Consider this post to be a spilling of the beans. I had an idea nearly a year ago that would provide a way for real estate agents to market their listings to students looking for housing. Being that I live so close to Notre Dame this was a local issue. A client asked me if I knew of a resource to market listings near campus. I said I did not and moved on. A few days later I was talking to my mom in the kitchen and told her the idea I had about starting a website catered to such real estate and I told her I was starting it. CampusHomesOnline.com was born! Through the help of a Twitter friend (well, most of his work is in this thus far) we are close to a beta launch.

CampusHomesOnline.com is a centralized and national listing service for real estate agents, property managers and homeowners to advertise homes for sale/rent, apartments for rent, and game day rentals to students and renters. Listings are a flat $29 for a 6-month ad – no hidden fees, no commissions like other listing services. Visitors features include:

• Ability to save searches and retrieve results later
• Sign up for email notifications of new listings that match their search criteria
• Ability to text a listing to a friend
• Save searches to a custom URL to share with friends and family
• Search by miles radius from campus (.5 mile, 1 mile, 1.5 miles, etc.)
• Listings are limited to 1.5 miles from a campus to keep content relevant

Advertiser features include:

• Copy a listing to carry over information to a new listing
• Spotlight advertiser packages
• Featured property packages
• Web 2.0 Widgets to place on your website or in blog posts
• HTML code for Craigslist

We are very excited about the launch. Sign up for information regarding the release!

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