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New Directory for Orlando Property Management Companies

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:30:15 -0500

New property manager directory offering Orlando Property Management Companies another easy and affordable way to generate property management leads everyday with a featured manager listing in our Orlando Property Manager Directory.

We distribute your vacant rental to over 30 large vertical websites including craigslist, hotpads, tbo.com, google, myspace, vast, oodle plus many more!

We give our customers more! More options, unbeatable pricing and great results, and the best customer service in the industry!

We offer cost effective listings plans for landlords and property managers, no contracts to sign, no set up fees. Once you compare OrlandoRentalAds.com to other on-line advertising options. You'll see that it is the most cost effective advertising available for your vacant rentals.

We are fully integrated with homerentals.net customers (we publish your data feeds automatically, eliminating manually posting listings) Full MLS intergration as well.
Banner advertising available to drive more renters and property management leads to your inbox.
Free website listing intergration for your company website.
Competitive listing packages for property managers starting at $149.95 per month.
Free company logo & link to your company website in every listing at no "extra" charge.
Free company listing in our popular property manager directory.

For more information please visit our website at OrlandoRentalAds.com or call our South Florida sales manager at 1-888-892-2911

Fannie Mae to Let Renters Remain in Foreclosures

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:03:49 -0600

Fannie Mae has agreed to let renters stay in their homes even if the owners of the properties have been foreclosed on, according to an announcement from the company yesterday. About 4,000 renters live in properties foreclosed on by Fannie Mae.

The move comes after the mortgage-finance giant came under pressure from a Connecticut legal aid group to end efforts to evict tenants who are able to pay their monthly bills but whose landlords have lost their buildings to foreclosure.

It represents another step the company is taking to keep people in their homes. Last month District-based Fannie Mae and McLean-based Freddie Mac announced that they would suspend foreclosures and evictions during the holiday season and introduced a program to modify mortgages of owners facing foreclosure. Freddie Mac hasn't announced a policy regarding renters.

New Haven Legal Assistance Association had threatened Fannie with a lawsuit if it did not amend its practices. Fannie said it would place a moratorium on evictions until Jan. 9 and then issue a policy to reach out to tenants in foreclosed properties, either signing new leases with them or helping them relocate. The details of that policy haven't been worked out.

"No renter should feel any apprehension of losing their home," Curtis Lu, principal deputy general counsel of Fannie, wrote in a letter to the New Haven Legal Assistance Association yesterday.

"We had seen bona fide renters who were current on their rent being forced to leave their homes," New Haven Legal Assistance attorney Amy Marx said in a statement. "We are delighted that Fannie Mae took our concerns seriously."

Marx and Lu's letters were copied to Fannie's regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as well as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.).

Fannie owns only a small fraction of foreclosed properties in which tenants now risk evictions. It wasn't clear whether others would take similar steps.

"It is our hope that this new policy by Fannie Mae will serve as a model to private lenders and state legislators considering actions to assist renters who are being immensely burdened by the foreclosure crisis," said Shelley White, director of litigation at New Haven Legal Assistance.

RESPECT - Find Out What it Means to Me

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:48:03 -0600

A good article from Janine Popick,
President and CEO - Founder of Vertical Response Marketing that landed in my inbox this morning.

Well, it's the end of the year and you're not only sending a ton of email but you're getting it too, right? Retailers are going nuts trying to get as much as they can out of the short season. I'm seeing an email every 30 seconds pop into my inbox and I'm sure many of you have it just the same. Bloomie's and Nieman Marcus are up to 2-3 mailings a DAY right now, but they mail every day anyway, so that's not completely out of the ordinary. On top of that, the businesses who market to businesses are feeling the end-of-year crunch so they're having fire sales for their goods and services too.

What really got me this year was the sheer number of retailers I've purchased from last year, that didn't send me one email until November. Now by inbox runneth over with emails from them.

Where's the Respect?

Bounce rates are likely to be higher due to the amount of people that had a change of email address. Think of the many people who've unfortunately lost their jobs this past year. If you're not giving them something of value and keeping in touch with them throughout the year, they probably won't give you their updated email addresses.

Response rates might be lower because it's been so long since recipients have been communicated to. In fact, like me, recipients might feel "used and abused" because businesses are only giving them great deals when THEY need them the most, not when recipients need the deals most. Remember, it's a two way street. You both are giving and taking.

On top of response rates being low unsubscribe rates could soar. If recipients are all of a sudden getting slammed by your emails when they've not heard from you, they're more likely to unsubscribe.

So here's to 2009, we all need to look at our marketing dollars under a microscope. The people that are going to get you through any tough times are your customers. So make sure you don't abuse them, and make sure you build a lasting relationship with them all year long.

The Simple Truths Of Service - Are you providing a good service to your customers?

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:52:55 -0600

This is an unforgettable true story about a young man with Down's Syndrome who changes the culture of a grocery store by being creative and giving the customers more than they expect. The service we provide our customers today will either make or break a business regardless of what kind business we operate. We all are facing adversity in the world we live in. Perhaps if we change the way we provide service our customers we will all weather this storm in todays market?

New Rental Listings Website For The Tampa Florida Rental Home Market

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:23:23 -0600

Tampa, Florida – TampaRentalAds.com - Tampa's newest rental listings Website, launched this October, is quickly gaining popularity with search engines and Property Managers in the Tampa, Florida Rental Market.

Owned and operated locally, TampaRentalAds.com features Tampa Home for rent and Apartment for rent in Tampa, FL St Pete and Clearwater areas including Wesley Chapel, Land O Lakes, Gulfport, Palm Harbour, Dade City, Belleair, Pinellas Park, Zephryhills, and Spring Hill.

TampaRentalAds allows you to create your own portfolio of properties in minutes. Allowing you to display not only photos and floor plans, video tours, but all pertinent information to prospective tenants about your availability, rates, location & community features. Once your properties are added, sit back and let our site do all the work.

We offer Tampa property management companies another easy and affordable way to generate property management leads everyday with a featured manager listing in our Tampa Property Manager Directory.

We distribute your vacant rental to over 30 large vertical websites including craigslist, hotpads, tbo.com, google, myspace, vast, oodle plus many more!

We started our first rental website in the Jacksonville, Florida market over five years ago.
Since then we have grown to be the largest and #1 rental website in the Jacksonville market With over 50 Property Managers using our service in the Jacksonville Rental market we received many requests to launch new websites in the Tampa and Orlando area.

We give our customers more! More options, unbeatable pricing and great results, and the best customer service in the industry!

Look for our newest office locations February 2008 in the Tampa and Orlando Markets to better serve you the property manager!

We offer cost effective listings plans for landlords and property managers, no contracts to sign, no set up fees. Once you compare TampaRentalAds to other on-line advertising options. You'll see that it is the most cost effective advertising available for your vacant rentals.

We are fully integrated with homerentals.net customers (we publish your data feeds automatically, eliminating manually posting listings)
Banner advertising available to drive more renters and property management leads to your inbox.
Free website listing intergration for your company website.
Competitive listing packages for property managers starting at $149.95 per month.
Free company logo & link to your company website in every listing at no "extra" charge.
Free company listing in our popular property manager directory.

For more information please visit our website at TampaRentalAds.com or call our South Florida sales manager at 1-888-892-2911

Stop Worrying About Rankings - Google Launches Searchwiki

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:00:08 -0600

From SEO.com Blog

Do you search Google for your trophy keyword every morning to see if you’re still on the first page? Do you check more than once a day? If so, you are a rankings junkie and it’s time to shake the habit. Things have changed with the search engines to the point where rankings are no longer the best indicator of SEO success. Honestly, rankings have never been the best indicator of success, but this is becoming more and more important for marketers to understand. You should be focusing on how much traffic is coming from search, which keywords are driving that traffic, and most importantly, which keywords are driving sales.

The most recent twist in the search universe was Google’s announcement this week of the launch of SearchWiki. SearchWiki gives registered Google users the opportunity to mess with the position of sites in the SERPs. Basically, it gives me as a searcher the opportunity to pick which site shows up in the top spot and get rid of all the crap that isn’t relevant for any given search. Sound incredible? Don’t get too excited, any changes I make will only be visible to me when I’m logged into my Google account. However, position adjustments and comments people make in SearchWiki can be viewed by other searchers if they click on the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link at the bottom of the page. If this catches on, and isn’t ruined by spammers, I expect SearchWiki to gradually gain more importance in what people see when they search. The first step will be to allow the option to let people’s search results be influenced by friends’ wiki changes, and then Google could start including aggregate wiki data as part of their search algorithm for the general public.

At the recent PubCon conference, representatives from all three major search engines spoke about how each is trying to offer more than “ten blue text links.” What they mean by this is that rather than the traditional 10 text links to web pages when you search, they are starting to serve up other types of content that is relevant to your search query. We’ve been hearing about this trend for the past couple years, and it has gradually become more prominent in the search results–known as Universal or Blended search. Any given search could yield results for images, video, shopping, blogs, local maps or news. Rather than just links to these other types of media, they are often embedded right in the search page. With this shift away from the standard “10 blue text links,” it changes the paradigm of search engine optimization. While optimizing web pages is still important, if you aren’t creating and optimizing a wide array of digital assets, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to get your brand in front of searchers.

Another major shift in the search engines that will continue to have a huge impact on search marketers is personalization of the search results. The search engines are starting to customize the search results for each individual searcher based on their search history, geographic location, or other demographic factors. This change makes it futile to focus on search engine rankings, because the ranking will vary depending on who’s searching.

Mobile search is another important area to consider. The newest smart phones like the G1 and iPhone make mobile search look a lot like regular web search, but it’s still a different experience searching the web from a mobile device. It’s a much smaller screen, and people aren’t usually searching for the same reasons they would search at the office or at home. Mobile search centers more around local search, it’s about finding restaurant reviews, phone numbers, directions, stuff they need to know when they’re on the go. Often, the default Google search from a mobile phone they serve up search results that are localized to the searchers location. Search tools like Google’s recently launched voice search application for the iPhone, and ChaCha, which as been around for a while, give people the option to speak search queries, or even send them via SMS text messages.

What does all this mean? It means we need to rethink how we look at search engine optimization. We need to do all the little things to make our sites relevant for our keywords. We also need to think beyond our own websites and provide unique, valuable content in as many different formats as possible. Focus on being relevant to whatever and however people might search, and your traffic and sales numbers will tell you if you are hitting your target.

Recession Means Deep Discounts on Florida Vacation Rentals

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:15:55 -0600

Early this year, when the housing market slowed down in Florida, the economists predicted that the market will bounce back in about 12 to 18 months. Housing prices fell, hotels lost money. As we reported earlier, the only real-estate related market that thrived was vacation rentals. Vacation rentals grew 17% in 2007 and were poised for another mega-growth year in 2008, when the big recession news and the financial troubles on Wall Street hit the news. And then things changed.

According to Kenny Doucette, founder of http://www.vacationrentalhotspots.com, the leading Vacation Home website in Florida, “It appears that everyone is feeling the pinch. Spending is slowing down everywhere and even the fast growing vacation rental market is experiencing slower growth. But wait, this could be a good thing for you. A lot of the rentals listed on our site have dropped prices. That, combined with relatively off-season Winter prices, Vacation homes are priced at near 5-year lows today. There couldn’t be a better time for recession relaxation, if you ask me”.

Your savings don’t just stop with your vacation home prices. Menupages.com recently reported that middle-tier restaurants (not your high-end Steakhouses or the fast food places) are lowering their prices significantly. Another report showed that Disney hasn’t raised their ticket prices like they always do. Airlines are slashing prices, gas prices have dropped in recent weeks as well. Kenny adds “As human beings, we all seem to have a herd mentality. When the news of economic slowdown hits the market, everyone stops spending, even the ones that have the money.”. If you are one of those that was smart enough to get through the recession with money still in your pocket, you deserve a break, and with recession prices, you could end up saving up to 40-50% on your vacation, which means you could spend twice the amount of time on your vacation now than you could when the economy bounces back.

http://www.VacationRentalHotSpots.com offers over 500 owner-listed vacation rental homes in Florida. This might be your best place to start.

Avoid Rental Scams! Rentalscams.org

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:37:14 -0600

Rental scams are on the rise!

Here is a great website to get more information on rental scams as well as ways to report them! As mentioned in there blog, "Scammers hate rentalscams.org"

Be sure to visit there website at Rentalscams.org

We will be updating this post to reflect the latest scams.

How to market your company/products For Todays Changing Times! A Must Watch Video!!

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:29:14 -0600

Congressman Feeney on renters and the "Forgotten Man"

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:10:44 -0500

Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:51:44 -0500

I have something un-American to confess: I rent an apartment, despite having enough money to buy a house. I plan to keep renting for as long as I can. I'm not just holding out for better prices. Renting will make me richer.

I normally write about stocks for SmartMoney.com, but the boss asked me to explain to readers my reason for renting. Here goes: Businesses are great investments while houses are poor ones, so I'd rather rent the latter and own the former.

Stocks vs. Houses: Returns

Shares of businesses return 7% a year over long time periods. I'm subtracting for inflation, gradual price increases for everything from a can of beer to an ear exam. (After-inflation or "real" returns are the only ones that matter. The point of increasing wealth is to increase buying power, not numbers on an account statement.) Shares have been remarkably consistent over the past two centuries in their 7% real returns. In Jeremy Siegel's book, "Stocks for the Long Term," he finds that real returns averaged 7.0% over nearly seven decades ending 1870, then 6.6% through 1925 and then 6.9% through 2004.

The average real return for houses over long time periods might surprise you. It's zero.

Shares return 7% a year after inflation because that's how fast companies tend to increase their profits. Houses have their own version of profits: rents. Tenant-occupied houses generate actual rents while owner-occupied houses generate ones that are implied but no less real: the rents their owners don't have to pay each year. House prices and rents have been closely linked throughout history, with both increasing at the rate of inflation, or about 3% a year since 1900. A house, after all, is an ordinary good. It can't think up ways to drive profits like a company's managers can. Absent artificial boosts to demand, house prices will increase at the rate of inflation over long time periods for a real return of zero.

Robert Shiller, a Yale economist and author of "Irrational Exuberance," which predicted the stock price collapse in 2000, has recently turned his eye to house prices. Between 1890 and 2004 he finds that real house returns would've been zero if not for two brief periods: one immediately following World War II and another since about 2000. (More on them in a moment.) Even if we include these periods houses returned just 0.4% a year, he says.

The average pundit, planner, lender or broker making the case for ownership doesn't look at returns since 1890. Sometimes they reduce the matter to maxims about "building equity" and "paying yourself" instead of "throwing money down the drain." If they do look at returns they focus on recent ones. Those tell a different story.

Between World War II and 2000 house prices beat inflation by about two percentage points a year. (Stocks during that time beat inflation by their usual seven percentage points a year.) Since 2000 houses have outpaced inflation by six percentage points a year. (Stocks have merely matched inflation.)

Stocks vs. Houses: Valuations

But while stock returns have come from increased earnings, house returns have come from ballooning valuations, not increased rents. The ratio of share prices to company earnings (the price/earnings ratio) has remained relatively steady. It's about 16 today, close to both its 1940 value of 17 and to its 130-year average of about 15. Not so, the ratio of house prices to rents. In 1940 the median single-family house price was $2,938, according to the U.S. Census, while the median rent was $27 a month, including utilities. That means the ratio of prices to annual rents was 9. By 2000 the ratio had swelled to 17. In 2005 it hit 20. We can adjust for the size of dwellings, but it doesn't make much difference. The ratio of single-family house prices to three-bedroom apartments is 19. In SmartMoney.com's home town of Manhattan, where more detailed data is available, the ratio of condo prices per square foot to apartment rents per square foot is 22.

Two main events have caused house valuations to inflate since World War II. First, the government subsidized housing by relaxing borrowing standards. Prior to the creation of the Federal Housing Authority in 1934 house buyers who borrowed typically put up 40% of the purchase price in cash for a five- to 15-year loan. By insuring mortgages, the FHA permitted terms of up to 20 years and down payments of just 20%. It later expanded the repayment periods to 30 years and reduced down payments to 5%. Today down payments for FHA loans are as low as 3%. Aggressive lenders offer loans with no down payments or even negative ones so that house buyers can borrow the full purchase price plus closing costs. Some require little documentation of income, assets or ability to pay.

That means more Americans can win loans for homes, and they can win them for far more expensive (larger) homes than their incomes previously allowed. Two-thirds of American households own homes today, up from 44% in 1940, even though the percentage of Americans living alone has tripled during that time. The ratio of house values to incomes has risen 260% in just under four decades.

A second event helped boost house demand in recent years. Share prices plunged in 2000. The Federal Reserve, fearing that the decline in stock wealth would cause consumers to stop spending, reduced the federal-funds rate, the core interest rate that determines the cost of everything from credit cards to mortgages, to 1% by the summer of 2003 from 6.5% at the start of 2001. Since most of the cost of financing a house over 30 years is interest, monthly house payments shrank and demand for houses soared. In some markets a string of big yearly increases in house prices led to panic buying.

Stocks vs. Houses: Conclusion

For house returns over the next 20 years to match those over the past 20, the government and private lenders would have to "up the ante" by relaxing borrowing standards further. Given the recent attention paid to swelling foreclosures, that seems unlikely. I suspect real returns will turn negative over most of the next two decades, but that house prices won't necessarily dip. Since 1963 they've done so in only two years, vs. 18 for stocks. That's because homeowners mostly just stick it out rather than sell during soft markets. But if house prices remain flat, they produce negative real returns due to the creep of inflation. According to calculations made by The Economist in the summer of 2005, house prices would have to stay flat for 12 years with annual inflation at 2.5% for the ratio of prices to rents to fall from its 2005 perch to merely its 1975 to 2000 average.

So to sum up why I rent: Shares right now cost 16 times earnings and over long time periods return 7% a year after inflation. Houses right now cost 19 times their "earnings" and over long time periods return zero after inflation. And they look likely to return less than that for a while.

On the following page I've tried to anticipate and address questions and objections.

Questions/Objections

"You can't live in your stocks" or "Renters throw money down the drain."

Rent is the cost of owning shares with money you would otherwise spend on a house. Houses have ownership costs, too: taxes, insurance and maintenance. Rent costs about 5% of house prices each year if we apply the price/rent ratio of 19. House incidentals often cost around 2%. If you have $300,000 and a choice between spending it on a house or shares, you'll pay $6,000 a year in incidentals if you buy the house or about $15,000 a year ($1,250 a month) in rent if you buy the shares. But the shares will return $21,000 a year after inflation while the house will return zero. (My numbers work out even better than these. I pay a smidgen less than $1,250 a month for rent, while house prices in my neighborhood are far higher than $300,000.)

Note that houses and shares have transaction costs, too. Home buyers pay around 1% in closing costs when they buy and 6% in broker commissions when they sell. Share buyers pay $10 trading commissions, which are negligible for buy-and-hold investors.

"House buyers get tax breaks."

So do share buyers, but both are a bad deal. The interest on loans for houses (mortgages) and shares (margin balances) is tax-deductible. But the rates are almost always too high. A big house loan presently costs 6.1% interest while a big stock loan costs about 9%. For the returns, we can forget about inflation because it helps debtors while hurting investors, making it a wash for those who borrow to invest. Still, nominal returns of 3% for houses and 10% for stocks aren't high enough to justify those rates. The tax breaks aren't really breaks at all. Moreover, a majority of homeowners don't claim them. Their incomes are low enough to make the standard deduction a better deal.

"What about the pride of home ownership?"

It's not for me. I define ownership as no longer having to pay for something and being able to do as I please with it. I own my coffee maker. House owners must pay taxes each year even when their mortgage payments are done. In certain markets they can't even make changes to the houses they've paid for without seeking the approval of others. Personally, I feel the pride of ownership for shares of businesses, and I'm proud to occupy a nice place while leaving the burden of poor returns and maintenance to someone else.

"You seem to knock government housing subsidies, but they've helped many Americans afford homes."

My inner socialist agrees. My other inner socialist worries that the government has effectively raised prices to the point where the middle class can't afford houses, or buries itself in debt to own them. My inner capitalist is too busy watching shares to care about house prices. My inner conspiracy theorist notes that while politicians tout the social benefits of homeownership none mentions its tax benefits to the government. I pay no taxes on the overall value of my stock portfolio, just on my cashed-in gains and collected dividends. But Americans pay taxes on the full $11 trillion worth of housing they own plus the $10 trillion worth of it they're still paying off.

"Houses are bigger than apartments."

True, and both can be rented. A third of renters live in single-family houses. I prefer an apartment for now. I like not having to fill it with stuff. I like using a fifth of the energy of the average American. I like being 20 minutes from work and (this is unique to New Yorkers) not having owned a car in 10 years. I like not stressing over whether to get the marble countertops or the imported tiles or the 52-inch flat screen. I'm not especially frugal; I spend a teacher's salary each year on restaurants and travel. But I guess I'm too busy or lazy right now to bother with a big house and its innards.

"Are you saying I should sell my big house and rent an apartment instead?"

No, unless you have more space than you need and moving wouldn't be disruptive to your family, and you want to cash in on recent housing gains, make more money over the next couple of decades, use less energy while simplifying your life, and you don't mind seeming odd to friends. In which case, yes. But really, I'm not trying to win anyone over. Strong demand for houses keeps my rent cheap.

"Renting is for poor people."

True. But it's for rich people, too. The average renter makes about $34,000 a year, but while the percentage of renters declines after incomes exceed $20,000 and rents exceed $600 a month, it jumps again once incomes top $150,000 and rents top $1,200 a month. In other words, poor people rent modest apartments for lack of choice. Middle-income people buy houses. High-income people, presumably with a dose of financial savvy, often rent nice apartments instead of buying.

"You say houses return zero. But I've made a fortune on my house in recent years."

I'm referring to inflation-adjusted returns over long time periods, absent external boosts to demand. You're referring to gross returns over a short time period that combined lax borrowing standards and ultra-low interest rates. Over the next 20 years I believe houses will return zero or slightly less after inflation and that stocks will return 7%.

"So you're never going to buy a house? What about raising a family?"

I might buy one eventually, but the longer I can put it off the more I'll get out of the shares I'll have to sell to afford it. I'm 34 now with a fiancée and a fish. I'm going to try to rent for at least 10 more years. If I have kids I'll probably move into a big apartment or a house once they reach running-around age. I'll rent, most likely.

5 Tips for Putting Rental Properties on Craigslist

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:00:37 -0500

Lately I have become an avid blog reader on the net. There is tons of information to learn from blogging.

I recently came across a marketing blog called "Marketing Punk" The blog is run by James Omdahl On online Marketeer and blogger.

He recently posted a video titled "5 Tips for Putting Rental Properties on Craigslist"

I think anyone who list properties on craigslist for sale or rent or anywere else for that matter should watch this video, James has some great pointers for listing your property on craigslist...Who knows....you may end up attracting a few good buyers by going the extra mile.

You can read the full text version "here"

What the heck?!? Congress is passing welfare for Wall Street.

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:51:12 -0500

Came across this website...

http://www.angryrenter.com

Comments?

Are you a Property Manager/Realtor Trying to Grow Your Business? **Updated**

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:19:15 -0500

In recent weeks I have spoken to many, many property managers in the north Florida area and many of them have told me they need more properties to manage. And if our website could help them capture more homeowners looking for a property manager to manage there property.

In the past many of our property managers have had great success on our site with there company listing in our property manager directory That ranks #1 in Google for the most popular term "Jacksonville Property Manage rs"

But after further review of some management companies in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Etc.... I have noticed many of them are not even listed in the local Yellow Pages, Yahoo local, Google local, etc.... How can this be? These are basic steps to creating a presence on the information super highway :)

Let me explain....Do a simple search for whatever market you live in (jacksonville property managers)...What do you always see at the top of search results????

YOU GUESSED IT!

95% of every search you type in will return "LOCAL" results for companies listed in google local, yahoo local, etc.. With direct links to your xyz website.

Having your business listed in these directory's will greatly increase your website traffic, phone leads, and hopefully a new management contract, a new lease.... The possibilities are endless!!!

Here is a short list of yellow pages directory's that you can list your company in. (these are of the top of my head)

http://www.localeaze.com (used to be a paid listing service)
http://www.theyellowpages.com/
http://www.superpages.com/
http://www.yellowpages.com/
http://yp.yahoo.com/
http://www.yellowbook.com/
http://www.realpageslive.com/
http://www.switchboard.com/
https://www.google.com/local/add/

**edit** I forgot a good one that is also free!
http://advertise.local.com/

These directory's are free! Many of these companies share data between each other. Meaning if you list your company in theyellowpages.com it may also appear on yellowpages.com

Hopefully this will be helpful to property managers just starting out and looking for business.

Good Luck!

World's Most Expensive Rental Markets

Robbie T (FloridaRentalAds.com) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:01:53 -0500

According to the real estate article World's Most Expensive Rental Markets featured on Forbes.com the American dollar's recent plunge has made rental markets throughout the world rather pricey. For example, in Hong Kong, according to dollar adjustments, a two-bedroom, unfurnished apartment costs over $6,000 a month in comparison to the $4,000 in Moscow. According to calculate these figures, Forbes.com, has adjusted local currencies to dollars. However, the value of the dollar has remained daunting, as in 2007, the dollar was at a record low in comparsion to the euro, falling 11% in 2006. Also, against the pound, the dollar hit a record 25-year low as well in 2007.

Read the entire real estate feature World's Most Expensive Rental Markets on Forbes.com