Men Tick Me Off, OMG…!

“Men tick me off, OMG…!” Certainly some, if not all the women out there, have said that to themselves or their friends.

A new free microblogging website Ticked.me is launching this month, which lets users express and share their flurries on almost everything about men or women that drive them crazy.

Similar sites such as VentNation lets users vent on the things, almost everything, that bother them. You can say that even Twitter, Yammer, etc., also let users express themselves in the same way, except these sites tend to focus more on the general stuff, other than certain specific issue, and because of so many categories, these sites tend to bury a lot of the users posted updates.

However, Ticked.me exclusively lets users to chant about their inner thoughts on the things about men or women that make them just want to scream or pull their hair off.

Historically, similar sites have not been able to gain much traction, but with the current wave of social network tools, there might be a space for these kinds of web sites.

Only time will tell how Ticked.me or other similar sites may turn out. But it is suffice to say that it’s fun to read what or how women (or men) feel about each other, in general. After all, it may help someone learn more on how to deal with his or her relationship.

Source: Simon Kapenda at http://princesimon.wordpress.com

Happy New Year, It’s 2009

Happy new year, everyone.

We are happy to have each and everyone of you, here at RentersQ. We will soon roll out our newly and improved RentersQ, soon. It’ll be filled with lots of cool features and tools to help make your rental experience, anywhere, a more efficient and seemlessly simple.

Please check back as often, and we welcome your feedback. Happy new year and stay tuned.

Nominate RentersQ for the Crunchies 2008

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Newly and Improved RentersQ, Coming Soon!

In the last few months, we’ve been busy, redesigning RentersQ, and later on this year, we plan to unveil the newly redesigned and improved RentersQ with more cool features and tools designed to make your rental experience more efficient and seamless simple.

We’ve added new features and tools such as RentersQ Valuation, a new and patent pending tool, designed to provide free rental market rate valuation, combined with the RentersQ proprietary residential community rating technology, for the millions of apartments and houses for rent in most areas around the world in order to enable you to easily learn more about each specific community and its rental market rate at the point of your rental housing search anytime, anywhere.

We’ve taken all your feedback, which we greatly appreciate, and combine it with our core technology to improve RentersQ. In doing so, we hope and plan to make RentersQ the place for you to check before you sign a lease agreement to rent anywhere in the world at any anytime.

We value and appreciate your comment and feedback. Please stay tuned for our newly redesigned RentersQ.

Regards,
Jeff Tate, General Manager, RentersQ, LLC.

TechColumbus TopCAT Innovation Reception

The TopCAT Winners and Finalists came together last night, Wednesday, May 28th, at the lobby of the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease in Columbus, Ohio, for a great reception and networking.

The reception was great, the hors d’ oeuvres, wine, beer, soft drinks and valet parking were sparklingly superb and tastefully delicious, all freely provided by the good folks at Vorys and TechColumbus.

Thanks guys for a great event!

Surprise, RentersQ is One Year Old!

RentersQ celebrated its one year anniversary on May 1st with an unexpected high growth of 310 registered users from around the world without advertising, with an average of 7,000 new visitors a day.

Its proprietary web-based rental history reporting platform is slowly but surely changing the residential rental community’s experience, around the world.

Keep watching, some cool stuff are happening here real soon.

Happy Birthday RentersQ!

Tip-Mart Makes the List of Finalists for the TechColumbus 2007 TopCAT Innovation Awards

We’re moreover excitedly excitingly excited to announce that Tip-Mart, Inc., the developer of RentersQ (www.rentersq.com) and soon to be launched Gatepedia (www.gatepedia.com), has made the list of finalists for the TechColumbus 2007 TopCAT Innovation Awards in the category of Outstanding Startup Business.

TechColumbus (www.techcolumbus.org) accelerates the growth of the innovation economy by providing vital resources and assistance to people and enterprises that depend on technology to achieve their business goals.

The annual TopCat Innovation Awards (www.topcatawards.org) is the most prestigious technology event in Ohio, which recognizes outstanding achievements in technology leadership. From hundreds of entries, TopCat Awards will be given to 13 outstanding leaders and teams who exemplify the best in technology leadership and innovation.

Just for having been nominated for this category for the TechColumbus 2007 TopCat Innovation Awards and now that we’ve made the list of the finalist is even better. And we hope that we win, but even if we don’t win, we’re just humbly honored for being part of these great events.

It truly helps thrust our passion for staying up late, developing cool and unmatched technological advance web-based tools for the masses.

Thanks in-part to our developing partners at Dhaka-bd.com (www.dhaka-bd.com) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Please stay tuned for Gatepedia, coming soon.

Tip-Mart Nominated for the 2007 TopCAT Innovation Awards

We’re excited to announce that Tip-Mart, the developer and parent company for RentersQ (www.rentersq.com) has been nominated for the TechColumbus 2007 TopCAT Innovation Awards in the category of Outstanding Startup Business.

TechColumbus (www.techcolumbus.org) accelerates the growth of the innovation economy by providing vital resources and assistance to people and enterprises that depend on technology to achieve their business goals.

The annual TopCat Innovation Awards (www.topcatawards.org) is the most prestigious technology event in Ohio, which recognizes outstanding achievements in technology leadership. From hundreds of entries, TopCat Awards will be given to 13 outstanding leaders and teams who exemplify the best in technology leadership and innovation.

We at Tip-Mart are humbly honored and it’s a privilege to have been nominated and be part of this event. We have worked really hard developing RentersQ, our flagship innovation, and are even grateful to launch our third and most anticipated innovative Gatepedia (www.gatepedia.com), and are looking forward to developing more unique and disruptive technology tools that add efficiency to the industry.

Having been nominated for this category for the TechColumbus 2007 TopCat Innovation Awards is an honor and a privilege that help fuel our passion to staying up late, developing cool and unmatched technological advance web-based tools for the masses.

Please stay tuned for Gatepedia, coming in October 2007.

RentersQ Online Address Book and Calendar

When you log into the current RentersQ My Account site, you experience a rich collection of cool features and tools designed for anyone, both the tenants and landlords and property owners and managers.

There’re certain features such as the Profile, Blog, Forum and Bulletin pages that we’re yet to upload and we’re going to do this real soon, however, here at RentersQ, we’re constantly trying to add more useful tools that add great value for our users. Some of the cool features and tools that we’re currently working on are; the RentersQ Online Address Book and Calendar.

Since the RentersQ Record Database aims to maintain the largest database of all the tenants and landlords in the world, we’ve decided to make it even easier for our users to freely organize their contact information in order to better stay in touch with their friends, family members and business associates.

Because each RentersQ Record reflects precise and accurate contact information for each user in real-time, the RentersQ Online Address Book will aim to make it even easier for our users to always be able to instantly have access to correct and precise contact information for their friends, family members and business associates as reflected in each user’s RentersQ Record and RentersQ Profile.

RentersQ strongly adheres to strict privacy policies, thus users will be able to discretionary select and add each user whomever they want to be able to see and have access to their contact information in the RentersQ Online Address Book.

RentersQ users will be able to easily and selectively share and exchange their online address book and calendar only with users in their network.

We’re developing the RentersQ Online Address Book to integrate with the Outlook/Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mac OS X’s Address Book, and support other available formats.

We’re looking forward to the debuting of the RentersQ Online Address Book sometimes in the middle of 2008.

Stay tuned…!

Tenants from Hell, Slum Landlords, and Run Down Rental Houses

So, you’ve been working for years, you’ve saved up some money, and you’ve decided to invest it in a more secure market, the myth of unsinkable real estate investment, by buying certain residential properties, houses or an apartment complex, in order to generate some steady, passive income, so you think.

You spend additional money, let’s say $45,000, improving the property; you paint it, put in new carpets, new kitchen cabinets, washer and dryer, and everything else, hoping to entice your prospective tenants. So, you’ve bought some ads in your local newspapers, and little did you know, you’ve finally found someone who’s willing to sign your lease agreement.

Now that he or she has moved in, you don’t have to worry about fixing stuff inside the property, because everything was new and in super working condition when your tenant first moved in.

You’re now reaping the benefits, just as you’ve planned it. Your tenant pays the rent on time each month; so you have nothing to worry about. The money is good, right? Yeah, right. A few months later, the police is called for domestic disputes at your property, but no big deal, right? Right! A few more months, the neighbors complain about loud music from your property, but it’s okay, no biggie.

The time goes by real fast, sooner than you thought, the lease comes to an end, and it’s time for him or her to move out, and you go do the final walk through, inspecting the property. To your surprise, the house is a mess, it looks like a zoo, there’re holes in the walls, the carpet looks nasty and filthy, the new kitchen you had renovated is gone, the walls are red-and-brown from cigarette smoke, and everything in the house needs to be replaced.

Wow, what went wrong? He or she always looked clean, drives a nice car, and paid his or her rent on time. So, what went wrong? You’ve charged the fair market price value, let’s say $3,450 a month in rent, plus a deposit of one month’s rent, that’s $44,850 a year, and that’s good, right? Right!

After your tenant has moved out, you called up your contractor to give you an estimate of how much it will cost to fix up the property and get it ready for the next tenant. The quote your contractor brought you is in the amount of, let’s say $56,940, that’s how much it’s going to cost you to fix up the property, again, in order to make it ready for the next move-in.

But that’s $11,940 more than what you’ve initially put in, so did you make any money from your first year of rental property? Then, what went wrong? What is it that you did or didn’t do before signing the lease agreement? But you checked his or her credit report, and he or she had great FICO scores? Then why? But you’ve also checked his or her prior rental history with the former landlord?

Yes, you did, except, it was not as a detailed rental history report as it was supposed to be. RentersQ™ (http://www.rentersq.com) makes all that painless possible, so you know exactly whom you’re renting to, before you rent.

RentersQ provides the RentersQ Record, a patent pending web-based comprehensive and innovative rental history reports which may contain complete and personalized rental history, tenant screening, and prior rental report for every tenant from anywhere in the world.

The RentersQ Record is easy to use and the best of it all, it’s fast and free. It helps you get to know your tenants, any tenant, in great detail; it even warns you if the tenant smokes, makes excess and unwanted noise, reveals his or her housekeeping habits, personal characteristics and behavioral traits towards other tenants.

So, be smart, be well-informed, next time you rent to anyone anywhere, just run a RentersQ Record, get to know your next tenant better, before you rent, it’s easy, safe, free, and fast.

Property Owners and Managers

Property owners and managers, fill your vacancies faster, RentersQ offers free listings for all types of residential and commercial properties for rent, sale, lease, and foreclosures. No success or commission fees – it’s all free.

Landlord Ratings

How’s your former or current landlord? How long does it take for your former or current landlord to repair your maintenance requests?

RentersQ operates the RentersQ Rental Ratings and Research System, a free online rating service for the rental housing market that collects feedback and reviews from current or former tenants for their landlords and properties, worldwide.

Next time before you rent from any landlord, anywhere, first check with the RentersQ Ratings to instantly learn more about the advantages or disadvantages of renting from your next landlord and neighborhood. It’s easy, fast, and free.

RentersQ on the Web: http://www.rentersq.com.