Although there are a number of startups that are playing in the room, shading YouGotListings interesting. The idea for the launch was founded several years ago by engineers Gordon Chen Li and John as a means of real estate agents listings with a platform of management and owners an easy way to make their properties for brokers and consumers to offer the market. But the startup founders quickly learned that the housing market is a difficult area to break into without the knowledge of insiders.
According to Chen and Li spent a year as a broker in Boston, they could understand how the system works and finally provide an application that meets the needs of brokers and owners in the rental industry would be (to appear, they were so Good rental apartments that their former employers are still trying again as a broker in Boston).
The software of the founders ended up making this research is YouGotListings. SaaS allows owners to have distributed a list of short stories in real time for the broker chose to write. If the owner earlier by fax or e-mail of new properties directly to a broker, a process time can be especially if an owner is managing a number of properties.
YouGotListings and is starting the application for realtors, where they can find a complete list of publishing these offers to consumers, then perform credit checks are to print rental applications and much more. YouGotListings is free for distribution of flyers and costs between $ 50 per month for a single user to $ 100 per month for unlimited users.
The software also includes tools for rental ads to sites like Trulia union general list, Hotpads, Craigslist and others. And brokers can use to power YouGotListings consumer facing websites with a list of available apartments. In the software, owners and brokers to help other message properties and commissioning recently, a broker for Android announcements on the fly "(the iPhone will be available in the coming days). Another feature useful is the ability to create and print itineraries for clients with information on rental housing can be seen in a tour.
Although YouGotListings is currently in Boston and Chicago markets concentrates (Chicago YouGotListings a market share of ten percent), and plans to move across Florida and San Francisco markets. Chen says that each city is different in terms of rent, as found, and the launch is focused on building relationships in each city, with both brokers and owners as a way to use them software development. The model was in Boston and worked YouGotListings said that already 75% of the market in the city.
juice rent one of the main competitors is YouGotListings ", which just raised $ 6,200,000 in financing and acquisition of a competitor, Kahoots. YouGotListings Startfund bootstrap and only raised $ 150,000 online. Chen says that while most of the functionality between the two platforms are similar, he believes that Li and his experience as a broker helped them "know the business." "We speak the language and realtor know their weaknesses, "said Chen. "Currently, our biggest goal is not to expand too quickly, but the best support for dealers and help make our customers happy."
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