Advertise Your House For Rent and Get Internet Exposure With Craigslist
Advertising your house for rent doesn’t have to be a daunting proposition. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on advertising and promoting your rental home.
For most landlords and property owners, the major problem they have is a lack of leads and renters who know about their house. If you’re trying to rent a house, one of your biggest hurdles is advertising. But with the Internet and Craigslist you can now tell others about your house that is for rent by tapping into free Internet advertising. Some landlords waste a lot of time and money using a Realtor add their rental property to the local Multiple Listing Service or MLS.
Although, you can get decent exposure with MLS services, it doesn’t compare to the cost effectiveness of Craigslist. These MLS systems feed hundreds of different real estate websites but they websites don’t produce a quarter of the leads that Craigslist does. MLS systems and newspaper classifieds use to be the only way to get leads and exposure for your home for rent. But with the Internet you can get as much exposure as you want and for free.
With the Internet, you can still get your home for rent exposure to dozens of websites for free. The best of these websites is Craigslist, hands down! With Craigslist you can place photos and descriptions of your property for rent. You can easily and quickly create a classified on Craigslist for free. This great classified advertising resource also gets great exposure on Google and will further expose your rental ad across the Internet and world.
You don’t have to be Internet savvy to advertise your house for rent on Craigslist. The web site is user friendly and is incredibly easy to use. They eliminate all barriers to help you successfully advertise your home on the Internet.
House Music Production – Producing House Music Tips
This house music production article is written for the same reason you are reading it, and that is to take my skills to another level and get even better at what I do best, producing house music. With this guide I want to help you learn how to get your producing skills sound really bona fide. It may sound very simple in theory but it can be a pain to make a dope house track, and as always, in order to understand it you need to listen to it.
The favorite kick drum for house music production is the Roland TR-909. The main reason would be that, it has got a great low end power. The pattern for the kick is mostly a 4/4 beat, but you don’t have to leave them straight because they will sound robotic. Propellerhead Reason 4 has got a new feature called the Re-Groove to steer clear of that.
You can even do this manually by shifting individual notes (in your software midi editor) and changing the level of certain notes. Another way is to apply a 16th note swing quantization. If you are producing your tracks digitally, you must make sure that you give them a human feel and soul to you track, make it sound as if it was performed by a live band.
House music uses a lot of synthetic sounds such as the Omnisphere by Spectrasonics, Jupiter-8V by Arturia, Massive by Native Instruments, Sylenth1 and many more. The Arturia MiniMoog is my favorite VST instrument for bass sounds.
The Hi-Hats patterns are mostly on the eighth-note and open hats on the offbeat pattern. For percussion, most producers use loops, but you are more than welcome to program your own. Playing the riffs and chords with a midi controller is better than programming them using a mouse. You can double your chords with another instrument to have enough body, if needed.
If you have a vocal feel free to play around with it, chop it or even create great effects from it. Try not to make the track repetitive, your song needs to have dynamics (loud and soft parts). Always keep in mind that house music is all about making people dance. You can also use automation to keep the song moving, automate the vst instrument knobs (especially the filter) to create a sweep sound.
This can also work well with effects such as delay and reverb to make the chorus part sound bigger than the verse. The snare and claps must be punchy with a short reverb (preferably room reverb) and mostly on an offbeat pattern.
Finding a House for Rent
Trying to find a house for rent can be very frustrating, to say the least. Most people complain that there just is not enough houses for rent to choose from. You might find the perfect house for rent, but it is not in the right area. Conversely, you may find houses for rent in areas, other than in your desired neighborhood. As a means to finding more houses for rent, you might want to consider a rent-to-own program. Generally there are more houses available for rent-to-own, then there are only for rent. No need to worry that you have now committed yourself to buying the house. Signing a rent-to-own contract simply means that if you want to buy the house at a later date, you have that option. But what if your credit is bad, or you have no credit? For most investors bad credit is not a big concern. Typically, they work with a loan officer who will help you repair your credit, often in 6 months or less.
The great thing about rent to own houses is that typically, you get a rent credit, which can be applied to the purchase price of the house. Often, as much as 20% per month for all on-time payments!Look at the following example:
You find a house for rent, on a rent-to-own program. The option to purchase price is 200,000. After 24 months this rent to own house appreciates in value by the industry average of 4% per year, making it worth 216,320. Now, let’s say your rent payment is $1,500 per month. At the end of two years you will have paid $36,000 in rent. But wait! You have a 20% rent credit of $7,200!
IF you choose to exercise your Option to Purchase, you can buy this $216K house for $192,800! The best part is, there will be NO REALTOR FEES! What bank would say no to a loan like that? So if you are trying to find a house for rent, you just might want to consider rent to own houses too.About the author: David L. Trosdahl has been the CEO of 3 regional sales & marketing companies and founder of a non-profit corporation. A real estate investor since 1991, David has bought and sold numerous residential properties, and has helped many people find a house for rent. David is a member of the real estate investors association: MNREIA, is founder of the real estate investing website: RentToOwn-MN.com and many others.