Moving to a new apartment, while still challenging, is not nearly as difficult as it used to be. Sure, youve got to pack and clean and move all of your stuff, but in todays market, with the advent of the online rental community, locating, securing and moving into a new apartment can be a pleasant transition.
This is due to the numerous Web sites that are dedicated to apartment living and apartment sourcing. Search online for an apartment in, say, Atlanta, and pages and pages of information is at your fingertips. The trouble with all of this information is wading through it. It is time consuming and often difficult to recognize the valuable content from content that is not worth your time. Some sites are dedicated to this task. One of the most popular, Apartment Therapy, celebrates apartment culture, highlighting the struggles and rewards of fashioning a limited space into your ideal home. The sites mantra is doing less with more.
Doing less with more is a popular mantra these days. The stumbling economy, high foreclosure rate and significant job losses have made people timid and uncertain about their homes and their futures. This is why apartment sites have grown into a significant resource for people who are looking to change cities and prospects: they provide important, local information, information that can be accessed and digested so that a person who is considering a move is more informed.
Even large companies, with years of experience, are using contributions from outside resources. Doing less with more cultivates an online community and empowers people. It establishes trust between clients and companies, and provides more information in one location, allowing users to go back, again and again, for any of their moving concerns. Apartment Finder, one of the Webs largest listing sites, gives users countless pages of apartment listings and maps, organized by locations, and narrows a renters search by only looking for places that meet certain criteria. If a person is looking for an apartment near a college for less than $800 a month, Apartment Finder is not going to steer them towards a military base, where rents are high and public transportation is nominal.
Another advantage of searching for an apartment online is the cross current of information; doing less with more also means companies are often willing to share their information and services with other companies, forming an alliance that helps both parties to grow and gives users an invaluable experience. Taking this approach into account, Apartment Finder is now offering a new tool that can help other realtors and rental sites. The tool, actually called a Widget, can be downloaded and is free. Say you are a small rental service company. If you have a core group of clients, located in a centralized location, this Widget would help your clients search for more listings outside of your niche location. All you have to do is download the Widget. You can customize it so it fits and complements your Web sites look and size. The Widget appears as a small addition on your sites main page. Users can click on the Widget and search all of Apartment Finders property. This gives your smaller site a valuable addition. It allows your dedicated clients to search all of their apartment needs. And they do it by staying loyal to your site. You have given them an opportunity to do more with less.
