An interesting collage of 130 logos from real estate web 2.0 sites. The image is the face of Ben Bernanke.

How to price your rental home.

rentBits, allows renters to search for houses for rent and apartments anywhere in the United States. We crawl the web, actively looking for rental properties. The index is currently over 300,000 rental listings that are updated daily and this is growing each day.

For example, if you are looking for houses for rent in Denver, you will be shown rentals from various sources that match your search.

With all this data, we have been asked to show what the average rental rates are in each city we have listings. Below is the average rental rates widget we launched last week. If you want to add this to your site, you can do so with our free average rental rates tool.

We are very excited to announce that Apartment Marketer has relaunched. We added a new look and feel to the site as well as a new logo.

Take a look at it and let us know what you think.

A few days ago we released our new consumer product called rentBits.com. rentBits is a rental search engine that allows renters to search for properties across many sites from one place.

You can search for rental homes in las vegas nevada, austin texas, or anywhere else in the United States for free.

Below is our press release from which we have received a lot of great press:

Ex-Googlers Launch rentBits.com - Vertical Search for Rentals

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--rentBits.com today announced the beta launch of its rental search engine, offering renters one place to find available rental homes, condos and apartments.

rentBits helps users make sense of the millions of bits of rental housing data and information that reside on the web. Using advanced search technology, rentBits crawls the web to provide users with an index of single family home, condo and apartment for rent listings from major rental sites, associations and property management websites.

In addition to improving the online search experience for rental properties, rentBits also offers:

• Intuitive and clean search design
• No login requirements
• New rental search technology
• Comprehensive listings
• Speed and accuracy
• Daily listing updates

The rentBits executive team brings search and advertising expertise to the online rental space. Dan Daugherty (CEO) and Tim Moynihan (COO) come from Google and Dariusz Rakowicz (CTO) has extensive experience developing technology and search platforms for the hotel industry.

"While at Google, we learned to develop products that were simple to use, free for users, and clean of annoying advertising," says Dan Daugherty, President and CEO. "rentBits has all of these qualities and this beta release is just the beginning. We will continue to innovate so we can provide the best rental search experience for our users."

rentBits' business is advertising-based and provides a platform for property managers, real estate investors and agents to reach renters while they are actively searching for rental properties.

For more information, or to search for a rental home or apartment, visit http://www.rentbits.com/. Read about or comment on updated rentBits news and observations in the rental industry at rentBits' corporate blog at http://www.rentbits.com/blog.

About rentBits

rentBits is a national rental search engine offering renters one place to search across many rental sources. The company offers an intuitive, clean interface, new rental search technology, and the most comprehensive index of rental property listings to help renters find an apartment or home for rent. rentBits was started by a group of Internet and real estate veterans, including ex-Googlers Dan Daugherty and Tim Moynihan. Located in Denver, rentBits is a subsidiary of Rent Marketer, Inc (www.rentmarketer.com), the largest online rental distribution platform in the world.

Original Source at our RentBits Blog:

Anything you do and want to be extraordinary at, shoot for the moon, if you miss, you will land among the stars……

Whether you are running a fortune 500 company, a real estate business, property management firm, ice cream shop, a charity or are a stay at home mom, these 10 simple rules will make you achieve extraordinary results.

1. Set Goals and Quantify Everything of Significance

You will be amazed how much something will improve if you set goals and measure the results. Break up your dream and vision into sizable parts. A dream can be broken down into goals, each goal can be broken down into steps, and each step can be broken down into tasks. Each task should have a completion date.

“Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” - F. Dodson

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” - Helen Keller

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” - J.C. Penney

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” - Henry Ford

2. Find Great Partners and Mentors

Learn from those who have succeeded and failed. Don’t waist your time with those who have done neither.

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” - Henry Ford

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.” - Walter Winchel

“Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” - Miguel De Cervantes

3. Feel Uncomfortable every Day

Feeling nervous, unnatural and scared, helps you grow. Think for a minute about your biggest challenges and fears in life. Is it public speaking? Is it losing that extra 10 lbs? Is it having a more loving relationship? Is it making cold calls? We can all improve on everything. Do an extra 2 reps when your body says it can’t. Join a public speaking class when your mind says no. Make another 4 cold calls when you think you have already called enough. Make it a point to feel uncomfortable each day and you will grow exponentially.

“Success is always to be found on the other side of fear.” Unknown

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do” - Eleanor Roosevelt

4. Get past the Dip

There is a Chinese proverb that says, “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.” Gym memberships and gym traffic go through the roof in December and die down to normalcy in Feb. Why do you think that is?

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” - Ross Perot

“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up” - Thomas Edison

5. Follow your Passion

Passion is contagious. People can feel and touch it. It lives within us all and allows for extraordinary things to be accomplished. Find your passion and you will be extraordinary.

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” - George Burns

“A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.” - Andy Munthe

6. Solve Problems

A bi-product of solving difficult problems is innovation.

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” - Henry Ford

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.” - Unknown

“Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.” - Henry Ford

7. Focus on one thing

Resources are limited. Peanut butter is easy to spread thin, but it sticks to the roof of your mouth.

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody” - Bill Cosby

“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.” - Nido Qubein

“One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it’s only two pair and a jack.” - Mark Twain

8. Just do it

An idea is just the beginning. Get up and make the idea a reality.

“My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso” - Pablo Picasso

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” - Pablo Picasso

“You’re not a failure if you don’t make it. You’re a success because you tried.” - Susan Jeffers

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” - Theodore Roosevelt

9. Fail often, Learn from each Failure

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” - Thomas Edison

” You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.” - Napolean

10. Laugh and Smile

One thing is for sure, we are all here for a limited time. Make the most of it and have fun.

“I never worked a day in my life. It was all fun!” - Thomas Edison

“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn’t matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.” - Mother Teresa

This is  hilarious:

10 Commandments of Fake Steve Jobs:

1. Never let people know where they stand. Keep them guessing. Keep them afraid. Otherwise they get complacent. Creativity springs from fear. Think of a painter… he’s going to starve to death if he doesn’t get his work done … Same goes for the people at Apple and Pixar. They come in every day knowing it could be their last … they work like hell; trust me.

2. You don’t have to hire the best people. You can hire anyone as long as you scare the shit out of them … Look at the crappy cars that get made in Detroit, where nobody ever gets fired. Compare that to the stuff that gets made in Vietnamese sweat shops … We can’t literally put our employees lives at risk [but] we never could have made OS X so reliable if our engineers didn’t believe [every] time a bug surfaced one man was going to be killed.

3. Only promote stupid people. But not just any stupid people. You have to find the certain type of stupid people who actually believe they’re super brilliant. They make insanely great managers and are incredibly easy to manipulate. It’s easy to spot them. Former McKinsey consultants are top candidates.

4. Never tell people what is expected of them. Hold people to an impossibly high standard, but here’s the twist — don’t tell them what that standard is. And fire them if they fall short. You know what that does to people? It makes them crazy…Crazy people are more creative. And more productive. Every shrink in the world knows this.

5. A manager should be inconsistent and unpredictable. Be random. One day say something is great and the guy who made it is a genius. The next day say it’s crap, and he’s a moron. Watch how hard that guy will work now, trying to impress you.

6. No praise. Ever. Management gurus also tell you to reward performance … I disagree … Start praising people and pretty soon they starting thinking they’re as smart as you are. You cannot have this. All employees must know at all times that you are better in every way than they are. Repeated criticism in the most humiliating fashion is one way to accomplish this.

7. Keep people’s spirits broken. Fire people on a regular basis for no reason. Fly off the handle, shout at people, call them names, then fire them. Or better yet, don’t fire them. let them believe they’ve survived for a few days. Then, when they’re relaxed, call then in and fire them.

8. Throw Tantrums. One [tactic] that should only be used in extreme circumstances … literally cry and scream and roll around on the floor like a three-year-old … It works because it freaks people out to see a grown man crying and screaming. They’ll do anything to make it stop. Brilliant.

9. Don’t speak to employees in elevators. I’ll get on the elevator… and smile or say hi … sometimes [employees] carry on a conversation with each other, one that does not include me. I’ll wait until we get to my floor, and then, as the door opens, I’ll turn and say: ‘What you just said is completely wrong. You know not whereof you speak. Please go clean out your desk.’

10. Start with the ad campaign. Part of what makes [Apple] different—and, yes, better—is the way we create products. We don’t start with the product itself. We start with the ads. We’ll spend months on advertisements alone … Everybody else starts with the product. [This] is why most advertising sucks. At Apple … If we can’t come up with a good ad, we probably won’t do the product.

I am getting ready for the NetLeaders networking event on Thursday which will be held at Liberty Media's Headquarters in Englewood Colorado. Some of the Speakers and Panelists will be John Malone, Jon Nordmark of eBags.com, Rich Barton of Zillow.com and others.

I am excited to meet everyone again.

I have to admit, I have never been a big fan of these celebrity T.V. shows. However, today I stumbled upon Dancing with the Stars and was transfixed on the potential car wreck suspense that could happen at any minute. Of course, while staring at the beautiful woman, that never happened.

Tonight it is estimated that 18-20 million viewers watched this show. How many more seasons can this keep up?