t help be be super attracted to strong, dark, masculine spaces like these:

all by Roman & Williams, via my new favorite blog, Miss Moss… more via my little apartment: lets hear it for the boys.
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