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.

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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.

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

Showing Scheduler Walkthrough

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

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Showing Scheduler Walkthrough

What Millennials Look for in Rental Properties

Published by Guest Contributor in on Monday, January 7th, 2019

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What Millennials Look for in Rental Properties

With more than 80 million members in the United States, the millennial generation is easily one of the largest portions of the rental market. And according to some studies, many millennials plan to continue renting late into life.

The rental market can be competitive for both tenants and landlords. But the good news is that millennials tend to look for just a few key things in a potential rental. Check out this list of necessities to help make your property more desirable.

Location

As the old saying goes, the top 3 most important factors that attract potential tenants and buyers
are:

  • Location
  • Location
  • Location

For many millennials, the allure of nearby bars, restaurants, shopping, and other entertainment options can be worth a higher cost. This is the result of the increasing popularity of the desire to sacrifice in order to increase overall quality of life.

Of course, as a generation that prides itself on loving the environment, proximity to parks, trails, and other public open spaces are another drawing factor for millennials. Living in an area lush with greenery or natural habitat can coax even the most adamant city dwellers to their pioneer roots.

Commute

As wages remain stagnant and living costs continue to skyrocket, many millennials look for ways to save on their living costs. This could means a heavier focus on lowering commuting costs.

Similar to their desire for a more cultural location, many tenants look for rental properties close to public transportation. They may also look for properties close to major business centers to cut back on commuting by car.

Amenities

Another key factor that millennials search for in a rental property are included amenities. In an age of convenience, little perks can be a make-or-break for those choosing between two seemingly identical properties.

Some of the top amenities tenants look for in rental properties include:

  • Free Wifi
  • On-site or in-unit laundry
  • Security
  • Access to compost and recycling
  • Covered parking for large cars
  • Storage unit

Millennials like things to be easy and streamlined. The more landlords can include in rental properties, the more likely tenants will find the property appealing.

Pets Allowed

It’s nearly impossible to find affordable, pet-friendly rental units in large cities. Nearly 73% of all millennials own a pet and struggle to find housing. And with an increasing attitude of “I work hard so my pet can have a better life,” more and more millennials are forced to buy homes to accommodate pets.

For tenants interested in capturing this portion of the rental market, consider setting up a half-refundable pet deposit for families with furry members. Also consider allowing a wider array of pet types – many rental properties do not allow certain animal breeds, such as terriers and chows, which forces pet owner to find much more expensive home options.

If you are looking to fill your rental property, be sure to check out NowRenting. This rental management software takes the pain out of finding, screening, signing, and managing tenants with a streamlined, affordable process. Sign up for a 7-day trial today.

Create a Property

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Tuesday, December 18th, 2018

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Create a Property

A Property is a way for you to keep track of expenses and earnings for a real estate property that may involve multiple Leases, such as a duplex or apartment building. A Property is different from a Lease or a Listing: A Lease is about the relationship between you and a tenant. A Listing is about advertising a vacancy to potential tenants. A Property, however, is about expenses and earnings for a group of Leases.

First, hover your mouse over the Leases link in the top navigation bar, then click on Add Property.

NowRenting Add Property Navigate

In the window that comes up, enter the address of the Property. Then use the drop-down menu to select the Leases that belong to this Property. When you’re done, click Add Property. (If you don’t have any Leases, learn how to create them here.)

NowRenting Add Property Window

Manage Your Properties

You can view and manage your Properties by clicking the Leases link in the top navigation bar, then clicking the See Property Performance link.

NowRenting Property Performance Navigate

The Property Performance Summary section shows a graphical summary of the financial performance of all the Properties you have set up. A table of individual Properties can be found under the Properties heading. If you need to add or remove a Lease from a Property, click the Edit link. The window that comes up will also allow you to delete the Property.

NowRenting Property Performance Summary

Once you have created a Property, you can configure NowRenting to sync expense data from your bank account with it. Read about how to connect with Plaid here, then how to sync your expenses 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.

Quick Action Menu & Mobile Enhancements

Released on October 5th, 2018

This week’s updates include a new quick action menu, additional financial options when ending a lease and big changes for users of the mobile site.

Quick Action Menu

We’ve added a new button to NowRenting’s top navigation bar. It pops up a list of links to NowRenting’s most commonly-used functionality, giving you speedy access to the features you use most, from anywhere in the application.

NowRenting Quick Actions

See here for the complete list.

Add Charges when Ending a Lease

When ending a Lease, you can now add any charges, such as fees for damages or cleaning, that may need to be paid by the tenant. Any security deposit will be applied to these charges, as well as to outstanding rent or any other unpaid charges.

NowRenting End Lease Damage Fee

For more details on this feature, see here.

Mobile Enhancements

NowRenting’s visual layout has received a big update behind the scenes. Changes will be most noticeable to users who access nowrenting.com via a mobile device: Instead of a completely different (and limited) layout, you’ll be getting the same exact site as desktop users, specially upgraded to fit on your phone.

Streamline Tenant Management Today with NowRenting

Simplify tenant management with our cloud-based software.

No Hassle · No Obligation · No Surprises

Quick Action Menu & Mobile Enhancements

Released on October 5th, 2018

This week’s updates include a new quick action menu, additional financial options when ending a lease and big changes for users of the mobile site.

Quick Action Menu

We’ve added a new button to NowRenting’s top navigation bar. It pops up a list of links to NowRenting’s most commonly-used functionality, giving you speedy access to the features you use most, from anywhere in the application.

NowRenting Quick Actions

See here for the complete list.

Add Charges when Ending a Lease

When ending a Lease, you can now add any charges, such as fees for damages or cleaning, that may need to be paid by the tenant. Any security deposit will be applied to these charges, as well as to outstanding rent or any other unpaid charges.

NowRenting End Lease Damage Fee

For more details on this feature, see here.

Mobile Enhancements

NowRenting’s visual layout has received a big update behind the scenes. Changes will be most noticeable to users who access nowrenting.com via a mobile device: Instead of a completely different (and limited) layout, you’ll be getting the same exact site as desktop users, specially upgraded to fit on your phone.

How to End a Lease

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018

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How to End a Lease

From the Leases page, find the Lease you want to end and click its Details link. Then click the End this Lease link at the top of the page.
NowRenting End Lease Navigate

If there are outstanding charges (such as the unpaid August and September rent shown below) the security deposit will go towards paying them. The ending balance is calculated, and it will show how much of the security deposit should be returned to the tenant, or whether the tenant still has outstanding charges.

NowRenting End Lease Security Deposit Covers Owed Rent

To schedule the Lease to end on a particular date, select the End on a specific date option, then select a date from the calendar.

If necessary, you can add any last charges here, such as fees for damages or cleaning, and they will be subtracted from the security deposit.
NowRenting End Lease Damage Fee

The amount of the security deposit returned, as well as any charges, will be listed on the Lease’s Balance History page,
NowRenting End Lease Security Deposit Return History

Real Estate Marketing Trends

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

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Real Estate Marketing Trends

Which real estate marketing trends would it be advisable for you to watch out for in the year ahead? What would it be a good idea for you to the spending plan for and wanting to execute?

While there are apparently incalculable strategies and apparatuses to browse, a couple of emerging as the ones to take after. Each of these is important to organizations of all sizes and can fundamentally enhance the viability of marketing endeavors throughout the following a year.

All in all, what are these critical methodologies? Here, in no specific request, are the eight real estate marketing trends we trust each firm should observe nearly in 2018:

1. Expense Bill — Related Content and Advice

It’s difficult to exaggerate the effect that the U.S. impose charge go toward the finish of 2017 could have on the real estate industry in 2018.

As indicated by a current review from Realtor.com, 87% of individuals who intend to purchase a home and 43% of individuals who plan to offer a home this year say the duty changes will impact their approach.

Customers are ravenous for data about what the bill is, the manner by which it will affect the market, and whether it ought to adjust their decisions. Real estate firms are splendidly situated to advance in and help fill this request by providing master counsel and substance.

2. Virtual and Augmented Experiences

One of the difficulties with real estate marketing is that purchasers, as a rule, need to see the item—the building, home, space, flat, and so on.— Face to face before profoundly captivating.

Fortunately, a large group of innovations are making it significantly simpler for individuals to “see” real estate carefully. A few cases incorporate Matterport, a device that makes prosperous virtual/visual voyages through properties, and Pandora Reality, an enlarged reality encounter supplier that presents what development tasks will look like when finished.

These are only a glimpse of a more significant problem. Substantial innovation firms, for example, Apple and Google discharged toolbox a year ago which made making virtual and expanded offerings substantially less demanding. That should make these encounters significantly more reasonable and available to real estate firms in 2018.

3. Included Listing Advertising

After some time, computerized stages, for example, Google and Facebook have developed into pay-to-play channels for organizations. As anyone might expect, real estate-particular channels are presently following this model.

As shoppers have progressively swung to locales, for example, Zillow and Trulia to discover properties, those organizations have pushed gradually toward charging to be displayed unmistakably. This move isn’t an awful thing. The push toward paid arrangements constrained Facebook and Google to create new apparatuses to help sponsors, and it’s doing likewise for real estate stages. In 2018, putting resources into highlighted posting advertisements will probably give advertisers access to new units and focusing on alternatives that were never accessible before.

4. Marketing Automation Platforms

If exclusive you had additional time you’d be doing considerably more with your marketing program. You’d likely be drawing in more individuals, growing more substance, and accomplishing more personalization, correct?

All things considered, while it’s difficult to make additional time, it is conceivable substantially more efficient with the time you have. That is the reason marketing computerization programming stages are so significant for real estate firms.

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With the correct frameworks and setup, it’s presently conceivable to robotize numerous marketing assignments, including following leads, running email trickle battles, and conveying focused on pieces at the perfect time. Furthermore, the uplifting news for advertisers is that these instruments are set to wind up plainly considerably more intense and more reasonable in 2018.

5. Propelled Social Ad Campaigns

It’s not news to most real estate advertisers that web-based social networking is a successful publicizing channel. Be that as it may, numerous organizations still don’t completely see how amazingly intense these stages have progressed toward becoming.

A large group of crisp offerings from the real systems—including new/enhanced retargeting, geofencing, and unit alternatives—have made it conceivable to contact gatherings of people more correctly and more proficiently than any time in recent memory.

The way to exploiting this is to create propelled social crusades which make utilization of the full scope of devices and organizations. Firms that progression up their amusement in 2018 and put resources into refined social methodologies are probably going to see a noteworthy ROI on their spend.

6. Hyperlocal Content Creation

The expanding capacity of social and inquiry stages to precisely target purchasers given correct area opens up a useful open door for real estate firms: hyperlocal content.

Content that is gone for individuals who are in, or intrigued by, particular areas, for example, neighborhood guides, nearby market reports, and so on.— Is very viable because the restricted concentration serves an imperative need.

What’s essential to recall with hyperlocal content is that it includes two sections: building up the correct pieces and conveying them to the opportune individuals. Real estate firms that ace both creations and focus on will have a capable apparatus in 2018 to achieve lucrative crowds.

Happy President’s Day from NowRenting

Published by Matthew Talamini in on Monday, February 19th, 2018

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Happy President’s Day from NowRenting

It turns out George Washington’s and NowRenting’s Revolutions aren’t all that different. Hear me out…

So how is it possible to compare the Granddaddy of all of the Founding Fathers of our country to the Founding Father of NowRenting Ed Giardina? How could one make that kind of comparison? Metaphorically of course and just for fun on this Presidents Day. Let’s have a look.

Washington was fighting against the evil tyranny of a cruel and evil dictator.

Giardina is fighting the cumbersome big box property management software companies.

Washington’s quest for freedom started in Northern Virginia while he was protecting his land and Mount Vernon and it’s occupants.

Giardina’s quest for the perfect digital assistant began when he was searching for a solution to manage his properties and their occupants better.

Washington’s right-hand man, Alexander Hamilton was a bright young man from New York who kept Washington’s journal and helped shape our young country.

Giardina’s right-hand man is a bright young man from New York who writes the NowRenting blog and is helping shape the sales process for NowRenting.

Washington recruited Hercules Mulligan and Anna Smith Strong to spy on the British Government to help win the war.

Giardina recruited Sandro Silva and Hannah Guild to research and investigate the competition to build a one of a kind product and win the market.

Washington had brilliant war engineers Marquis de LaFayette, George Clinton and John Glover who helped build the best strategy and battlefield plans.

Giardina has three brilliant engineers building the best software in David Loehr, Patrick Giddings, and Matthew Talamini. Together they are creating the roadmap to solve the problems in property management.

Now, I have a million of these, but the point is this. Sometimes it takes a revolution to bring on change. NowRenting is starting the Rental Revolution, and when we succeed, Rental property will be as easy to work with the easiest purchase.

Follow the revolution on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Happy Birthday, President Washington, we indeed wouldn’t be able to lead our charge without you.

Kyle Anderson, Head of Sales @ NowRenting