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As a landlord are your rents too high or low?

A lot of folks have become landlords by either hanging on to property because of the market change or as a retirement solution.

A new website tool called rentometer.com is now available. This tool can be used by renters and landlords to measure how a property's rent stacks up against similar homes or apartments nearby.

Using data from listings provided by rental marketing firms and property owners/managers and listings publicly available on the Web, the site's "Rentometer" gauge provides a quick visual comparison of a property's rent to the area's rental range.

The site is easy to use and provides users with a quick estimate of how their rents match up against neighborhood rates. However the Rentometer only considers a rental property's address, number of bedrooms and total units in a building when comparing rates -- so if you rent a two-bedroom penthouse in a new full-service building, your unit may be compared to dissimilar rentals -- say neighborhood basement apartments in older buildings with relatively few amenities.

Rentometer added a feature that allows landlords and property managers to post their listings on their site. Also a tool to allow you to add their data to your website. Check it out!

Copyright 2007 Heidi Franklin http://www.heidisellshomes.com

Are you using Lowe's Realtor Benefit Site?

Lowe's is providing to Realtors:

• Free Personalized Direct Mail Pieces
• Discounts to our clients
• Discounted Gift cards
• DVD for sellers - helping them stage
• Free helpful articles
• Bi-monthly Creative Ideas magazine
• Realtor Rebates
• Even an RSS feed to add to your website to povide industry news

Here is how the program works:

1) Log on to LowesRealtorBenefits.com
2) Register online, NRDS# required for Realtor® designation validation.
3) After registration, enter buyer and/or seller information and Lowe's will send a fully customized offer to your client - branded to you and your company.

What a great value to present to your clients and Lowe's does all the work and the postage.

Copyright 2007 Heidi Franklin http://www.heidisellshomes.com