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Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by rwhitman »

I think this is great. I've been dreaming of a day when I can do online billing with a landlord.

I once had a landlord where I was doing online bill pay from BofA, and they would mail the landlord physical checks, but the landlord wouldn't accept them. Apparently they periodically would think the bank's automated check was junk mail and would toss them in the trash and persisted to accuse me of not paying rent. So I will never mail a rent check again without a physical check in a handwritten envelope.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by amirmc »

dannytatom wrote: post #28
amirmc wrote: post #6

What's with the '$get_social()' on the bottom right of the page? I'm guessing it's not meant to be like that.

I think it's just a clever way to show their Twitter, Facebook, etc.

I found the dollar sign and underscore confusing. As though there was something wrong with the markup.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by rradu »

amirmc wrote: post #6

What's with the '$get_social()' on the bottom right of the page? I'm guessing it's not meant to be like that.

I think it is a silly way to present the social networking links, but not exactly appropriate given the audience. I'd take that off.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by oojacoboo »

bowmande wrote: post #24

This looks great. I think you have a great looking and useful product here. It could take awhile to catch on, but I think you have something.

it's not a blow-up-over-night groupon or zynga business, we know. Our goal is to create a sustainable business with healthy growth. Thanks for your kind words.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by tsalfie »

As a current Buildium user, I really like the look of this. I'm a small property manager and although I love the convenience of having software like this available I'm curious how your online payments are processed. My biggest complaint with my current program is that it takes 5-7 days for rents to hit my account and then another 5-7 for them to hit the owners' accounts.

I think a great market for a product like this would be real estate agents that do some property management (10-25 units).

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by oojacoboo »

pjleonhardt wrote: post #11

I've thought about doing something like this for a long while. Finally I had an apartment complex a couple years ago that allowed you to pay online (e-checks only), so maybe the industry is finally ready for this. Expect a lot of resistance to landlords letting tenants pay with anything but e-checks, though. Think about adding something like automatically sending out emails to tenants to remind them to pay the rent (…

thanks for this, yea, we are connected with the ACH network for check processing, and we do send notices to tenants. We realize that the pricing is a bit low.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by oojacoboo »

javan wrote: post #20

I would change the "Few Goodies" wording on the Take the Tour page; it feels like there's very few goodies. "Highlights" or even "A Few Goodies" works better.

wow yea, I thought for sure that said "A Few Goodies" :/

I dont' like that section all together though... needs redoing.

Re: Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

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Post by hippo33 »

amirmc wrote: post #22
vaksel wrote: post #5

the problem is that most property owners aren't tech savvy. Most of them don't even have a webpage. And I'm not talking about the 1-2 unit owners...I'm talking about multi building companies with $600K in yearly revenue who haven't even bothered to setup a 1 page site with their phone # and hours of operation. If you are going to take on this market, you are going to need a direct on the ground sales team.

I'd be interested to know what kind of Customer Development went on here. How many discussions took place with potential users and what were the problems they pointed out that RentPost is now solving?

Totally agree - I'm not sure most people on this list are actually landlords/property managers to be able to say whether or not landlords/property manager would or wouldn't be able to use this.

From an end user perspective, I think the design looks totally awesome. And, I would be thrilled if my property manager would adopt this.

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