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7/20/2009 12:30:14 PM
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TIPS ON BEING A GOOD TENANT.
Randall_Agee
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How To Be A Good Tenant by Andrea Hermitt
Being a good tenant has many benefits. It makes your landlord want to keep you around, which means your lease renewals will not come with large rent increases. Your landlord may honor your requests faster. Being a good tenant can also increase your credit score and give you someone to contact when you need a good credit reference. Here are some tips for being a good tenant.
Step 1 Pay your rent on time. This means pay it on or before the first of every month. Most states allow you to pay the rent by the fifth of the month, but mortgages are due on the first. If you save your landlord from four to five days of phone calls from their lender, they will appreciate you.
Step 2 Keep your home and yard clean. Having excess dirt in a home will hasten wear and tear on the unit. Your hard floors will become scuffed. Your carpets will need to be replaced, costing your landlord more money.
Step 3 Let your landlord know when you need repairs. While you may think that bothering your landlord will make him or her displeased with you, never bothering them at all will worry them terribly. A tenant who ignores the need for repairs during their tenancy will cost their landlord more money in the end.
Step 4 Follow the rules of your lease. Do not take in pets without permission, especially if this is spelled out on your lease. Do not move extra people into the home without permission. Do not make unauthorized alterations to the apartment.
Step 5 Give notice when it is time to move on. Leaving your apartment or rental house on good terms is also very important to your relationship with your landlord. You never know when you will want to rent from them again or when you will want to use them as a credit reference.
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5/27/2009 5:52:59 AM
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This is great!!
Randall_Agee
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We are very humbled by the praise. We are working very hard to make it a notch above anything else that is out there, not only locally but nationally. So please stay with us, because we will be releasing new items weekly, to make "shopping for a home" just that much better.
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5/26/2009 6:21:36 PM
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This is great!!
Tammey
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I can't believe there is a website for renters!! It has made home shopping so easy. We are in the process of renting a home that we found on here. The process has been smooth and is happening so fast.
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edited by Tammey on 5/26/2009
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5/26/2009 12:56:29 PM
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PREMIER ONLINE RENTAL COMMUNITY TO LAUNCH MAY 18
Randall_Agee
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PREMIER ONLINE RENTAL COMMUNITY TO LAUNCH MAY 18
NORMAN – When premier online rental community www.rentOK.com launches later this month, renting a home in Oklahoma will be easier and more efficient than ever before.
What makes Norman-based www.rentOK.com special is that it provides a central online location for people on both sides of a rental transaction, enabling them to get all the information they need when they need it.
“RentOK.com makes it easy for real estate professionals and investors to market and manage rental properties and for tenants to find the properties that best meet their needs,” said Randall Agee, one of three partners in the innovative venture.
Tenants can apply to rental properties, save property searches and receive e-mail alerts that match their specific search criteria, post free classified ads, find roommates, communicate with landlords through a built-in message system and access vendor discounts.
One feature sure to please iPhone users is a free application that accesses data and photos on targeted properties with a few taps of the touch screen.
“If you’re driving around a neighborhood in which you want to find available rental properties, your iPhone’s GPS will pinpoint your location and search for homes available in that area,” Agee explained. “The contact information for the landlord or property manager is there as well, so you can just touch on the phone number or e-mail address to contact them directly.”
Through www.RentOK.com, those landlords and property managers can accept rental applications, view the activity on their listings, access rental and occupancy statistics by area or property type, receive potential tenant contacts and communicate directly with tenants once they’re in the system.
Tenants can create a rentOK.com account at no cost. For landlords, the cost is $10 for each basic listing and $35 for each featured listing, which is more prominently displayed on the site.
Features planned for rollout through the summer include:
- paying and collecting rent online
- Web site templates for landlords and property managers who don’t already have their own sites
- providing data feeds that seamlessly duplicate and update property information uploaded onto www.rentOK.com to the landlord’s Web site as well
- investment properties for sale
- and an online auction for investment properties.
“RentOK.com is a great example of Web 2.0, the so-called second generation of Web development and design that facilitates communication, secure information sharing and collaboration,” Agee said. “We don’t think there’s anything else like it in the online real estate rental community.”
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5/23/2009 6:47:20 AM
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RentOK.com in the Journal Record!
Randall_Agee
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Real estate Web sites use smart-phone technology
May 14, 2009
NORMAN – A group of Norman businessmen will launch a Web-based business this month that will allow users to peruse residential rentals.
RentOK.com is the latest Oklahoma real estate business to post its listings online and on Internet-equipped handheld phones.
The company will compete with national sites like Rent.com and Rentals.com that also allow landlords to reach potential tenants online.
Randall Agee, a partner in RentOK, has been a Web designer and programmer for the University of Oklahoma Foundation since 2003. He now works for the foundation part time as a consultant and is working to launch the real estate site and a free search tool from Apple Inc.’s App Store for the iPhone.
Agee plans to offer the service statewide from his Norman office.
“There wasn’t a good local player for this type of Web site,” he said. “I decided to build a Web site for strictly rental properties.”
The service is free for people searching for a property. Landlords and owners can post their properties for $10 per month for a basic listing and $35 per month for a more prominently displayed featured listing.
“We’ll market the premium properties a little bit more,” Agee said. “We’ll stick them on craigslist and other networking Web sites.”
Rent.com, an eBay company, offers free listings and landlords are charged $15 for every new renter who contacts them. Rentals.com offers listings from $49 to $99 for 30 days.
RentOK will also generate income by offering ZIP code-specific advertising. Ads are $20 per month and each ZIP code will be limited to 10 ads.
But Agee is banking on people using their iPhones. With the iPhone’s Global Positioning System, users can enter their location and nearby properties listed with RentOK will appear.
In February, Tulsa-based Coldwell Banker Select launched a service that provides property information on homes for sale with MLS search capability from smart phones. Potential homebuyers can drive around Oklahoma City or Tulsa and use the CB site to view descriptions and photos of homes on the market.
Since its launch, Bryan Sheppard, chief operating officer of the CB office, said the Oklahoma City site is generating about 300 individual property views each day.
“This is fantastic for us just having launched it,” Sheppard said.
The CB site allows people to view every available listing in the MLS and then links them back to a CB agent.
Sheppard said he has received positive feedback when people find they can drive around and view any home that is for sale on their handheld device.
“Once somebody tries it, they’re hooked,” he said.
As smart phones become more widely used, Sheppard said more homebuyers will use them as a tool.
Andy Morgan, spokesman for AT&T Oklahoma, said the company’s smart-phone business, which includes the iPhone, has doubled in the past year.
“Almost a third of all phones we sell are smart-phone devices,” Morgan said.
Agee said when the site is launched he expects to have about 150 properties featured. As the site develops he will add features for apartment complexes and individual rooms that people have for lease.
“We’ll put anything on there that’s rentable,” Agee said.
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5/17/2009 7:56:11 AM
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Please leave us some feedback. We want to know!
Randall_Agee
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What you think about the site. We know that there are a lot of pages that say coming soon, we are working hard to fill all of those pages. Please be patient with us...
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5/17/2009 4:59:53 AM
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Welcome to RentOK.com!
Randall_Agee
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We have finally launched our Oklahoma rental property MLS website. As you can see we have many features yet to be launched. We will be working very hard over the next year in order to release as many features as possible. We have so many ideas and are very excited to get to share them with you.
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2/22/2009 6:51:55 AM
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Ruby Grant Park on the West side of Norman?
Randall_Agee
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Does anyone know what is the status of this park? I hear it is supposed to be full of children's play areas and such.
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