Maybe you are a:

• First time landlord and you’ve never rented to students but want to start
• Current landlord and you have additional properties that are not on the site yet
• School official and you want to add rentals to your schools database on RateMyStudentRental.com for students to search through as they hunt for their next temporary dwelling
• Recent…or not so recent graduate and you no longer have your school email address but you’d like to add your past rentals to the website

No matter what your situation (unless you’re just a shameless spammer) we’ve expanded our business model to allow landlords, school officials and unregistered users to add their property to our database. This allows for more properties for students to choose from during the rental search, it helps expedite the students job of rating the rentals, as well as giving your property an outlet to be promoted.

Currently Registered Landlords & School Officials:

1. Log into your Landlord account.
2. Click the green ‘Add Rental’ tab.
3. Add the rental address, be sure to include the city and state.
4. Next, select the type of rental (house, dorm, apartment…) and choose the school that your rental is associated with.
5. We will go through our regular verification process and contact you ASAP with the confirmation code for the rental you just added.  You may be contacted through the messaging system on RateMyStudentRental.com

Unregistered/First Time Users and Landlords:

1. Go to www.ratemystudentrental.com
2. Click the green ‘Rate’ tab towards the top of the home page (Or click here) (if you are a student, please register with your school email address first).
3. Enter in the rental address, be sure to include the city and state.
4. Enter in the anti-spam code.
5. Next, select the type of rental (house, dorm, apartment…) and choose the school that your rental is associated with.
6. We will go through our verification process so that we can identify the landlord.  The landlord will receive an invitation and confirmation code shortly.

The rentals that are added with out reviews will be ready for students rate and will still show up in the seaches, landlords can add pictures, details and descriptions to provide potential student tenants with important information.  Increase your property profile’s viability and validity by encouraging past and/or current tentants to rate your rental as soon as possible.

Thank you for helping us create the ultimate student housing tool!

Landlords, did you know handfuls of surveys tell us that on average 90% + of students care about going Green, working for companies who practice Green in the work place, recycle, or just jumped on the bandwagon of “Going Green” in some way, shape, or form.

Some have taken the Green movement all the way into starting their own business.  A fellow student of Young Entrepreneurs, started a company called DryGreen, an eco-friendly carpet cleaning business out of East Lansing, MI.

Their website is very helpful, you can see any current specials in addition to entering in the total square footage of your rental to get an estimate on their service for your space.  Not only will you have the satisfaction of knowing you participated in the Green movement and you did your part of not polluting our earth with stinky chemicals but you’ll also be keeping some Green in your pockets.  DryGreen claims that their services cost 60% less than Chem Dry & 30% less than Stanley Steamer.

We all know, but sometimes don’t want to know what exactly is in that carpet at our student rental.  Landlords, we hope you do your part of cleaning the carpet between student turn-overs.  Working with DryGreen appears to be a win-win situation:  you are doing the Green thing, your costs can be reduced, and you’ll have happy students which leave great reviews on your rental.

Spoiler Alert: A friend on Facebook for whom you’ve restricted access to your tagged Photos can view all of your tagged photos that have comments on them that were uploaded by you in albums that don’t also explicitly restrict access, despite what Facebook’s help dialog states.

Bonus: They can also see some of your Photo Albums from the new Facebook iPhone App (version 2.0). Be sure to set the privacy settings for each album you’ve uploaded to restrict access to your Limited Profile friend list.

We don’t normally write posts for this kind of thing, but I figured this information is important to anyone trying to keep a professional face on your Facebook presence for family and business contacts.

When setting up your Limited Profile, it is often the case that you want to restrict access to tagged photos of yourself. Of course it’s only natural that you’d want to keep Mom and Dad (who now use Facebook to stay in contact with you) from seeing that night (or girl) you don’t remember. Or maybe you don’t want an employer to see why you’re so tired every morning. Be warned, these privacy settings might not be as far-reaching as you think.

The screenshots below were taken while logged into my own account, but I was able to duplicate these steps while logged in as a friend who I had added to my Limited Profile. Someone on your Limited Profile can see all your tagged photos with comments in the following way:

1. Click on your Profile picture to view your Profile Pictures Album.
   

   Profile Photo Album

2. Click “View Comments” to view all of your profile pictures with comments.
   

   Profile Photo Comments

3. Click “See All Photo Comments” to see all of your tagged photos with comments.
   

   Photo Comments

That’s right, someone on your Limited Profile, which is set up to restrict access to tagged photos of yourself, can see all of your tagged photos that have comments. And of course, the photos with comments are going to be the most outrageous ones… that’s why they have comments.

My Privacy Settings

Did I miss something here? I highly suggest adding a close friend to your Limited Profile and asking them to let you take your profile for a spin from their account to make sure everything is in order.

Update:

I added a few more people to my Limited Profile to get more verification, and my buddy (Joe Minock over at WhatUNeedLocal) just found that once you do Step 3, you can then click “Back to Steve’s Photos” and see ALL of my tagged photos on Facebook. I repeat, Joe, who is restricted from seeing my photos, can see ALL of my photos on Facebook. see all tagged photos of me that are in my own photo albums if the album isn’t specifically set to restrict access to the Limited Profile.

Update 2:

This is apparently not a flaw in programming, but a flaw in the copy of the Privacy Settings description for tagged photos. Facebook says:

Tagged Photos

Use this control to decide who can see the list of photos of you that you or your friends have tagged.

Despite what Facebook says, however, this does not include photos in which you’ve been tagged that are in your own albums that don’t explicitly also restrict access to the Limited Profile in the album’s privacy settings.