Message Settings

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Monday, April 15th, 2019

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Message Settings

To access NowRenting’s message settings page, navigate to Settings > Message Settings.

NowRenting: Message Settings - Navigate

Managing Allowed Replies

By default, NowRenting only accepts replies to your emails that come from the email address you sent the message to. If you need to allow other specific email addresses to reply to your NowRenting emails, click the Edit link next to Allow Replies From, and add them to the Additional Allowed Email Addresses fields. Addresses entered here will not be blocked.

Certain tools generate a new email address for every conversation thread. If this is the case for you, it won’t be feasible to whitelist all of them. You can turn off NowRenting’s reply whitelist by selecting Allow replies from any email address.

Other Options on this Page

For more information about NowRenting’s call forwarding options, which are also accessible from this page, see this article.

For information about changing your NowRenting phone number, see this article.

New Syndication Partners

Released on March 22nd, 2019

NowRenting is already an amazingly effective tool for acquiring high-quality leads for your properties. But we’re always working to make it more effective.

That includes recent efforts to expand our syndication network—which have begun to pay off! We now include 5 new sites among our syndication partners:

That means that, in addition to our current syndication partners, NowRenting will send your Listings to these new sites as well. Be sure to turn on syndication to take advantage of the additional Leads that exposure is sure to generate.

Our efforts to add new syndication partners are ongoing. We expect to add even more in upcoming weeks.

If you haven’t signed up for NowRenting yet, now is a great time! Our new signup promotion is giving deep discounts for signing up, but only for a limited time. Expand the reach of your property Listings by signing up for NowRenting today!

NowRenting's Syndication Partners

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New Syndication Partners

Released on March 22nd, 2019

NowRenting is already an amazingly effective tool for acquiring high-quality leads for your properties. But we’re always working to make it more effective.

That includes recent efforts to expand our syndication network—which have begun to pay off! We now include 5 new sites among our syndication partners:

That means that, in addition to our current syndication partners, NowRenting will send your Listings to these new sites as well. Be sure to turn on syndication to take advantage of the additional Leads that exposure is sure to generate.

Our efforts to add new syndication partners are ongoing. We expect to add even more in upcoming weeks.

If you haven’t signed up for NowRenting yet, now is a great time! Our new signup promotion is giving deep discounts for signing up, but only for a limited time. Expand the reach of your property Listings by signing up for NowRenting today!

NowRenting's Syndication Partners

Call Forwarding

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Monday, March 4th, 2019

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Call Forwarding

There are a number of options for responding to telephone calls at your NowRenting phone number. Navigate to Settings > Message Settings.

NowRenting: Call Forwarding

Text messages will usually be routed to your NowRenting Messages Dashboard, but if you’d like to forward them to a cell phone, you can do so by checking the Forward SMS messages to a cell phone box and entering the cell number in the input that will appear.

Available options for voice calls are listed under the Phone calls & voicemail section:

  • Forward Calls: This option lets you forward calls made to your NowRenting number to a cell or desk phone. Specify the number in the input box provided.
  • Voicemail: Send calls made to your NowRenting number directly to voicemail.
  • IVR: Use NowRenting’s IVR system to handle the call. Read more about IVR here.

To learn about how to change your NowRenting phone number, which is also available on this page, read the article here.

Listings Widget

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019

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Listings Widget

The listings widget allows you to display your Listings on your own website. Navigate to Settings > Public Website > Widgets.

NowRenting: Listings Widget

Clicking the theme and palette preferences link will take you to the Colors & Content tab, where you can choose between four professionally-designed themes and six palettes. As well as determining the style of your public site, these settings also control the style of the Listings shown by the widget.

Click the See a preview link to open a new browser tab that shows the listings widget as it will appear on your site. The widget allows visitors to sort by location or price, and to use NowRenting’s powerful filtering tool to find just what they’re looking for. Each Listing also has a Schedule a Showing link, which lets a visitor request a showing appointment.

Installation

To install the listings widget, all you have to do is copy the code into your site’s HTML. Each hosting service or web platform will have their own way of facilitating this. If you’re not sure what to do, talk to your webmaster.

Export Leads

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Thursday, December 20th, 2018

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Export Leads

NowRenting uses the industry-standard Real Estate Lead Metadata format to export Leads for use in other tools.

Navigate to the Leads dashboard by clicking the Leads link in the top navigation bar, then click the Export leads… link.

NowRenting -- Export Leads -- Link

Enter the email address provided by the other tool you want to export your Leads to. New text input fields will appear to accommodate as many email addresses as you need. Click the checkbox if you want to send all of your current leads to the addresses immediately. Then click Done.

NowRenting -- Export Leads -- Window

The Show replies in NowRenting checkbox controls whether NowRenting will continue to manage communication with the exported leads or not.

  • If you leave the box checked, the leads will be exported with a special email address that will route future communication through NowRenting. When NowRenting receives an email at that address, it will pass it on to the lead and show it in the Messages dashboard.
  • If you uncheck the box, the exported lead data will include the actual email address of the lead. NowRenting may not be able to keep track of future communication with this lead.

Every time you get a new Lead, NowRenting will send an email to the addresses specified. These emails are formatted to be read by people as well as online real estate tools.

NowRenting -- Export Leads -- Email

The code of the email will contain special tags designed to be read by online real estate software.

NowRenting -- Export Leads -- Meta Tags

Follow Up Boss

Follow Up Boss assigns each user a unique email address. (Agents can find this under Admin > API > Lead Email Address.) This is the address you should enter into NowRenting’s Export Leads window.

For more details, see the Follow Up Boss documentation here.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Released on November 21st, 2018

This week’s video update:

Happy Thanksgiving!

We just wanted to stop and take a moment, going into this holiday season, to say how thankful we really are.

We’re thankful first to all of our users, for being part of this vibrant community and giving us the chance to help you with your business.

We truly are honored.

And finally, to the whole community of rental professionals worldwide: we’re always inspired by your passion.

All of us here at NowRenting wish you a very happy Thanksgiving, and we look forward to speaking with you after the holidays.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Released on November 21st, 2018

This week’s video update:

Happy Thanksgiving!

We just wanted to stop and take a moment, going into this holiday season, to say how thankful we really are.

We’re thankful first to all of our users, for being part of this vibrant community and giving us the chance to help you with your business.

We truly are honored.

And finally, to the whole community of rental professionals worldwide: we’re always inspired by your passion.

All of us here at NowRenting wish you a very happy Thanksgiving, and we look forward to speaking with you after the holidays.

Benefits of Screening Tenant Leads

Published by Ellen in on Thursday, September 27th, 2018

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Benefits of Screening Tenant Leads

What happens when you have a potential tenant but they don’t want to be screened? In many cases, the tenants that don’t want to fill out background information or have you run a tenant background check have something to hide. Not knowing who is moving into your rental property can leave you and your assets at risk. That’s why it’s so important to consistently screen all potential tenants. Here are the top three benefits of screening tenant leads.

Protect Your Assets

Your rental property makes you money. The better you take care of your property, the more it will appreciate over time. While you can do everything in your power as a landlord to keep your property nice, the bottom line is you aren’t the one living in the space full time. Screening tenant leads can ensure that you have someone that will respect your property and keep it looking nice. Having a quality tenant can make all of the difference when it comes to how much your property will be worth in the future and if future tenants will want to live there.

Increase Your Income

Along with securing your cash flow in the future, screening your tenant leads can help your income now. A high tenant turnover rate can do more damage to your finances and your property than good. Screening your leads and ensuring that you have a quality tenant can help save you money on property damage and possibly eviction cost. Also, having a great tenant means a consistent cash flow of rent.

Long Lasting Tenants

Finding a long lasting tenant is a gold mine for a rental property owner. A long lasting tenant means a consistent cash flow, less property damage, and less stress of having to find future tenants. It also just makes everything easier to have a long lasting tenant because of the trust that is built there. Screening tenant leads can help you find the quality tenants that last.

When it comes to tenants, it’s important to know who you are renting to. Screening tenant leads benefits you by protecting your assets, increasing your income, and finding you a long lasting tenant. At NowRenting, we know how important it is to screen your tenant leads. We provide efficient online tenant screening and give you high-quality leads directly to your inbox. We want to make sure that you have the best tenants possible. To learn more about how Now Renting can benefit you, contact us today at 844-446-RENT.

A Wide Range of Feature Additions

Released on September 21st, 2018

This week’s feature additions cover a range of new functionality; from increasing Business users’ organizational capacity to widening the reach of our Listings, there’s sure to be something new for everyone!

Facebook Integration

Our Facebook integration feature is finally approved! This new syndication option adds the considerable social reach of Facebook to NowRenting’s already broad array of platforms.

As well as being able to automatically post your listings to NowRenting’s Facebook page, you can also post to them your personal Facebook page, so that your own network of friends and acquaintances will be able to view, like and share your listings. Comments on these posts will be smoothly funneled into the NowRenting messaging system.

For details on how to use this feature, see here.

Group Showings

Our showing scheduler just got more powerful! In addition to flexibly managing appointments with individual Leads, you can now include multiple Leads in a single showing invitation. Select them on the Leads page, click the Showings button and enter the details of your showing’s time and place. It’s as easy as that!

For more details on group showings, see here; instructions for scheduling individual showings can be found here.

Lead Assignment Roster

NowRenting’s new Lead Assignment Roster, available now to Business users, builds increased power and functionality onto our user management and Lead assignment features. No more clicking each new Lead to assign them to a team member; NowRenting can take care of it automatically.

Once you have your team set up with user accounts in NowRenting, incoming Leads can be automatically assigned to them in the order you specify. Just add them to the roster, click and drag to set the order, and choose how many Leads per round each should get. After that, Lead assignment will take care of itself–just another way NowRenting works to cut the busywork out of your day.

Read more about this feature here.

Other Improvements

In addition to the major feature additions mentioned above, this week we’ve added some smaller—but no less useful—capabilities as well:

On the Leads page, you can now delete multiple Leads at once. Great for managing the response to your most popular Listings!

The Listing details page now includes convenient social share buttons, so you can post your Listings to social networks with ease.

It is now possible to add a one-time charge to a Lease. If a charge doesn’t come under the heading of late fee, security deposit, or any other category we already account for, you can resolve it here without going outside of NowRenting’s system.

Streamline Tenant Management Today with NowRenting

Simplify tenant management with our cloud-based software.

No Hassle · No Obligation · No Surprises

A Wide Range of Feature Additions

Released on September 21st, 2018

This week’s feature additions cover a range of new functionality; from increasing Business users’ organizational capacity to widening the reach of our Listings, there’s sure to be something new for everyone!

Facebook Integration

Our Facebook integration feature is finally approved! This new syndication option adds the considerable social reach of Facebook to NowRenting’s already broad array of platforms.

As well as being able to automatically post your listings to NowRenting’s Facebook page, you can also post to them your personal Facebook page, so that your own network of friends and acquaintances will be able to view, like and share your listings. Comments on these posts will be smoothly funneled into the NowRenting messaging system.

For details on how to use this feature, see here.

Group Showings

Our showing scheduler just got more powerful! In addition to flexibly managing appointments with individual Leads, you can now include multiple Leads in a single showing invitation. Select them on the Leads page, click the Showings button and enter the details of your showing’s time and place. It’s as easy as that!

For more details on group showings, see here; instructions for scheduling individual showings can be found here.

Lead Assignment Roster

NowRenting’s new Lead Assignment Roster, available now to Business users, builds increased power and functionality onto our user management and Lead assignment features. No more clicking each new Lead to assign them to a team member; NowRenting can take care of it automatically.

Once you have your team set up with user accounts in NowRenting, incoming Leads can be automatically assigned to them in the order you specify. Just add them to the roster, click and drag to set the order, and choose how many Leads per round each should get. After that, Lead assignment will take care of itself–just another way NowRenting works to cut the busywork out of your day.

Read more about this feature here.

Other Improvements

In addition to the major feature additions mentioned above, this week we’ve added some smaller—but no less useful—capabilities as well:

On the Leads page, you can now delete multiple Leads at once. Great for managing the response to your most popular Listings!

The Listing details page now includes convenient social share buttons, so you can post your Listings to social networks with ease.

It is now possible to add a one-time charge to a Lease. If a charge doesn’t come under the heading of late fee, security deposit, or any other category we already account for, you can resolve it here without going outside of NowRenting’s system.

The 3 “L’s” of Real Estate

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Tuesday, December 19th, 2017

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The 3 “L’s” of Real Estate


The most frustrating aspects of real estate market can be broken down into three parts: Listings, Leases, and Leads. Or, as we at NowRenting like to call them, the three L’s of real estate! Here’s how we can help you out:

Leases

Our leases component is a major assistance tool for landlords and realtors. We can help you generate leases from a variety of templates. Our lease component turns applicants into tenants in no time due to our electronic signature feature. According to Rentalutions.com, electronic leases are signed almost 2x quicker than the traditional process. Our ACH feature feature also allows you to collect rent electronically for FREE (due to NowRenting’s partnership with Stripe!) making it convenient for tenants to pay their rent. Landlords can smoothly export all rent transactions to Quickbooks without missing a beat.

Leads

NowRenting eliminates the frustration of gaining leads. Tell us about your dream tenant and we will provide you with unlimited leads that match your criteria! Gone are the days of sifting through junk leads. Our listings feature syndicates with multiple other realtor sites, making your property visible to everyone searching for rentals. Simply filter through your leads in the leads dashboard and easily communicate directly in the application! Once you’ve gotten your pre-qualified leads you can easily turn them into applicants via our application portal!! Zillow states that finding leads is the hardest part of rental real estate. With our leads feature, finding leads is a breeze!

Listings

Anyone who has had to list properties knows that listing properties is time consuming and monotonous. Our listings feature allows you to list an unlimited number of properties with ease and convenience into our database. This component lets you connect listings to your profile and market your business. According to Forbes, realtors can increase sales by 31% by spending less time listing properties, and more time gaining business.

What more could rental professional need? NowRenting has all of the answers to your rental frustrations.