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US 2014/0279173 A1Published application
Online real estate rental offer system and method
AssigneeZumper, Inc.
InventorAnthemos P. Georgiades
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Abstract
An online real estate rental offer system provides prospective tenants with transparent pricing and other information for a particular rental unit. The system allows prospective tenants to adjust their rent offers in response to offers made by other prospective tenants.
Claims14
A computer implemented method for conducting real estate rental transactions, comprising:
- (a) providing on a server computer system an online listing for a real estate rental, said online listing being accessible by client devices operated by prospective tenants over a communications network, said online listing providing information on a real estate property to be rented;
- (b) receiving, at the server computer system, an offer and a rental application for the real estate rental from each of a plurality of prospective tenants, each offer indicating a rent amount the prospective tenant is willing to pay for the real estate rental;
- (c) providing a live online offer board for the real estate rental on the server computer system accessible by the client devices operated by the prospective tenants, said live online offer board displaying the rent amount of each offer received for the rental property or the total number of offers received for the rental property, said live online offer board being dynamically updated with each new offer received by the server computer system from prospective tenants;
- (d) selecting a prospective tenant whose offer is to be accepted from the plurality of prospective tenants based at least in part on the offer and the rental application of the prospective tenant;
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- (e) notifying the prospective tenant whose offer is to be accepted.
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A computer system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- memory associated with the at least one processor;
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- a program supported in the memory for conducting real estate rental transactions, the program containing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- (a) provide an online listing for a real estate rental, said online listing being accessible by client devices operated by prospective tenants over a communications network, said online listing providing information on a real estate property to be rented;
- (b) receive an offer and a rental application for the real estate rental from each of a plurality of prospective tenants, each offer indicating a rent amount the prospective tenant is willing to pay for the real estate rental;
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- (c) provide a live online offer board for the real estate rental accessible by the client devices operated by the prospective tenants, said live online offer board displaying the rent amount of each offer received for the rental property or the total number of offers received for the rental property, said live online offer board being dynamically updated with each new offer received by the server computer system from prospective tenants.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.