landlord tenant management system - a meeting place for nice landlords and tenants

more and more people are renting and changing location/job more frequently in the uk. with the support from the buy-2let market, it may be an oppetunity to profit from the expected ever increasing transactions between landlord and tenants.

advantage over traditional estate agents and fee charge advertisement:
- web based
- uk range
- credit history of tenants and landlords, trust and linkage from historic tenants . similar to ebay's trust system.
- landlord but-2-let portfolial management. vacancy management.
- no completion, no fee. one cut fee upon successful securing tenants.
- Google map integration for location profile
- more appealing customer's PL profile.
- information exchange

profits:
commission from landlords upon success
a very small fee (refundable at the end of the tenancy if leave reference for this landlord) from the potencial tenants for accessing the landlord's credit histroy
a very small fee (refundable at the end of the tenancy if leave reference for this tenant) from the landlord for accessing the tenant's credit histroy
adsense ads revenue



proposed features:
- landlord and tenant profile managment
- landlord portfolio managment
- deposit tracking
- vacancy managment and planning (integrated with tenant's making one-month-advanced leaving notification)
- customised rental agreement
- customised inventry management
- google map
- successful tenants will be able to access a welcome package prepared by the landlord

further development:
- Web service / Web API interface for B2B intergration
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futhur research implications: agent technology, knowledge management, semantic web?

related fields: credit reference agency, credit checking services.

B2B idea - customer feedback services for Product improvement

just like what flickr has a service that allows its customer to post/poll the most desirable features.

Similar service made more generic (can be custemised ideally) should have hugh demands from producers such as mobile phone, nokia, etc.

consultancy business - sharing knowledge for revenues

revenue
- incoming calls, (gain consultancy experience and communication skills), phone revenue
- adsense on web site
- paid consultancy, on high charge phone numbers maybe

services on processing electronic content. related