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post #221

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That's why you have a lease. It should outline the manager's responsibilities re: maintenance. Your options for recourse are numerous, from filing a lawsuit to not renewing your rent and moving on.

Yes, your options for recourse are numerous and likely to cause YOU significant pain. Why should my option be "Sue or pay thousands of dollars to move" if the landlord just elects not to fix something?

Which is true regardless. What point are you trying to make?

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post #54

How is this different than propertysolutions.com?

That's a good question. I don't know myself. Do you have other competitors in this space?

It's an incredibly fragmented market. There's plenty of competition, but the biggest players in property management software (http://www.realpage.com and http://www.yardi.com) have less than 10% of the market.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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I find one HUGE error. In today's world, you call the people that rent from you "residents" -- not "tenants". When I see or hear the word tenant it make me cringe. Might as well draw your fingernails across a chalkboard. Tenants rent office, industrial and retail buildings. Residents rent apartment units. I have a million other comments as well, some favorable and others negative, but I hate to type and am too busy to bother going into this at length. Good luck going forward. Lots of other competitors out there -- but your pricing does seem reasonable.

Oh and BTW, I would NEVER rent a building from DanBlake. He's the type of person who gives the industry a black eye, as well as ensuring that the indutry stays at least 10 years behind the tech curve.

That is all.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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post #177

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Banks charge 1-2% as a credit card fee, but no fees for using checks. In my building, they pass the fee along to me (the tenant), so it's in my best interest to pay by check.

You've gone straight from "why the hell are people still using cash/check to pay bills in this day and age?" to "it's in my best interest to pay by check", via the assumption that the only alternative is credit card. Why not, say, just log into your online banking and arrange an electronic transfer to the landlord's account on a set day of each month? I think this was parent poster's point - that in some countries (e…

I should have clarified, I lumped electronic checks in with physical ones in understanding the parent's point. I use electronic checking transfers to pay my rent, not physical handwritten checks. Most bills in the US (including rent) have an E-Check option, and that's what a lot of people use. I assumed when the parent was talking about alternatives to cash + checks, they meant credit/debit.
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