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Real Estate Listing Standard Established - Rentals Next?

Posted by Dave Dugdale  Published in HomeRentals.net

As reported by Inman News Trulia Zillow and Yahoo! has a adopted a common standard for real estate listings to feed among real estate sites.

Will RentalHomePros be the one to set the standard in the Rental industry, or has HomeRentals.net already done that?

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Robbie said in January 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

Dave,
I don’t understand what the article means??
Do you have a link to it?

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Dave Dugdale said in January 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

I don’t have a link.

It just means they have a XML feed standard now.

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superhomerentals.com said in January 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

you should do a blog on the xml feed so i would love to know more about that

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Anonymous said in January 10th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

MITS might be a place to start (mitsproject.org). It already defines xml schemas for some parts of apartment rentals etc.

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Robbie said in January 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

Ok….Yes, Xml rocks! To distribute data!

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superhomerentalscom.blogspot.com said in January 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

THANKS -RENTVINE “THE HOME RENTAL INFO PLACE “

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jessica cohen said in January 25th, 2008 at 2:18 am

Hello

Well done blog. I enjoyed reading it. I always wanted to know if my rent was average in the neighborhoods i was in, but i always had to call around and find out rentals in the area. I spoke to my friends at http://www.homeinspectionspecialist.com and they told me that there is a site out there called: http://www.rentometer.com . Here you can find out if you are Charging too little for rent? or Paying too much for rent? I thought this might be a good resource to share with everyone. I look forward to all the updates.

Jessica

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Dave Dugdale said in January 25th, 2008 at 9:05 am

Jessica,

I think rentometer is a good site to get you in the ball park. But I am pretty sure that it is taking the asking prices for rent off many web sites and then averaging them. I believe it is not taking the actual rent price in to consideration.

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Wendy Frenzel said in January 28th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Dave - From my understanding, you are correct on rentometer. It could be likened to what Zillow is for sales - it may get you close but it’s not going to take into account all of the other factors. There are so many factors involved besides just bedrooms and bathrooms - square footage, layout, garage size, office space, and view just to name a few. By averaging, you just can’t get a perfect number.