Episode #23: See Apartments Before They Hit StreetEasy

Can you imagine if you could see all the new rental listings, which are not yet posted to StreetEasy, on one website?

Imagine the opportunities for you and your clients:

• Your clients would get “EARLY ACCESS” to apartments
• Your owners would get a new kind of creative “sneak peek” advertising
• You could avoid harsh mandatory posting fees
• Most importantly, you will play an important role in helping to loosen the stranglehold that StreetEasy has over this industry. 

All of this is already happening on getfirstpeek.com, where brokers can see rental listings all in one place before they hit StreetEasy. 

HOW DOES IT WORK?
As you know, once StreetEasy started charging mandatory posting fees, many agents came up with the brilliant idea to post their new listings on other websites first (through the RLS, etc.) BEFORE posting to StreetEasy.

Get First Peek, a feature of Frele, simply compiles all these rentals that are not yet posted on StreetEasy into one place (for free of course).  

Since most of your listings are already on our website through the RLS, all you have to do to get your listings on Get First Peek is to “tag” your new listings by going to freemylistings. Simply select the number of days they should remain on Get First Peek and click “save”.  It takes only a few seconds.

Don’t worry if you don’t have any current/new listings now.  You can still go to freemylistings, select the default number of days, and future listings will be tagged automatically.  You only have to do this once and then not think about it anymore.

WHY WILL THIS WORK? 
StreetEasy’s achilles heel is this: YOU and the owners control the inventory, NOT them.

This is our chance as an industry to fight back with our best weapon: Access to Inventory.

JUST ONE DAY EARLY HELPS
Even listing just ONE DAY EARLY on alternative websites before listing on StreetEasy will have a huge effect when multiplied by hundreds if not thousands of real estate agents.

THAT IS WHY YOUR HELP IS NEEDED.  PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SPREAD THE WORD.  

Phil Horigan
Founder,
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Get First Peek by Frēlē: Where rentals appear before they hit the mainstream websites