Monday, November 13, 2006

easyrentcheck.com site news

We at www.easyrentcheck.com are pleased to announce that we've contracted D.A. Wyatt, the creator of http://www.buckeye-classifieds.com, to make some changes and fix some of the quirks at our site.

We had been having a slight problem with our Search by ID feature in that our drop-down menu refused to put listing IDs in the correct numerical order, but thanks to Ms. Wyatt, it's working fine now.

Also, we now have separate Private Policy, Terms of Service and Equal Housing Opportunity pages on our website. Our web designer had previously put these items all on one page, but now they are more easily accessible to our site visitors.

But the most exciting changes are yet to come!

We've long been dissatisfied with the www.easyrentcheck.com sign-up process, which requires property owners with vacant rentals to pay for their listing space first and then create their User ID account second. This has always seemed a bit backwards to us, and we've asked Ms. Wyatt if she can re-write the process so that users will create their User ID account before being asked for any money. The new sign-up process idea seems much more ethical and it should be more comfortable for new users at our site. It will also allow property owners to create an account even if they do not currently have a rental vacancy to advertise; later, when a vacancy needs to be listed, they will easily be able to log in under their username and purchase a listing credit.

Additionally, we at www.easyrentcheck.com have been dissatisfied with our site's inability to allow users to renew their listings. Currently, if you as a property owner list your vacant rental unit for 30 days but then decide, as your 30 days are about to expire, that you'd like to extend your listing to 60 days, the database requires you to purchase an additional 30-day listing and re-enter all your property's information. We realize this is terribly inconvenient, and we've asked Ms. Wyatt to explore options for allowing users to self-renew or extend a listing beyond its initial listing period. We will keep you posted if it looks like this will be possible. In the meantime, if you'd like to extend your property's listing, please use the Contact Us link on our site and let us know. We will manually extend your listing at no cost to you! Make sure to let us know, though, before the listing expires. Once Day 31 hits on your 30-day listing, the information will have already been deleted from our system.

Last, we want to apologize to each of our users who have created a Notify Me alert at our site. It seems we have a bit of quirk with it; users are receiving multiple Notify Me e-mails when in fact they should only receive one each time a new rental listing matches their search preferences. It is never our intention at www.easyrentcheck.com to spam a user's e-mail account! We cannot apologize enough for this inconvenience, and rest assured that we are working on the problem.

Sincere thanks to our users for their patience as we upgrade www.easyrentcheck.com, Northwest Ohio's locally owned rental search site.

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