Real Estate Weekly
New Website Springs Into Action

Real Estate Weekly
Wednesday, May 5, 2004

New Website Springs into Action

Rent-Direct.com (www.Rent-Direct.com), New York’s number-one marketplace for no-broker-fee apartments, launched the newest version of its widely used apartment search website today. With the peak rental season quickly approaching, college graduations nearing and corporate relocations on the rise, Rent-Direct.com launched its site to accommodate an expected increase this year in the number of renters looking to avoid costly broker fees.

The new streamlined website is packed with resources that make finding an apartment in New York City faster, easier and more economical. The newest addition to the website is “virtual exclusive” apartment listings.  The “virtual exclusive” logo on a listing helps renters to easily identify apartments that can only be found on Rent-Direct.com and not on any other no-broker-fee website.  This gives renters who use Rent-Direct.com an added advantage and exclusive access to more apartments than ever before.

Rent-Direct.com members enjoy access to the largest marketplace of currently available no-broker-fee apartments, as well as useful tools and services.

“Think of Rent-Direct.com as a marketplace for apartments where renters and landlords come together without an expensive broker in between,” says Rent-Direct.com Vice President, Ralph Barocas.  “Renters need to know we are more than just a list.  We are a full-service alternative to using a broker.”