Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions. (FAQ)'s

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1. How much does it cost?

53 weeks for $99. Less than one day at your property, more economical than your local paper. Cheaper than the vacancy you may have by not having this listing....................
We have no commissions!

2. How many pictures can my home have?

Typically, if your home is 3 bedrooms, you can have approximately 6+ pictures of the three bedrooms and the exterior or surrounding area. Possibly more! (size dependant)
Another example: If your home is 5 bedrooms, you can have approximately 8+ pictures of the five bedrooms and the exterior or surrounding area. Generally, three exteriors and one for each bedroom. Possibly more!
Generally, picture size is reduced to approximately 640 x 480 or slightly larger. This is nearly the whole screen on a 15" monitor. Posted photos are usually 320 x 240 which open to a larger size on the browser's computer.
Disclaimer: All property ad information is submitted by the property owner / agent. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. We encourage current, updated photos with a description and the date of the photo listed. We will remove ads that misrepresent a property or by multiple complaints.

3. How do I update my web page? **This feature COMING SOON **

We have drawn up a template. Simply use the password you choose to access your ad. Use any computer connected to the internet. Change prices and availability in a minute. Update old photos, remodeling work or features, provided your pictures are in the computer you are accessing your web ad from.......................

4. Sounds Complex. Can your staff update my site for me?

Of course we can update your ad for you. Here's what we can do for you:
Update text, photos, rates and availability* once a year at no charge. This is done as soon as possible during normal business hours. Updates may take several days if changed over vacations, long weekends or mailed in to our office.
Update text, photos, rates and availability each additional time for $5 each update.
If available in your area, we can take pictures of your rental property for you, exterior and interior, for $50 up to six bedrooms. This is scheduled when access can be gained to the property. Updates and/or Photos may take several days or longer depending upon the scheduling and access to the property.
* availability varies daily, even hourly. We cannot update each ad daily. We will try to make availability changes as the owner updates us.

**** In lieu of the Template system, we will create, post and print your ad with photos for the yearly service charge. ****

Updates and/or photo taking are done as soon as possible during normal business hours. Updates may take several days if changed over vacations, long weekends or mailed in to our office. Photo service is a scheduled service and may take longer.

5. Can you take pictures of my home? Maybe....................

If available in your area, we can take pictures of your rental property for you, exterior and interior, for $50 up to five bedrooms. Otherwise each additional bedroom is $15. (Example: a eight bedroom home would be $50 plus (3 extra bedrooms x $15) for a total of $95.) This is scheduled when access can be gained to the property. Updates and/or Photos may take several days or longer depending upon the scheduling and access to the property.

6. What types of payments do you take?

For the payment of your web page ad we accept:

MasterCard, Visa, Discover personal or business checks in US dollars and cash monies.

Any Office, Photo or other web site services can also be paid in the above forms. We may ask you for more information to verify the validity of the charge. We may need you to print out and e-mail/fax us an authorization with your signature.

Please have the card/"plate" ready when you contact us to place a charge on your card.

7. I want to use my American Express Card. Can I ?

We don't currently accept the American Express card, Personal or Corporate card. Neither do we take the Optima card.

What about American Express checks and/or Travelers Checks?

We can and will accept American Express Travelers Checks for payment of services and/or web site ads. They need to be signed in front of us. A tough requirement to full-fill, but possible.

8. I don't like to use my credit card over the internet. How can I use one to pay for my web site ad?

We maintain a credit card machine (terminal) here at the office. Our staff can manually punch into our credit card terminal your credit card account number for charging the cost of services. Telephone in your request during normal business hours. DO NOT leave your credit card account info on our answering machine/service.
******* This feature will be available soon. *******
You can e-mail the account number in the following manner: Send two e-mails at different times. The first e-mail to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with (1 of 2 and your full name (as on the card) in the subject field) the first eight numbers of your account. Then later send another e-mail with (2 of 2 and your full name (as on the card) in the subject field) to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the last/second series of eight numbers of your credit card account and the three special numbers on the back of your card where you sign it, WITH YOUR PHONE NUMBER. Be prepared to verify some information by telephone and have the charge card/"plate" ready when we call.

9. Refund Policy:

If you use the site for 30 days and receive no inquiries on your property and/or have difficulties in getting your ad up and running, we will give you a refund of your $99 web site ad fee if you ask us within the first 45 days. This will cancel your web page and it will be removed from our servers. No prorated refunds after 45 days.

Any special service(s) and/or photography contracted is a service which you will receive contract work and/or photos of your home. Therefore, there will be no refund of the labor charged in providing you photos of your home. The photos will be clear and/or in reasonable focus. We will retake photos on a case by case basis. Photos will be viewed and either accepted or rejected by the client while at the home during the scheduled photo taking, being present is your chance to accept the photos taken are to your liking. These above mentioned services are beyond the scope of the $99 web page ad, referred to by this site.

Any ad removed due to multiple complaints, deceptive advertising, cancelled after 45 days, fraud and/or any other reason will not be refunded the advertising fee of $99 and/or an amount higher due to special services and/or photography ordered and rendered.

In the Future:

It is the design of this web page service to provide a calendar feature to be used to show availability of weeks rented and available.

10. Disclaimer:

All property ad information is submitted by the property owner / agent. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. We encourage current, updated photos with a description and the date of the photo listed. We will remove ads that misrepresent a property or from multiple complaints.

11. How Do I get started?

Go to the "Sign Up" page!

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