Prediction: Rentals.com Will Be NARPM’s Vendor of the Year

Rentclicks won the last two when they ponied up for the platinum package. I have a feeling your prediction will come true!

NARPM probably hates to see Rentclicks and Rentalhouses fold into Rentals. Less vendors available to pay the big sponsorship bucks!

Carnac

revolutionary????

I am assuming sarcasm was implied on the text messaging. That is one of the dumbest features I have seen. It is an easy, cheap add on for websites to offer, that they source through a third party. There was minimal development time done to add the text ‘feature’. The only people that will use this are college towns, or 14 year old cheerleaders. Not much of splash in the rental market…

Do you think I should list all the NARPM vendors in a poll and everyone can vote here?

I started to create the list to vote on but there are way too many vendors!

The widget is a pretty good idea…

Not much of a prediction. According to the Narpm website and the show prospectus, the official partnership has already been sold to Rentals for 20k. Rentalhomesplus spent 5k to become a silver sponsor, and 2 other companies have spent 3k to become bronze partners. The platinum sponsorship is still available for 15k and 2 gold sponsorships are still available for 10k. No mystery here, the prices are clearly printed in the show prospectus.

20K 5K,

I can see the prices are marked in the show prospectus but where are you seeing that the silver and bronze have been sold?

[Will you be at your booth #1 in Scottsdale so I can meet you?]

Wow, what a gigantic bunch of sour grapes! I follow this blog regularly, and I only comment when I feel it necessary. Here is our history with affiliate of the year:

1. An affiliate must be a national affiliate for at least two years to be eligible.

2. In all years previous to 2005, the board of directors would vote for the affiliate of the year based on the board’s criteria. There were only a handful of national vendors eligible at that time so it usually was alternated between homerentals.net and Promas.

3. Starting in 2005, the NARPM members were sent a survey in which they were asked to vote for affiliate of the year. There were 18 candidates, and my contact at NARPM told me that RentClicks received over 75% of the vote. So this means that we won fair and square based on the members votes in the first year we were eligible.

4. In 2006, the same format was followed, and we won again. I do not know the margin of victory, but the number of eligible companies was more than 50. Many companies believed that if they just copied us and joined NARPM, they could compete with us. So, in our first year we were eligible, and the first year of a democrat vote of NARPM members, we won. In our second year of eligibility, and the second year of the vote, we became the only affiliate in the history of NARPM to win back to back affiliate of the year awards.

Any notion that we “bought” the award is absurd and childish. Maybe revolutionizing the way property managers advertise, and saving them time and money in the process is worthy of this award. Also, we put our money where our mouth was. We greatly appreciated NARPM members business, and in return we wanted to “pony” up for the biggest sponsorship. It’s also noteworthy that when we joined there were 4 or 5 national NARPM affiliate members, now there are over 100. Maybe you should consider the remote possibility that we worked our asses off to gain the business of NARPM members, and that our leadership led to huge growth among their national affiliates. This increase in the number of vendors was worth way more to NARPM than the cost of our “official partnership.” Instead of constantly complaining about the politics at NARPM, which there are plenty, maybe you should shake some of their hands and win their business like we did. Dave

HomeRentals.net won. I wonder if the new RentalHomePros.com will be a shoe in next time?