Method and system for apartment rental inspections without presence of brokers or rental agents

A system for facilitating real estate (RE) unit rentals by intermediating landlords and potential tenants (PT) and enabling RE unit inspections and viewing without requiring on-site landlord representatives, the system comprising:

• a master-server facility including software modules and databases for executing system algorithms that enable and control communications between landlord communication devices, PT devices and apartment devices;
• a respective, remotely-operable and wirelessly controlled door lock installed on an entry door of the RE unit;
• said apartment devices including communication and monitoring devices temporarily installed in the RE units to enable said RE unit inspections and viewing;
• said software modules including at least:
• a) a unit listing software module that receives unit listing information from the landlords, said information including and identifying the locations, identities and additional information for the RE units available for rental, said unit listing software module listing the RE units information in a manner accessible for viewing by the PT;
• b) a tenant liaison module that is configured to allow tenants to communicate to the landlords their desire to inspect one or more specified ones of the listed RE units at desired time slots;
• c) an inspection scheduling module that is configured to schedule inspection visits of a given PT, in a manner that does not conflict or interfere with previously scheduled inspections and prospective inspection schedules by other PT;
• d) a door opening module that sends to the PT devices at least one activation code for the door lock;
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• e) a tenant present module that verifies that the potential tenant is located in proximity to the entry door which enables the lock and activates the lock to unlock when activated by the PT devices.