No Fee Listings and New Mobile App Styles

Released on April 5th, 2019

A New Look for the Mobile App

We’ve taken some time this week to spruce up the NowRenting mobile app. Check out these nice, clean new designs!

NowRenting Mobile App: Messages Page

NowRenting Mobile App: Listings Page

The mobile app is perfect for taking care of business on the go. Communicate with tenants, evaluate Leads, accept payments, review background checks, and more!

If you don’t already have the app, there’s never been a better time to download it:

Apple App Store
Google Play (for Android devices)

No Fee Listings

Every rental market is different. In some places, most rentals are advertised by the owner. In others, apartment-hunters expect to pay a fee to a professional leasing agent.

That’s why we now include the Application Fee/Commission field in our Listings. It tells your leads how much they can expect to pay beforehand. Choose from:

  • Not Specified: Select this option to leave the space blank.
  • No Fee Listing: Select this option if you do not charge applicants a fee.
  • Application Fee: Selecting this will open up a field where you can enter the fee you charge applicants.
  • Custom: This allows you to enter a custom message to be displayed.

NowRenting: New Listing Description

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No Fee Listings and New Mobile App Styles

Released on April 5th, 2019

A New Look for the Mobile App

We’ve taken some time this week to spruce up the NowRenting mobile app. Check out these nice, clean new designs!

NowRenting Mobile App: Messages Page

NowRenting Mobile App: Listings Page

The mobile app is perfect for taking care of business on the go. Communicate with tenants, evaluate Leads, accept payments, review background checks, and more!

If you don’t already have the app, there’s never been a better time to download it:

Apple App Store
Google Play (for Android devices)

No Fee Listings

Every rental market is different. In some places, most rentals are advertised by the owner. In others, apartment-hunters expect to pay a fee to a professional leasing agent.

That’s why we now include the Application Fee/Commission field in our Listings. It tells your leads how much they can expect to pay beforehand. Choose from:

  • Not Specified: Select this option to leave the space blank.
  • No Fee Listing: Select this option if you do not charge applicants a fee.
  • Application Fee: Selecting this will open up a field where you can enter the fee you charge applicants.
  • Custom: This allows you to enter a custom message to be displayed.

NowRenting: New Listing Description

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

Streamline Tenant Management Today with NowRenting

Simplify tenant management with our cloud-based software.

No Hassle · No Obligation · No Surprises

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

Public Website DNS Settings

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

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Public Website DNS Settings

NowRenting’s Public Website allows you to use a custom domain associated with your personal or company website. The instructions differ, depending on whether you’d like to use a subdomain (like listings.mysite.com) or the main domain (like mysite.com).

(We’ll use mysite.com as an example. Wherever you see that in these instructions, replace it with the actual address of your website.)

Navigate to Settings > Public Website > Public Website Settings. The custom domain settings can be found under the Advanced heading.

NowRenting: Public Website - Custom Domain

For a subdomain

First, enter the subdomain in NowRenting’s Custom Domain field. Like: listings.mysite.com

Then, you’ll need to edit the DNS settings for your website. If you’re unsure how to do this, contact your webmaster or refer to your web host’s documentation.

In your website’s DNS settings: Add a CNAME record for listings.mysite.com with the value: nowrenting.com.

For the whole domain

Enter the domain in NowRentings Custom Domain field. Like: mysite.com.

Then, you’ll need to edit the DNS settings for your website. If you’re unsure how to do this, contact your webmaster or refer to your web host’s documentation.

In your website’s DNS settings: Add an A record for mysite.com with the value: 34.193.75.110.

Recommended: If you’d like www.mysite.com to show your NowRenting website as well, create a CNAME record for www.mysite.com with the value: nowrenting.com.

External Links to DNS Documentation

HostGator Documentation

DreamHost Documentation

GoDaddy Documentation

Wix Documentation

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.

New Features and Performance Upgrades

Released on January 11th, 2019

It’s been a busy week for the NowRenting development team! The beginning of 2019 has brought new users, new opportunities for growth and even some exciting new challenges. In addition to upgrading NowRenting’s performance, we’ve added a number of new features to make your office run more efficiently.

Compact View of the Listings Dashboard

NowRenting Listings Compact View

The new Compact View of the Listings dashboard is for when you need to get things done quickly. It allows you to select multiple listings at once and then syndicate, unsyndicate or delete all of them. The smaller size of each Listing allows you to see more on your screen, and the powerful filtering features are still available.

To access the compact view, click the Switch to compact view link on the right of the Listings dashboard. The same link will allow you to switch back to the default expanded view.

Hide Address Checkbox

NowRenting Hide Address Checkbox

Sometimes you may want to advertise a listing on NowRenting’s broad array of syndication partner sites without publicly revealing the exact address. To enable this, we’ve added a Hide address checkbox to the screens where you add or edit a Listing. When the box is checked, you

Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes

Every software tool will have to make adjustments and upgrades as it grows—and NowRenting is no exception. Our development team worked hard this week to keep NowRenting functioning at a high level of performance. Although many of these upgrades aren’t directly apparent to users, rest assured that you’ll feel their impact in shortened loading times, increased system stability and reduced error messages.

Other New Features
Other feature improvements this week include:

  • Filtering on the Leads dashboard now includes Received Date as an option.
  • The Listing import feature now supports importing listings from your AppFolio listing directory.
  • Exported payments in the Quickbooks Sync dashboard can now be marked as Needs Attention.

Streamline Tenant Management Today with NowRenting

Simplify tenant management with our cloud-based software.

No Hassle · No Obligation · No Surprises

New Features and Performance Upgrades

Released on January 11th, 2019

It’s been a busy week for the NowRenting development team! The beginning of 2019 has brought new users, new opportunities for growth and even some exciting new challenges. In addition to upgrading NowRenting’s performance, we’ve added a number of new features to make your office run more efficiently.

Compact View of the Listings Dashboard

NowRenting Listings Compact View

The new Compact View of the Listings dashboard is for when you need to get things done quickly. It allows you to select multiple listings at once and then syndicate, unsyndicate or delete all of them. The smaller size of each Listing allows you to see more on your screen, and the powerful filtering features are still available.

To access the compact view, click the Switch to compact view link on the right of the Listings dashboard. The same link will allow you to switch back to the default expanded view.

Hide Address Checkbox

NowRenting Hide Address Checkbox

Sometimes you may want to advertise a listing on NowRenting’s broad array of syndication partner sites without publicly revealing the exact address. To enable this, we’ve added a Hide address checkbox to the screens where you add or edit a Listing. When the box is checked, you

Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes

Every software tool will have to make adjustments and upgrades as it grows—and NowRenting is no exception. Our development team worked hard this week to keep NowRenting functioning at a high level of performance. Although many of these upgrades aren’t directly apparent to users, rest assured that you’ll feel their impact in shortened loading times, increased system stability and reduced error messages.

Other New Features
Other feature improvements this week include:

  • Filtering on the Leads dashboard now includes Received Date as an option.
  • The Listing import feature now supports importing listings from your AppFolio listing directory.
  • Exported payments in the Quickbooks Sync dashboard can now be marked as Needs Attention.

Import Listings

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

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Import Listings

NowRenting allows you to import Listings from other online real estate tools.

Currently supported formats include:

Navigate to the Listings dashboard using the link in the top navigation bar, then click the Import listings… link.

NowRenting -- Import Listings -- Navigate

  • Enter the URL provided by the other tool into the Feed URL text field. (If you’re using AppFolio, enter the URL of your listings directory, like: https://your-company-name.appfolio.com/listings/.)
  • While the Enable Importing checkbox is turned on, NowRenting will periodically check the feed and import any new or updated listings.
  • Click the Import Now link to trigger a one-time check for new or updated listings.
  • If you select the Automatically syndicate imported listings option, NowRenting will attempt to syndicate imported listings automatically. (Note: This option will override the syndication status of listings already imported. So if you’ve stopped syndication for a listing, you should remove it from your feed as well, if this option is checked.)
  • If you select the I’ll manage syndication manually option, then imported listings will be unlisted by default.
  • If you select the My listings are already being syndicated elsewhere option, NowRenting will not syndicate Listings from your feed. NowRenting will show those Listings as listed at first, and then unlisted when they are no longer in the feed. (However, these Listings will be syndicated to Facebook when they first come in.)

NowRenting: Import Listings Window

Changes you make to a listing in NowRenting will not be overwritten by the Import Listings feature, with one exception: If the listing is changed in the feed, NowRenting will update itself with those changes.

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.