[Gaulkin]

Ive been thinking of opening a listings website for rentals, houses, foreclosures and such. Id like this because it will work in conjunction with my already established real estate company. The website will be the works and do everything for me. If you all could give me some advise on the path to take on this that would be great.

[David Rocci]

How do you propose to collect the data? Would it be a community driven forum? Who would be the target audience? realtors, middle men or the actual renters? investors?

Foreclosure and pre-foreclosure work requires a lot of research... realtytrac.com has a kick-butt setup for foreclosures already but maybe you could carve out a niche for specific types of foreclosures?

How would you make money on this site? Would you charge for membership? or let people post their rentals, houses for free but charge the people looking to buy? charge to list? or maybe a small transaction fee? like a web-based help-u-sell?

I think you may be on to something but these questions may help you sharpen your focus. The big portion of the bell curve is already satisfied with these broad terms but the ends of the bell curve (focused niche) can still be served.

I'm happy to act as a devil's advocate... let me know if I can be of any additional assistance. Good luck!

-dr

[Gaulkin]

No this will be a pay x amount for x amount of time and you can list your listing. It is just like all the other out there except im going to incorporate the norm plus something new with the ability to list your foreclosure.

[usakos]

Originally Posted by Gaulkin

Ive been thinking of opening a listings website for rentals, houses, foreclosures and such. Id like this because it will work in conjunction with my already established real estate company. The website will be the works and do everything for me. If you all could give me some advise on the path to take on this that would be great.

so, then you will compete against us, RentersQ; and also against Craigslist.org, Rent.com, ForRent.com, Yahoo Real Estate, Apartments.com, ApartmentGuide.com, Houses.com, ForSaleBuyOwner.com, homes.com, and zillions of other sites out there?

If so, welcome to the most crowded market, anywhere. But you must really do a thoroughly market research before you jump in this crowded ship, or else, poor traffic may force you to shut down before you even open it for business, unless you bring something different and better to the market.

[Gaulkin]

Read my above post, i am bring something new to the table. What industry is not filled with businesses doing the same thing? Competition is everywhere.... I am not scared to compete with other sites because i know i have the capital to compete. Ive tried finding information on this business but i cant come up with anything. Do you know where its located or what to search for?


No offense but your website is not very user friendly and i dont see anyone actually using your site. Have you made any money off of it yet? How much have you marketed?

[usakos]

Originally Posted by Gaulkin

Read my above post, i am bring something new to the table. I am not scared to compete with other sites because i know i have the capital to compete. Ive tried finding information on this business but i cant come up with anything. Do you know where its located or what to search for?

No offense but your website is not very user friendly and i dont see anyone actually using your site. Have you made any money off of it yet? How much have you marketed?

Then good luck my friend.

Don't worry about our site. We're doing very well and exceedingly more than we've expected it. We're doing news interview once a week, news articles about our site are popping up each week, read our news page. Another news article is coming out on Thursday in the west coast area by a major newspaper. And we just had a TV interview by a major TV News Network. And we will be at DEMO in the fall 2007, read about DEMO, and you will learn that only the best gets to participate in the DEMO conferences.

PS. We don't see anyone using your site either and we haven't read anything about your site in the news media. Or did we miss reading one of your news articles?

[Gaulkin]

lol.... there still stands the fact that there is not any listings on your website.

[usakos]

Originally Posted by Gaulkin

lol.... there still stands the fact that there is not any listings on your website.

what are you talking about?

[Gaulkin]

No one uses your site..... i cant find anything anywhere on there.

Ps. I dont need any stupid media "news" to make money but you apparently need alot of it to make nothing

[usakos]

Originally Posted by Gaulkin

No one uses your site..... i cant find anything anywhere on there.

well, based on your first posting when you first came on here, you were describing how you don't even know what it takes or cost to run a web site like this, so based on your first thread and all other subsequent questions and answers, it tells me that you don't know how to search, and if you have no clue whatsoever how even this web site works, then how can you find out or see who uses our site?

So, do you think when people use our site or any other sites that you will be able to see them while they are using it? Or did you expect that when someone creates a Record or property listing that it will be displayed by all to see? I guess you need to learn more how to search, and if you search a property listing in a certain area on our site, does not mean that there are no property listed on the site.

Our site went live on May 1, 2007, and we have over xx,xxx properties of all kinds listed in different parts of the world.

And, you're here trying to bash our site, with no cause, but did you actually read my initial reply to this thread that I simply was trying to answer your question and not trying to bash you? Or where is your animosity toward me or our site coming from?

Your first thread titled "Hello" asks questions about how to get started in property listings and my answer hence to was simply to offer help to your questions. So what's the problem with you with me or our site?