Find Comparable Rents With Rentometer

by Joshua Dorkin on October 9, 2006

  

I got an email this weekend about a great little tool that I wanted to share with everyone. Rentometer

Just enter a property address, number of units in the building, and the current monthly rent, and Rentometer will show you where your price stands compared to others in the area. In addition, this Google mashup also shows comparable properties in the area on everyone’s favorite, Google maps.

This is a great tool for any landlord to have in their arsenal.

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1 Derek October 9, 2006 at 3:32 pm

Great idea. Thanks for sharing that link. Good luck with the wedding and if I can help in any way, don’t hesitate to ask.

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2 Joshua Dorkin October 9, 2006 at 3:57 pm

Hey Derek. Thanks. I may take you up on your offer.

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3 Teresa Boardman October 9, 2006 at 6:45 pm

Nice, at last a use for the internet. :) I’ll have to see if it works here in fly over land. You getting Married? if so congrats!

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4 NLG October 10, 2006 at 6:12 am

This looks like a really awesome website… but… i have one complaint. Why can’t the creators of these sites enable Canadian addresses?

I’d love something like this so I could compare rents in my area and make sure my rental properties are competetively priced! Please, please open this up to Canada in the near future…

NG

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5 Joshua Dorkin October 10, 2006 at 8:19 am

Thanks Teresa! Wedding is this weekend . . .
NLG – It would be nice if they could tackle Canada as well. Maybe your words will echo with the creators of this tool!

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6 Pete October 10, 2006 at 1:03 pm

Hey, that was fun! It came up with several examples in the areas I checked out. Maybe I’ll start using that to help analyze different parts of the city. Quick and easy, but I did notice it may not be completely accurate.

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7 Joshua Dorkin October 10, 2006 at 2:41 pm

It is definately a great little tool. I cannot completely vouch for the accuracy, but from what I saw it was fairly close.

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8 Allison October 10, 2006 at 6:07 pm

Thanks Joshua. You rock!
We have many more free tools planned for release soon at both the rentometer and iiProperty. We will definitely open the rentometer up in Canada. We are listening ; ) thanks to everyone for the input…positive or otherwise -we really appreciate it.

Congratulations on your wedding! Married life is bliss!

Allison
Team iiProperty

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9 Joshua Dorkin October 11, 2006 at 7:22 am

Thanks Allison! It is wonderful that you’re listening to your consumer. Adding the Canadian market should be beneficial to you. Keep us posted with any new tools/updates.

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10 NLG October 11, 2006 at 7:43 am

Allison, your iiProperty software looks great too. I like the fact that you are out here engaging in the blog world, thanks for listening.

NLG

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11 Ophelia117 October 31, 2006 at 6:57 am

Nice tool! Thanks for sharing.

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12 Mr. Lamas November 30, 2006 at 9:35 am

Hello everyone, I know I’m looking at a relatively old blog but I was wondering what the website was for this tool. Thanks a mil.

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13 Joshua Dorkin November 30, 2006 at 10:22 am

Mr. Lamas,
The link is on the post: rentometer.com

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14 Glenn Bennett December 7, 2007 at 5:41 pm

Great tool. Should shave hours off searches for affordable housing. Thanks for sharing.

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15 Sarah Alstring January 10, 2008 at 4:30 pm

That is a fantastic addition to Google maps, I wonder whether it can be used in the UK also?

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16 Anonymous August 5, 2008 at 9:55 am

This is some really great information and this seems like a great tool. I will have to try it out.

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17 Financing Owner November 2, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Thanks. I may take you up on your offer. and really it is a great information.

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18 Jeff December 6, 2008 at 1:41 pm

What a great tool and great to see it’s available in Canada too!

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19 Mike Jones August 25, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Great Post,

I wonder if there is any way to use this tool to predict future rents or to get info about how the rates are changing in the neighborhood. It would be useful to know what the rates are compared to recent months.

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