Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- What is your privacy policy?
- Who is Tenant.com?
- Are you brokers or a real estate agency?
- How can you avoid fraud?
- How can I get listed in the Agent/Broker directory?
- Do you own the properties on this website?
- Why use this site?
- How much does it cost?
- Do you charge a fee or commission on reservations or leases?
- How do I get started?
- What other sites interface with Tenant.com?
- How is this site different than other property rental advertising sites?
- Who can use this site?
- What kind of rentals are on this site?
- Can I add a complete year for weekly rates?
- Can I add an availability calendar?
- Can I use my Tenant.com listing link in a printed ad or web site?
- How can I directly access my listing?
- How does a prospective tenant contact me?
- Can each listing have different contact info?
- Why doesn't my email show on my listing?
- How can I measure my listing's activity?
- What is Tenant.com's Alexa ranking?
- How can I retrieve my password?
- Do I have to display my listing's address?
- Can I adjust my listing's map location?
- Can I add pictures to my listing?
- Is there an additional charge to add pictures to my listing?
- How can I add or delete pictures to my listing?
- What size and type pictures can I use?
- Why are my pictures blurry?
- How can I change my audio voice tour?
- Can I link to my home page?
- Can I link to Tenant.com or my Tenant.com listing on my home page?
- How does the voice information system work?
- How does my property become a feature listing?
- How does my property become a top viewed listing?
- How does the submission to base.Google.com system work?
- Will my listing get indexed by the search engines?
- What should I do to help with search engine indexing?
- Can I batch upload my listings?
- How can I contact Tenant.com?
- How was this site created?
- What are sites similar to Tenant.com?
- Disclaimers
- We respect your privacy. We do not sell or share any of your contact information with third parties.
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- Tenant.com is another AtTheBeach.com Inc. site. You can contact us here.
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- NO! - We are an on-line classified ad website. Brokers provide far greater services than a web site. Real Estate brokers provide valuable services for a fair, negotiated fee. In particular:
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- are governed by laws in the state they serve
- insulate both Tenant & Landlord from direct contact
Additionally, most (but not all) brokers/agents are also Realtors® identified by the Realtor® logo
when they are also members of the National Association of Realtors® and abide by its strict Code of Ethics.
Our site strongly suggests that you work with a Realtor when and where possible!
Back To TopThis site makes no warranties or representaions of the advertised properties posted on this site. We do NOT own or represent any property or landlord or tenant. Though not a complete list, please:
Tenants- before signing a lease consult with an Attorney
- work with a broker/Realtor
- do not give out personal information ie. Social Security number, bank information, credit card ...
- inspect and verify the property you are renting
- avoid listings that are devoid of contact information and additional urls and links
- do not send checks or monies without verifying ownership
- make payments through a known, secure and reputable escrow service (ie. Broker Trust Account, PayPal.com, Escrow.com, ...)
- avoid 'sight unseen' rentals
- avoid listings that have strange upfront fees
- verify that the correct person(s) are the owners or are the owner's representative
- do not go to see the property alone
- before signing a lease consult with an Attorney
- work with a broker/Realtor
- do not give out personal information like bank numbers, Social Security numbers, ...
- avoid taking checks or monies greater than the expected amount with tenant paybacks
- avoid strange and 'out of the ordinary' request
- do not show the property alone
- Google Search: rental fraud
- Craigslist: Avoiding scams and fraud
Back To TopTo get listed in the agent/broker's directory you need:
- to be a licensed agent/broker that represents rental properties.
- to be an agent/broker in 'My Profile'.
- to check the 'In Directory' option in 'My Profile'.
- a Company Name
- a Contact Name
- a Contact Phone number
- a Contact Email
- a Complete Contact Address
- a homepage link
- a geographic service area
- to login to your account bi-monthly (ie. at least once every 60 days)
- to allow Tenant.com to peridocially email you with notices of updates and changes to our site(s).
Additionally, we strongly encourage that you provide a link to the governing agency of your real estate license so that visitors can verify your license and its status.
Examples:
- James S. Ginn, NJ licensed broker
- Edward G. Ginn, PA licensed broker
- Edward G. Ginn, DE licensed broker
- NO!
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- There are many reasons to use our site. Here are seven:
Back To Top- First and most importantly, we have activity.
- Second, results via:
- direct email.
- direct links to your contact info and your property's web page.
For example:
http://100501.Tenant.com
- Third, it offers an easy to remember site:
Tenant.com or YearlyRentals.com or OnTheSlopes.com for Brokers, Tenants and Landlords. - Fourth, it offers multiple broker represented properties a site for clearing broker and owner rentals.
- Fifth, we advertise this site on:
- TaxRecords.com
- OnTheBeach.com
- OnTheSlopes.com
- Yahoo.com directory
- Yahoo.com sponsor::
- direct mail postcards
- Sixth, it gives your property more exposure!
- Seventh, it gives properties' with home pages better exposure in search engines.
- Eighth, we automatically submit each listing to Google's Base System
- Last and most importantly, your listing on Tenant.com should help with search engine indexing.
- Presently this site is FREE!
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Do you charge a fee or commission on reservations or leases?
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- go to www.Tenant.com
- sign up by clicking the Sign-Up Free! link on left
- complete your infomation
- login
- List My Property for each listing.
Note! - When listing properties, you can 'attach' your properties to our affiliate sites ie. www.YearlyRentals.com, www.AtTheShore.com, ... You do NOT have to add the listing(s) to each site!
If you have many listings and have the ability to create an XML file of your listings, you can use our batch upload feature.
- These sites: interface with Tenant.com with properties that should appear in respective sites. Subscribers can click Increase My Exposure under Marketing Links and add these additional sites where appropriate to their listing.
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How is this site different than other property rental advertising sites?
- This site offers additional features of:
Back To Top- anyone (brokers, agents & owners) can post a property
- we allow multiple subcribers/owners/brokers management of multiple listed properties
- we offer exact weekly, yearly, daily, long and short term rates and availability
- we offer additional 'specialty sites' with segregated inventory by property offerings & locations (ie. YearlyRentals.com, OnTheSlopes.com, WeeklyRentals.com, AtTheShore.com, ...)
- we offer toll free technical support (888-546-4466)
- we offer toll free 24-7 voice information on your property (888-888-2202)
- Anyone can use this site - Owners, Brokers, Property Managers, Tenants, ...
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- This site has:
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- Long Term
- Short Term
- Weekly
- Vacation
- Yes! - After submitting your property, add (here) a rate file for the desired year (ie. 2005, 2006, ...). The site allows a full year of weekly rentals with a user defined check-in day (ie. Friday, Saturday, ...). You can set a:
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- display comment
- private comment
Example:www.Tenant.com/103198
103198.Tenant.com
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Daily availability calendars are also available on our site. Your weekly and short term rates overlay on each calendar.
Example:www.Tenant.com/103198
103198.Tenant.com
Can I use my Tenant.com listing link in a printed ad or web site?
- YES!
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- You can directly access your listing as:
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www.Tenant.com/######
Where ###### is your 6 digit listing number.
For Example:
100347.Tenant.com
www.Tenant.com/100347
Additionally, subscribers with ski or mountain rental listings can use our sister site: OnTheSlopes.com:
100413.OnTheSlopes.com
www.OnTheSlopes.com/100413
Back To TopYou can set contact person, phone numbers and email address in your contact information. Email addresses are not displayed to prevent spamming of your account.
Back To TopYes! - Each listing can have a separate contact phone number(s), fax, email and home page. Email addresses are not displayed to prevent spamming of your account.
Back To TopYour email address is not displayed on your listing to prevent unsolicited email (ie. spam). A email dialog box is displayed on your listing and this program will send tenant request directly to you. We do NOT monitor your request.
- Each listing keeps a record of each time your property is seen (ie. hit). You can see these hits by
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- Manage My Listings
- View Hits
- logging in
- Manage My Listings
- View Requests
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- If you forgot your password, click here.
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- You can add up to 4 pictures to each listing.
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Is there an additional charge to add pictures to my listing?
- There is NO cost to add pictures to your listing(s).
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- You can add (or delete) multiple images to your listing at the time your first enter your property or after your property is entered by:
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- Manage my Listings
- Click Add or Delete Images
- Pictures should be at least 400 pixels wide and should be .jpg format. Images greater than 400 pixels wide will be reduced. Images less than 400 pixels wide will be expanded to 400 pixels and might appear blurry.
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- If your pictures appear blurry, please try uploading 'bigger' (ie. greater than 400 pixels wide) images.
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Back To TopYou can change your voice comment under My Listings -> Edit. Make sure you spell out all words and use correct puncuation. Don't abbreviate!
- Yes! You can link to your homepage on:
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- your property info page.
Can I link to Tenant.com or my Tenant.com listing on my home page?
- Yes! - You can link to your listing of the Tenant.com sites. Reciprocal links are appreciated (but not required) as it helps us in palcement in search engines.
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- You can order a sign and advertise your listing number and our toll free number
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- Featured properties for specific areas (ie. zip codes) are done on a random basis but MUST have a picture to be a featured listing.
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- Top viewed properties are rated by the most unique-real-user views for yesterday and the past 30 days.
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Some suggestions to increase Top viewed exposure are:- well written and accurate property descriptions
- multiple pictures and links on your listing
- get your Tenant.com listing linked on other sites
- use your Tenant.com listing in conventional advertising
- Each listing is automatically submitted to base.google.com. Please note:
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- photos and links to each Tenant.com listing.
Each listing has a opt-out option for google submission!
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- have complete, thorough and accurate infomation.
- make sure your comments are detailed and accurate.
- don't abbreviate.
- use appropriate additional links. Examples:
- if available, link to your property's home page
- if available, link to your property's rate page
- if available, link to your property's additional pictures, info, tours, ...
- link to local events and sites
Back To TopFor subscribers with many listings, we offer a batch upload feature that allows you to add/update your listings using an XML file format.
A list of batch upload subscribers and their activity can be found here.
The XML document begins and ends with:<tenant> </tenant> and each listing starts and ends with a:<listing> </listing> tag. After each listing, start and end field tags are populated with user entries. Field tags are in the following examples.Requirements!
- XML feed listings
- must have a contact email
- must have a contact phone number
- must have a contact home page
- must have a direct link to the property's page on the subscriber's site
- valid XML format
- the id field must contain a unique alpha-numeric value for each of your listings. This is typically your listing/key number in your database that uniquely identifies your listing. New id's get added to our site and existing id's get updated on our site.
- field tags are all lowercase.
- reserved characters - these characters are represented as:
- & = & amp;
- < = & lt;
- > = & gt;
- / = & #47;
- ] = & #93;
- [ = & #91;
- " = & #34;
- ' = & #39;
- general & yearly
- weekly (plus all of general)
- short term (plus all of general)
Examples:-
Weekly Rental
Notes: - Most fields are self-explanatory. However:
- type - residential or commercial
- checkin is an offset for the checkin day (ie. 0=Saturday, 1=Sunday, -1=Friday, -2=Thursday, 2=Monday, 3=Wednesday)
- rate## is weeks 1 through 53 rates and descript## is descriptions 1 through 53. Our program assumes the first Saturday of the year for first date
- year - year for the rates. ie. 2006, 2007, ...
- affiliates - comma separated list of Tenant.com affiliate sites:
- at - AtTheShore.com
- wr - WeeklyRentals.com
- os - OnTheSlopes.com
- leasetype - comma separated list of lease terms:
- da - Daily
- we - Weekly
- wn - Weekends
- mv - Monthly Vacation
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Short Term Rental
(100505.Tenant.com)
Notes: - Same fields like above are self-explanatory. However:
- id tag is a number ie. 1 through #. In this case 6. The id tag uniquely identifies that item. On updates we check for changes using this id. On subsequent uploads if id (say '1') is not in the batch, it will be deleted. On subsequent uploads if there is a new id (say '7'), a new short term rate will be added. Same id's that are subsequently uploaded, are checked for changes and if any are merged ...
- active - 1 is active, 0 is NOT active
- displayoncalendar - 1 is display rates on a yearly calendar, 0 is DO NOT ..
- priority is optional (0-9) for sorting. Sorts ascending order.
Calendars - Daily Rental Calendars are also available for update via the availabilitychart tag and these tags:
- period1 is a bitmap of the first 183 days of the year
- period2 is a bitmap of the second 183 days of the year
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Yearly Rental
Notes: - Most fields are self-explanatory. However:
- affiliates - comma separated list of Tenant.com affiliate sites:
- at - AtTheShore.com
- yr - YearlyRentals.com
- os - OnTheSlopes.com
- subtype - suggested list of property types:
- Apartment, Low Rise
- Apartment, Mid Rise
- Apartment, High Rise
- Brownstone
- Condo
- Co-op
- Cottage
- Duplex
- Loft
- Side-By-Side
- Studio
- Single Family
- Open Space
- Town Home
- Villa
- leasetype - comma separated list of lease terms:
- mo - Monthly
- yr - Yearly
- st - Short Term
- lt - Long Term
- 1y - 1 Year
- 2y - 2 Year
- 3y - 3 Year
- 5y - 5 Year
- affiliates - comma separated list of Tenant.com affiliate sites:
- You can contact us here.
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- This site uses many readily available third party software vendors:
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- Tenant.com makes no representations of the accuracy of any of the classifieds ads on the site.
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