HomeAway is excited to launch a new blog – Best Apps for Home Rentals! We have hand picked some of the best home rental apps available on the market today and each week will feature a new app. Next week we will have an article about Sandman Property Manager Mobile. People love to rent their dream homes but often tenants don’t know how to find the right app to help them rent properties. Finding the right property management software can be difficult and time consuming, that’s why mobile property management software is ideal
Table of Contents
Best Apps For Home Rentals
Best for Comparing Rental Rates
The Zillow Rentals app (Apple, Android) gives users access to spaces for rent throughout the country. You have the ability to personalize a search with specific features such as pet policy, in-unit laundry or on-site parking, and then save the searches that interest you the most. Zillow applies its Zestimate technology, best recognized to estimate the market value of a home, to show Rent Zestimates, making it easier for renters to compare an asking rent with others in the local area.
Trulia Rentals
Best for Scoping Out the Neighborhood
Trulia Rentals (Apple, Android) helps streamline inquiries with its one-click feature, which puts interested renters in direct contact with the property manager, without having to fill out an inquiry form for every apartment they’re interested in or search for a phone number. The Trulia Neighborhoods feature allows renters to learn important details about the area a rental is in, with surveyed opinions from local residents on safety and walkability, photos of the area and whether local laws protect gender identity and sexual orientation in housing, employment and public accommodations.
Apartment List
Best for Curated Apartment Options
Apartment List (Apple, Android) initially opens to ask you a series of questions about your next rental – location, budget, how you prioritize those details and what amenities are most important to you. Once you’ve answered the questions, Apartment List presents you with categorized groups of rental listings that match everything you want or are a bit kinder on your budget, among other options. When going through the listings, you can create a short list of favorites by approving or rejecting your options like you would on a dating app.
Apartments.com
Best for Real-Time Availability
Apartments.com’s app (Apple, Android) provides real-time availability on a map-based app, with a focus on including details of the amenities apartment communities offer and additional fees renters can expect. Filters make it easy to search within your own parameters, from school information to commute to work or other spots you frequent. Apartments.com also verifies its listings to cut down on the possibility of scam listings or dated information.
[ SEE: 7 Secrets You Can’t Hide From Your Landlord. ]
HotPads
Best for Major City Searches
HotPads (Apple, Android) is best known for its apartment listings in major cities, but the app displays inventory throughout the country. Features include neighborhood details, such as nearby schools and a walk score, to help you get a feel for the area around the apartment you’re considering. If you find a listing that you think would be a great fit for a friend or family member, the share button allows you to send the information with a couple simple clicks.
Zumper
Best for Completing the Renting Process
Zumper (Apple, Android) offers instant alerts as rental listings that meet your needs come online. Zumper also partners with TransUnion to provide you with your credit report so you can submit a rental application to a landlord securely through the app. Renters can take advantage of features such as booking tours, prequalifying for an apartment, making an offer on a rental and in some markets even paying rent once you’ve signed a lease.
Homesnap
Best for When You’re Out and About
Homesnap (Apple, Android) doesn’t offer a rental app separate from its sale listings app, but you have the ability to filter to only looking at properties for rent. The app’s signature feature still works, allowing you to take a photo of a home with a “for rent” sign and the app will find the active listing for you to check out the details. On the map feature, you can also view recently rented properties to compare an asking rent to what current tenants are paying in the area.
[ READ: 8 Red Flags to Help You Spot a Rental Scam. ]
Rent.com
Best for Boundary Search Options
Rent.com’s app (Apple, Android) allows you to find available visit times and book a tour for the apartments you’re interested in. You can narrow down your search based on certified residents’ reviews, which are obtained by a Rent.com survey of residents. Rent.com makes its boundary search, which is common in other apps, even more useful by being able to focus on more than one area that may not be connected.
Apartments by Apartment Guide
Best for Providing Landlords With Info
Apartment Guide (Apple, Android) provides high-definition photos and floor plans for a deeper look at available spaces. The app lets you save listings and send interesting ones to a friend for a second opinion. With the ability to contact property managers and landlords directly from the app, you’re also able to provide information they’ll want to know to approve your application, like income, credit score, needed move-in date and if you have any pets.
Apartment Finder
Best for Meeting Your Budget Needs
Apartment Finder (Apple, Android) caters to new renters and budget-conscious tenants. The app offers filters that help apartment hunters find the best deal based on their budget, including properties that accept housing vouchers, are offering specials and whether utilities are included in the rent. As you reach out to property managers and landlords, you can keep track of your communications in the Apartment Finder app as well.
Best Apps For Home Rentals
Sync all your booking portals automatically
Smoobu ensures that all your bookings are automatically synced across all your booking portals.
Connect to 100+ channels (15 via API)
Automatic booking synchronisation
Avoid double bookings
Sync prices and minimum stay
Integrate your vacation rental website
No commissions on bookings
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Putting our customers at the heart of everything we do
Smoobu’s support is highly rated. Our team speaks 7 different languages and is available 6 days a week via phone, chat and/or email.
Kalamata Top Rooms
smoobu is probably the channel manager with the best functionality/price ratio out there (and we confirm this after having done really serious evaluations for two years). Apart from the fact that it covers all necessary functionality for running a host-managing-business, for affordable subscription, they have a highly responsive support, and they are constantly adding functionality. Also for us hosting in Europe, where we are used to use more languages than only just English, they also have one of the best ‘multilingual usability’ schemes.
Hugo Patu
Awesome solution to manage all your properties different platform ads in a very clean and easy to use and configure platform.
Mehmet Göktuğ İçten
With Smoobu, I saved half of my time that I spent on each channels in order to update the calendar. I highly suggest Smoobu if you have more than 1 listing.
Ka Sia
Great customer service, reasonable prices 🙂
RESERVATION SYSTEM (PMS)
All your bookings in one central place
Your cockpit provides you with all relevant information and KPIs at a glance. View all your bookings from all connected portals in a clearly arranged list. Our Reservation System (PMS) is fully integrated with our Channel Manager.
A dashboard providing everything you need
All bookings in one centralised view
Single & multi-property views
Add direct bookings and blocked dates easily
Occupancy and revenues statistics
Guest contact list (CRM)
Share your calendars
ᐅ Short-Term & Vacation Rental Software | Smoobu
ᐅ Short-Term & Vacation Rental Software | Smoobu
BOOKING WEBSITE & BOOKING ENGINE
Create your booking website easily
With Smoobu’s codeless Website Builder, you can create your own Booking Website and generate additional sales without paying commissions. All tools are seamlessly integrated.
Create a fully responsive website within minutes
Accept online payments via Stripe and/or PayPal
Accept online deposits via Swikly
Calendar is synced with all booking portals
Translated in over 30 languages
Connect to your existing domain
Search engine optimised (SEO)
AUTOMATE YOUR RATES
Synchronise your rates to all portals
With Smoobu you can easily synchronise your prices automatically to all major booking portals. Simply define your base price per night in our account and deploy.
All rates in one centralised view
Import your current rates
Adapt rates per day
Adapt rates per period or days of the week
Add a mark-up per booking portal
Change minimum nights per day
ᐅ Short-Term & Vacation Rental Software | Smoobu
ᐅ Short-Term & Vacation Rental Software | Smoobu
PRODUCTIVITY PARTNERS
Integrate all your favourite apps
Smoobu partners with industry leading apps to enhance your guests experience and boost great reviews. Our engineering team does all the hard work, so you can focus on your guests.
Conclusion
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
Check out other publications to gain access to more digital resources if you are just starting out with Flux Resource.
Also contact us today to optimize your business(s)/Brand(s) for Search Engines