Full-service residential property web site designed with tools for property owners/landlords to reach higher quality tenants than are currently available through available web marketing platforms. It will also provide prospective tenants access to properties that may not be available on other sites, and cuts out the high broker or listing fees to be paid by landlords or tenants.
## Deliverables
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**Landlord Features**
The site will allow landlords to list their vacancies and provide detailed descriptions and photographs, in the same way [login to view URL] operates.
In addition, the site will provide service features to landlords such as the ability to access credit reports and/or background checks.? This will require encryption and security.
Properties will be entered into the system and categorized based on a variety of parameters. Properties will automatically be assigned a unique ID code.
Landlords will be able to pay an additional fee to make their listing a “featured listing?? that will be more prominently displayed.
**Prospective Tenant Features**
Prospective tenants must pay a membership fee to search and obtain information on listings.
Listings are searchable by a variety of parameters, including minimum number of bedrooms, bathrooms, price range, pets allowed, with/without photo, building size, property type (home, apartment, condo, loft, etc.) location (broken down deeper by address radius search, zip code (with and without radius), amenities, and keyword. Searches can also be done by location region, so all properties in a particular pocket will show up without any filters.
Map search is desirable but not mandatory ??" depends on cost.
Searches should be savable and namable, and a clipboard will be available to attach saved/interesting listings to for future inquiry.
Listings will be shown in a grid format with choice of between 10-50 listings per page and a corresponding Google Map with pins showing individual locations.
Tenants should be able to sign up for an email and/or twitter feature so that when matches come up they are automatically sent.
Tenants will have access to a mobile text feature where they are able to text the property’s unique ID code and receive a SMS message in return outlining the basic information of the property ??" the system will be able to determine if the mobile phone the SMS was sent from belongs to a member or not ??" if not they will receive a message directing them to the website for membership.
**Additional Service Features**
Roommate Finder Matching Service