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Re:Ask HN: Review RentPost.com by earle on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @12:39PM (#2144059)
Additionally, since the aforementioned demographics on property owners and management companies is accurate, you should consider alternative tactics.

What about modifying the initial workflow from the Tenants perspective and allow Tenants to make rent payments to Landloards who are not yet even on this site?

Seems like the easiest way to address your potential market (landlords) since there is certainly a huge demographic of renters who would like to use this service from the payment perspective. Changing the focus on the landing page to be directed at the Tenant -- as in PAY YOUR RENT NOW, and focusing on the benefits to the tenant as part of your conversion process.

Re:Ask HN: Review RentPost.com by oojacoboo on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @12:43PM (#2144074)
YES, but there are SERIOUS issues to doing this with regards to payments. You essentially have to be a registered bank or approved status in order to aggregate payments in order to support this. It's very complicated, expensive, and there is tons of red tape. This is where we wanted to go from the start before addressing many of these concerns.
Re:Ask HN: Review RentPost.com by earle on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @03:03PM (#2144863)
sorry, but these are just excuses. disrupting process is the entire goal, so start thinking outside the box and figure it out, not avoiding it because its "hard"