New Picture Upload Page and Weekend Updates

We made some modifications to our picture upload page. We are now limiting the size of images to 200K as well as checking for valid file types. We also added a loading indicator and are working on having this information relay the exact progress on your upload as well.

We are currently testing an automatic picture resizer that should solve 99% off all problems when uploading pictures to our site. Almost all problems when uploading forms is due to large file size. This causes the connection to time out on most uploads of files over 500K.

This weekend we are releasing a minor update but will have a drastic change on your external advertising. We are adding a new entery item for properties called 'search cities'. You can use this field to input cities that are close to your property.

On most of our external marketing we include these cities but this is system generated and not always as accurate as we would like. Some regional areas simply have too many cities located within and cause our ads to get flagged or frustrations with users searching for properties.

This new input will be on the property details section of the site and expect to see this live by this Sunday, November 2nd, 2008.

Property Views Now Live

You are now able to see the amount of times your property has been viewed on our websites. We have been tracking views for the past few weeks while we have been testing this feature.

Your individual property views can be found on the control panel after you log in. This is right after the marketing link. Currently this shows the current views from today, click this link to get even more detailed information.

Currently your views are combined into one number we are working on breaking this number into even more meaningful information. Data such as what listing type and website the view came from, also how the user found your property, such as via a feature, search, advanced search or other location on our sites.

OOdle Rental Feeds Up and Running

Since we stopped working with a third party to provide our feeds we have been implementing these ourselves. On each site/marketing location we have a feed we will have three core feeds. Rental, Rent to Own, and Owner Financing.

Our latest feed to go live is our RENT OODLE.com Feed. You can view this feed at
OODLE Feed.

OODLE is a great service, and they have many places they feed to as well, such as Walmart.com. OODLE is actually the back end technology for the Walmart Classifieds.

We plan to launch the Rent to Own and Owner Financing Feeds later this week.

It should be noted for currently active properties you wont see this feed listed on your Property Marketing View but don't worry your property will be included in the feed. Any property activated after October 7th, 2008 will be able to see this feed on the property marketing view page.

Also we are not able to provide you a link directly to your property on the feed, we are only able to provide you a link to the overall feed.