I’ve had some projects bouncing around for awhile now and one of them is finally getting all of the loose ends tied down as I mentioned in my previous post. It’s landlordredlist.com. Ironically, the “red” part of it has nothing to do with my red soled shoe obsession. The red-listing had started a long time ago, in fact it was documented on this blog back in May of 2008. We put the plans in place and finally created the company LLC, secured the domain, writing the frameworks and developing the marketing plan. And now it’s come to fruition and will launch in just a few short weeks.
Working in my property management day job, we have had a rash of obvious, fake landlord references come through on our rental applications. What are these people thinking?! Do they really think that we won’t notice? *Ahem* This is not our first rodeo, we do A LOT of property management here in Springfield, Missouri. We have our “ways” of checking out potential tenants, but it tedious trying to go to all the sources to research someone. It would be nice to have one centralized place to go 24 hours a day where I can check out an applicant. So imagine a combination of the courts Case Net, The Better Business Bureau, Rate-A-Realtor, and Angie’s List all in one place and you’ll have Landlord Red List.
It’s a pet project that will take some time to build up the database, but my business partners and I are working our little fingers to the bone.
I know, I know… another project… shocking, huh? As usual, thanks for hearing me out.
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This is a great idea! I have seen this type of situation happen on several occasions, one instance where someone’s significant other pretended to be a former landlord and then I ended up meeting her later. Maybe she should have used a fake name? haha