Free Rental Site PickRent.com Is Now Live

For years, I have been wanting to create a FREE national rental site.  Three months ago, I finally started.  Yesterday, PickRent.com went live.  It took about 180 hours for me to create.

Dan Daugherty (left) from RentMarketer.com helped me celebrate my site going live by having lunch with me in Denver at Mona’s Restaurant.  Dan’s company will help me load it up with rentals!

If you want to see one of the rental listings on the site please visit the Las Vegas rentals page.

I will be looking to contact other rental sites to see if they would like to post their rentals on PickRent as well.  Again, for free! I can post just the snippet of the rental listing and link to my competitors sites for the detailed listing info, much the way Oodle does it.

So if you are one of my competitors and would like some traffic from me, please contact me.  I can get the XML feed going.

I still have some work ahead of me to eliminate the duplicate listings that are bound to happen from various XML feeds, but I am optimistic I can provide a good user experience for my visitors.

How will I monetize this site?  My hope is to generate revenue from premier listings that are listed before the free listings. I don’t plan on releasing the premier ads until I meet a critical mass in traffic, which should take a while.

If you have a chance, please look at the site and give it a test drive.  Let me know if you find anything wrong or if you have any thoughts or suggestions.