This business idea helps you match pet friendly landlords with pet owners looking for a place to rent.
Are you an animal lover with pets that you love and consider a member of the family?
Then you likely know how difficult it can be to locate an apartment, condominium or house to rent or lease, that will allow pets.
These pet friendly environments can be rare, and some pet owners virtually give up on making a move at all because it takes so much work for them to find a suitable place!
This is where you will come in!
You can
build a website
that lists current apartments, condominiums, and houses available to rent or lease that allow pets.
This would be a great way to tap into the growing internet trend of local community based websites .
To start your directory, you would need to familiarize yourself with the many properties in your area that allow pets.
You could charge about $50 - $60 from apartment seekers for 90-day access to the listings.
Including digital photos of the properties and surrounding areas would be a big bonus for these pet owners.
You may even want to include information on local dog walking paths or pet friendly parks in the area. This will let them get a feel for the area and make it even more appealing.
If possible, it would be a good idea to include information on the kind of deposit that will be required to acquire the dwelling.
While some residences require just a first and last month's rent, many pet friendly rental properties also require an additional deposit or written agreement of some sort to ensure that the family pet will not damage the residence.
Some require larger deposits than others will. This would be another helpful piece of information to your clients when choosing their next dwelling.
You may want to also include helpful tips for people moving with pets as well!
The more information you can provide them, the better!
You should organize your website with searchable databases by location (street, neighborhood, state, or city) and types of pets allowed.
You would likely also want to make your site searchable by square footage available and number of bedrooms and bathrooms that each residence has.
No one wants to scroll through hundreds of listings for hours just looking for one type of location. After all, your website will be taking the work out of searching for hours, so make the search faster and easier for them!
You will definitely benefit your business by investing the time and energy needed to network with local real estate agents and offices.
These kinds of contacts can be an invaluable resource for getting the heads up on a property before it is widely known about, or advertised to the public.
Usually a real estate agency or agent should be willing to give you the ‘heads-up’ on such properties if you agree to promote their services, or if you make some other mutually beneficial agreement.
Remember that people also rent properties for summer and winter vacations. Be sure to include these sorts of vacation properties in your database as well, especially since these can be rented over-and-over and could become a permanent listing for your site.
After a customer has used your site, invite customer comments on both improving the site, and more importantly, what their renting experience for their property was like.
Also, be sure to ask for suggestions of pet friendly parks and businesses in their chosen neighborhood that they have visited and really liked.
This is the kind of inside information that can really help enrich the scope of details you are able to offer to later visitors to your site!
Creating and maintaining such a directory can be fun and rewarding home based online business.
And with this business idea you get all the perks and flexibility of getting to work from home doing something you enjoy.
While some residences require just a first and last month's rent, many pet friendly rental properties also require an additional deposit or written agreement of some sort to ensure that the family pet will not damage the residence. 