RentLinx: Making Money Off of Free

Hello Bud, I think you have a very interesting website idea. It is beneficial to both landlords and renters. Landlords only have to worry about dealing with one website to update their availability, instead of having to contact multiple websites. I also think that since landlords only have to update one website, they are more likely to have their units listed on more websites. This allows the landlords to reach more people. And renters benefit from this because it is easier to find out what is available in an area. I know that before I moved away to attend college, I had to find an apartment to live in. And since I was moving an hour away the only way for me to find an apartment, was to search on-line. Searching for low cost apartments was harder than I expected. But with website like RentLinx, this makes it easier for renters to find the apartment they are looking for. In your interview you mentioned that medium to large landlords use your services. I was just wondering if this was your intended target market, or if this is just who you noticed was using your services the most. Some other features that I think make your company unique is how much of companies business is actually done for free, and yet your company can run on low costs. I think this shows other companies the benefit to running your business on-line, it allows you to keep cost down. I wouldn’t have thought that a business could have most of their business be free, and still be profitable. But I guess that just goes to show you that if your product or service is good enough, people will be willing to pay for it. Thank you Bud for your interview, it was very informal. Autumn Darr.