I just wanted to post this like I said as I have been real sick I have a cold and it's has been raining here all day and that's not helping so I am off to bed -will follow up on this asap - ON THE RUN ALLAN
Rentals.com Loses Traffic From NARPM
If you look on the home page of the NARPM site you will see that the image link on the top right has been changed from Rentals.com to RentalHomePros.com.
So I wonder if NARPM is losing money because Rentals.com is not paying them for that home page link now?
I can only assume that RentalHomePros does not have to pay for that link. Will we see an increase in NARPM dues?
Wouldnt this be considered a breach of contract since they signed up for the sponsorship which included a logo on the NARPM homepage? My guess is Primedia has more lawyers than NARPM, should be interesting.
Josh,
Any idea how much time was left on the Rentals.com contract with NARPM?
They still are listed as academy partner for the “The Property Management Academy”
Rentals.com is “The Property Management Academy” partner through July.
The thing is Rentals.com DOES NOT need the NARPM link . They don’t need it trust me - unlike my website most property managers know of rentals.com they don’t know about me at all . But they do know of Rentals.com! I don’t care who you are the market is this property managers (real estate agents ) , real estate investors , the small guy with a rental or two , after that the next line is the RENTER PERIOD - DAN OVER AT RENTMARKETER WROTE A BLOG ONCE THAT LISTED I THINK IT WAS 5 THINGS THAT CAN KILL A REAL ESTATE WEBSITE LISTING COMPANY ( SOME THING LIKE THAT NOT SURE WHAT THE TITLE WAS ) ONE OF HIS POINTS WAS NOT HAVING LISTINGS -AT THE END OF THE DAY IT IS ALL ABOUT TWO THINGS LISTING HAVING THEM AND TRAFFIC SO IF RENTALS.COM CAN CREATE TRAFFIC
( which the traffic will BE renter’s looking for places to rent ) RENTALS.COM WILL BE ABLE TO GET THE LISTINGS -CASE IN POINT MY WEBSITE SMALL UNHEARED OF WHY LIST WITH ME - THE THING I NEED IS LISTINGS AS I CAN GET TRAFFIC TO VIEW THE HOMES IF I HAD LISTINGS AS I GET ON A BAD DAY 40 EMAILS LOOKING FOR HOMES - PERIOD ! THERE IS NOT A DAY THAT GOES BY THAT I DONT GET 40 EMAILS OF PEOPLE LOOKING FOR RENTAL HOMES SO WHAT DO I DO –I SEND THEM IF THEY ARE LOOKING IN JACKSONVILLE TO ROBBIE’S WEBSITE OR IF THEY ARE SOME WERE IN THE UNITED STATES TO RENTVINE - SIMPLE I TRY MY BEST TO HELP THEM HOPING ONE DAY THEY WILL BE BACK AND THAT I WILL HAVE LISTINGS THEN AS THEY ARE RENTERS SO THEY HAVE TO COME BACK SOME WERE TO LOOK AT HOMES WHEN THEIR LEASE IS UP RIGHT ? UNLESS THE NEXT GO AROUND THEY BUY A HOME - AND I HOPE WHEN THEY DO LOOK TO RENT I HAVE SOME LISTINGS FOR THEM TO VIEW - AS FOR RENTALS.COM THEY WILL CREATE TRAFFIC FROM OTHER SOURCES THE FREE MAGAZINE (I WROTE ABOUT THIS IN DAN’S BLOG ) WERE DO YOU THINK THE PROPERTY MANAGER’s WILL LIST AT THE END OF THE DAY - THE PLACE WERE THE MOST PEOPLE WILL COME TO VIEW LISTING’S AT - TRUST ME THIS IS GOING TO BE A WAR AND RENTALS.COM WILL WIN IT -
40 EMAILS A DAY X 7 DAYS A WEEK = 280
280 X 4 WEEKS (MONTH )= 1,120
1,120 X 12 MONTHS = 13,440 EMAILS A YEAR JUST FOR RENTALS — AND THE MOST RENTALS I HAVE EVER HAD LISTED WAS 55 AT ONE TIME NOW THATS JUST THE EMAILS SO HOW MANY PEOPLE VIEW ME AND DONT EMAIL ME ?
FROM RENTBITS.COM
Is Rentals.com cutting back its marketing spend with NARPM? Rentals.com has consistently advertised full page ads in the Residential Resource, NARPMs monthly magazine. The January 2008 Issue does not have Rentals.com or RentalHouses.com in any of the pages.
Where did they go?
5 Responses to “Rentals.com Not in NARPM Magazine”
Perhaps they are not happy with NARPM because of RentalHomePros.com?
By Dave Dugdale on Dec 27, 2007
they are spending those dollars else were -wait and see as they are working on their own new bimonthly publication
By superhomerentals.com on Dec 31, 2007
SuperHomeRentals, are you saying they are going to compete with NARPM?
By Dan on Dec 31, 2007
NARPM is loosing market presence as property managers are looking at other trade organizations to assist them in obtaining knowledge, education, as well as networking opportunities.
After several years of growing pains, NARPM boards’ decisions to raise dues; make poor choices in convention locations; re-design their website to where it is no longer user friendly; change association management company; and not expanding and updating their educational offerings have allowed organizations such as FARPM with their own convention in SUNNY FLORIDA, their own professional designations and educational offerings to attract many property managers to their fold.
By Gibson on Jan 8, 2008
sorry it has taken me so long to post this as i have been trying to find the email i got from one of my friends over there that told me that his thought’s where they were going to start their own bimonthly magazine which will be given out free my understanding is they want one just for the home rental market and have been toying with the idea in order to do that the funding has to come from some were they own DistribuTech is the largest distributor of free publications in the United States with over 60,000 locations in 41 states, comprised of 72 markets. They maintain exclusive community rack programs with some of the nation’s largest retail chains, including grocery, drug, convenience, video, fitness and other mass merchandise locations. Delivering 39 million publications annually on behalf of PRIMEDIA’s Consumer Source division, DistribuTech also leases pocket space to the more than 2,000 other free publications it distributes.
Apartment Guide is an integrated media business, delivering rental information to consumers via print, Internet and mobile devices. Apartment Guide consists of 77 publications in 74 cities and ApartmentGuide.com, which is available throughout all U.S. markets
Rentals.com is a comprehensive Real Estate rental site with one of the largest collections of single-unit and vacation rental information on the Internet. The site encompasses nearly 45,000 complete listings, including its own as well as select inventory from ApartmentGuide.com. Its network of sites also delivers listings not only to Rentals.com, but RentalHouses.com and a variety of third party sites.
New Home Guide, NewHomeGuide.com and NewHomeDirectory.com are a blended media business. Anchored by New Home Guide, Their Home division consists of 35 publications in 19 states, Washington D.C. and Sao Paulo Brazil (25 major markets). These directories provide accurate information about all new home communities in their respective areas, as well as give display advertising opportunities for clients to showcase product and inventory. The guides are published monthly and provided free of charge to home buyers.
SO CAN ANY ONE TELL ME OF A MAGAZINE MONTHLY OR BI MONTHLY THAT IS GIVEN OUT FOR FREE WITH HOME RENTAL’S IN IT ONLY - IT IS ALMOST LIKE A MAGAZINE CALLED AUTO TRADER BUT WITH HOME RENTALS
my feeling on rentalhomepros.com is that it is never going to take off its going to be a big joke -yes DAN i feel they are going to compete against NARPM and i think it will be a great thing as a monthly magazine will increase awareness to other websites like mine and rentvine and firstcoastrentads with the increase of people losing there homes and looking for rentals they look for home rentals not apartments -why renting an apartment truth be told makes them feel like they went backwards in life - its that simple -this magazine is geared to the home renter looking for a place what better idea is there why spend money with ads for memeber of NARPM they know that rentalhouses.com is out there so go after a new market if you have a free magazine you are giving out and can sell ADS OR LISTINGS on it and use it as a tool to get NARPM members to pay you go for it ! they been pay for ads too long ! NARPM SHOULD HAVE NEVER WENT IN TO THIS MARKET PERIOD
WWW.SUPERHOMERENTALS.COM
By superhomerentals.com on Jan 14, 2008