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Renters under 23 need not apply

By Janet Portman, Thursday, April 2, 2009.

Q: We own a vacation home at the beach, which we rent out as well as use ourselves. It has three bedrooms, ideal for two or three couples, or a family or a bunch of unrelated adults. We want to avoid having it rented by college students, whom we've found to be risky (lots of damage). Can we specify "No one under 23 years of age" in our ad? --Bill and Suzanne H.  more...

The do-it-yourself real estate Web site

By Teresa Boardman, Thursday, April 2, 2009.
Flickr photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geishaboy500/100043823/"target=blank>geishaboy500</a>.

This week I got rid of my Realtor Web site. I have had the site for seven years. It gets some traffic but the origin of the traffic and business is my blog. I have been using the Web site as a kind of business card and it had some forms in it that potential clients could fill out, and they did.

It also had a page for my listings, and an Internet Data Exchange (IDX, an online data-sharing agreement among brokers) solution that I pay for separately.  more...