Should we Rate Landlords?

Those of us in the hosing provider business are still getting a bad shrift from the old "Landlord" label.

But what if there were a way for those of us good landlords to stand out and be differentiated from a bad landlord? Would that work?

In a free market the customer (tenant) would go to the good businessman (housing provider) and pay higher rents for better services. More satisfied customers mean more profits.

You recall Econ 101 right. Is our market ready for an educated tenant base?

Do we want our potential tenants to know about the building or the fellow tenants in your building? What if the problem is not an item the housing provider can regulate or protect against. Really hard to bite that one as a owner who just happens to have one tenant that has strong cooking smells or a screaming child. But if may be good for the potential tenant to be forewarned.

Therefore there is a good possibility that this new service will make it.

http://www.rottenneighbor.com

Tell me what you think of that idea!

Give it plenty of time to do the Overlay of the dots onto the map. Lots of Data and such. And it is in Beta mode too. I think it should be used to rate good things too.

So I tried to place a Dot (green) for Santa Monica Bar & Grille to say "Good Music Here" Can you find it?

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