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ForRent.com’s New Partnership Encourages Neighborhood Reviews

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“Consumers trust the unbiased opinion of other consumers,” said Brock MacLean, senior vice president of national sales and development [at ForRent.com]. “According to a September 2010 study from the Pew Research Center, nearly one-fourth of U.S. adults say they have posted comments or reviews online about the products or services they buy. ForRent.com has an exclusive partnership with RentWiki.com that allows us to incorporate user-generated content into our site. This creates another platform for renters to communicate with each other.”

More… via ForRent

Shelving System With Curved Plywood Frames and Digital Print Covers

Cocoon is a shelving system designed by Paola Navone for Ideal Form Team. It characterized by curved plywood frame of shelves with wengè or white ribbed effect laminate finishes. They can come as with doors as without them. Besides their backs and doors can feature digital printings of rose, leafs, laces and other things. The doors feature steel handles while internal shelves are made of aluminum. These curved elements could be combined with simple floating shelves depending on your storage needs. Thanks to that you can easily create a composition that you like.

Very cool shelves to make your digs your own… you can never have enough storage.

IKEA 2010 Teen and Kids Room Design Ideas | DigsDigs

Setting Up Home: Stylish & Sophisticated First Homes

First homes – the concept can mean different things at different times in life: a small studio after leaving school, an apartment that was chosen with a partner after deciding to take the plunge and move in together or the place that finally gets you to take out a mortgage. All are auspicious move-in moments and exciting in their own way, so it’s always a treat when an Apartment Therapy reader shares their “first home” – here are five of our favorites:

more… via apartmenttherapy.com

Decorate Your Digs a la craigslist with Lauren

Whoo hoo, Lauren!  You go, girl.

Create your own super-rad apartment, craigslist style… and don’t forget to recycle your own trash for found treasures too.

What is Your Christmas Tree Style?

What is Your Christmas Tree Style?

via apartmenttherapy.com

12 Reasons Why Moving is a Good Thing

By Relocation.com

Living in a new place can really open your mind to new experiences – ranging from meeting new people to learning about a new area. This all begins with moving, when you leave your comfortable environment and start fresh in a new uncharted one. Moving isn’t all sunshine and roses though. It can elicit a lot of fear and apprehension – from fear of the unknown, to fears about finding and trusting moving companies with all of your prized possessions. All of these things, no matter how scary they may seem, are actually good things and can be positive steps to a new and exciting life.

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Whether moving to a new location is your decision or not, it is your decision how to embrace it. Here are 12 reasons why relocating can be a positive experience:

1. Having to learn your way around a new place helps you become more resourceful. Once presented in a new environment you will be forced to live outside of your comfort zone. This can mean something as simple as having to learn where the post office is or getting to know your new neighborhood by taking a walking tour of your new community.

2. Living in a new place is a great way to expand your horizons, both geographically and mentally. Relocating builds confidence, humor and an appreciation for adventure. You may find yourself living near a park and find yourself running in your new town or living in a city and finding a new hobby or club to join. Whatever it is, living in a new area can expand your mind and allow you to try something new that you may never have attempted before.

3. You can reinvent yourself. If you live in the town where you grew up, your childhood friends and family will see you the same way at age 35 as they did at 15. A new location can mean a new you. When relocating, you can start fresh by trying new hobbies or even switching careers.

4. It’s the perfect time for self-improvement. Relocating is an excellent opportunity to break bad habits. Living in a new and fresh environment often forces you to think and live in different ways; this may mean breaking old habits like excessive television watching, smoking and/or drinking.

5. You’ll meet new people and make new friends. Moving is a great opportunity to expand your social network and meet new people. As the old adage goes, “Make new friends, but keep the old.” It is important to stay connected to your old friends, but meeting new people is a great way to spend time with people who share your interests, as well as finding someone who can help you acclimate to your new town. Online resources and local community boards are great ways to make new friends.

6. Moving will keep your brain fresh. When you know a place inside out, your brain can go on autopilot. Moving to a new place forces your brain to learn new things and be resourceful.

7. You’ll experience a new culture. Whether moving from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the Midwest to the Southwest, or from New England to England, you will find that each geographical location has its own culture, traditions and food. What a wonderful way to experience something new.

8. You may appreciate more. What are you taking for granted where you’re currently living? After living in Japan, I really appreciated Western style toilets, non-smoking restaurants, and being able to find good wine easily. There are some luxuries that you don’t realize you have until you leave where you are from.

9. You’ll learn more about yourself. It is easy to get comfortable with our surroundings – never really thinking about the streets we walk down or second-guessing our coffee choices. This also applies to how we react in our day-to-day life. When moving, you’ll learn more about how to be independent or acquire new skills – whatever it is, getting outside of your comfort zone is always good for personal growth.

10. You’ll test your organization skills. Let’s face it; moving means getting organized. There is no better way to test your skills by having to stay on top of movers, packing, obtaining boxes and much more.

11. You’ll get rid of junk. Over the years, whether we realize it or not, we collect junk – ranging from the useful to items that should be trashed. Moving is great time to decide if they should be tossed, donated or move on with you. You may find that you have a lot of items that you don’t need, so lightening your load now can help you move on to your new town with a clean slate (not to mention fewer boxes).

12. You can always leave! You have nothing to lose. But if you don’t go, you may always wonder, “What if?”

Find An Apartment

Finding an apartment is going to be time consuming, exciting and somewhat frustrating. As difficult as it can be, there’s nothing that compares to it…

Apartment Hunting

Finding an apartment is going to be so overwhelming. Where do I start? How much will it cost? What does the apartment come with? Who’s going to help me move? If you don’t have a general idea of what you want and where you want it, you’ll have a harder time trying to decide.

Did you know that 1 in 6 people move out every year. That’s about 5 million people! You have a lot of competition out there. A lot of them have no idea what they’re doing either.

That’s where we come in. We’ve been where you are and have already gone through all this crap so you don’t have to. We’ve broken down the moving process into sections and have listed just about everything we could think of that you will need to know.

Time to start the apartment search

First things, first. Let’s find an apartment. But in order to do that, you need to answer a few questions….

Read more… via www.girlsmoveout.com

Beware of Rent-to-Own Home Scams

By Rachel Kiernan

With foreclosures at an all-time high and a poor economy, many people are looking into rent-to-own programs for their own piece of that American dream. Unfortunately, many if not most of these programs are simply another way of suckering people who have already been knocked down to the bottom rungs and appear to be nothing more than another predatory practice. I have looked into about a couple dozen rent-to-own programs, both for myself and for my friends and in two different states.  Every one I have seen makes a request for a sizable down payment along with a higher amount of rent, of which a partial amount is applied toward the purchase price of the home.  Usually one of the selling points of doing this is that the price of the home is locked in and cannot go up while you are living there.  From this point, you normally have 1-2 years to clean up your credit and apply for a mortgage on the home. Here are the catches which they won’t automatically tell you unless you ask and read the (very) fine print.

Read more… via www.factobiz.com

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About Us

“Where should I live?” is a question 40 million movers ask each year.


When we move, we want to know much more than bed, bath, and price. We want to know about the location, safety, walkability, social scene, etc. and get a feel for the neighborhood. Instead of starting dozens of rental sites to sort through hundreds of listings, we call a friend, family member, or co-worker and ask for advice and their opinion to help narrow down the location.


We’ve previously launched sites such as ApartmentGuide.com, RealEstate.com and Rentals.com, and are guest speakers about social media at industry events. (Next gig - http://tr.im/speaking)

 

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