“Some golfers think they can only improve their game on the course when warm weather hits,” said Sadler, instructor of over 7,000 lessons.  “But when you practice at home the repetition can easily help you improve your stroke and impact your total game.”

Become a ‘Putt Master’ in your apartment with these three tips:

• Set Up Shop
  You don’t need to hit the ball 40 ft. to develop solid technique.  Buy a small 4 x 6 carpet with a geometric design.  The shape of the carpet aids with alignment and the small space is a trick that really forces you to focus on control.
• Lights Out
  Dim the lights.  Rather than relying on a visual aid, a dim setting hones subtle body movements allowing you to find an ingrained rhythm and feel.
• Gamble Your Game
  Place a poker chip a few feet away and aim to roll the ball over the poker chip.  The cling of the poker chip provides instant auditory feedback so you’ll know if your mechanics are off (or on!)

To find your next apartment or to connect with other golf enthusiasts in your building, visit www.RentSocial.com, “Like” us on Facebook and “Follow” us on Twitter.

About Scott Sadler
Scott Sadler, PGA Class-A Instructor, teaches a series of body movements to create one complete in sync body motion– the golf swing!  His ability to translate the complex mechanics of the golf swing creates a relaxed learning atmosphere encouraging natural body fluidity.  A graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign – Urbana, and certified by the PGA of America as a Golf Professional, Sadler has also earned PGA certification as a Golf Psychology Instructor.  He finished in the Top 5% of PGA Business School and recently completed the PGA Advanced Professional Training Program.  Connect with Scott at scottsadlerpga.com

Thank you for choosing RentSocial.com for your apartment search. Our team is focused on continuously improving your experience to make the apartment quest easier. Continue to check RentSocial for new innovative features and more apartment options. Our site launched with 5,000 properties and we now offer nearly 100,000 apartments. Thank you for being a part of this!

Let’s take a minute and highlight the greatest moments of RentSocial’s first year.

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We threw a launch party in our hometown Chicago. Go team!

Our team traveled to NYC and was interviewed by the media, which then led to more media!

The Free Rent for a Year sweeptstakes was a success!
The lucky winner received $10,000 & two runners up received $1,000.
We love apartment dwellers!

RentSocial team building in what else? RentSocial t-shirts!

We celebrated the Dog Days of Summer with Pet Expert Steve Dale. Check out the tips!

 
Here’s to the first of many years to come. Cheers!

We are now a real estate listing publisher in the ListHub Network.  ListHub is the leading syndicator of real estate listings, helping to expand our nationwide rental coverage by allowing brokers to add more than 70,000 listings to RentSocial.com.

“The driving force behind creating RentSocial was to build an apartment rental site that didn’t look and feel like all the others,” said Andy Hamilton, CTO and SVP of RentSocial. “We’re applauded for our fresh approach and inventive user experience, but the one knock is always quantity of content. ListHub helps us have the ability to receive listing content direct from the source. We now offer nearly 100,000 rental listings across the country.”

The new listings include a variety of rentals such as single family homes, apartment communities, and small to large buildings. Designed to improve the process, renters will search on an easy-to-use pinboard.

Potential renters have an intuitive user experience; data is updated daily, only including actively marketable listings.

RentSocial now features rental listings from individual owners, property management companies and real estate brokerage firms.

To learn about how to list your apartments on RentSocial, visit www.rentsocial.com, “Like” us on Facebook and “Follow” us on Twitter.

Grab the morning paper - It's apartment hunting time!

It certainly isn’t your grandmother’s apartment search experience anymore. Not even close. You can imagine how the process used to be. Cup of freshly brewed coffee, a donut, the Sunday paper, all while making wide circles over ads that looked interesting. You’d gather up your list and head out on Monday morning, hit the streets, drive to some of your favorites or maybe you’d even pick up the phone and call around.

Trouble with that approach, as we now know, is the limited amount of information you had at your fingertips. Newspaper descriptions manipulated by marketing departments have a tendency to be predictable, loaded with too many descriptive phrases (an inordinately quaint living space!) and certainly doesn’t fill in the information you’d really like to know. It required a lot of work and effort on your part to narrow down your choices.

The days of rummaging through these machines for the last copy are fading.

Fast forward a whole bunch of years and the internet comes along and search engines and coffee holders using CD trays. Boom. Sunday mornings now become pajama days while you surf the internet and dig into information about your future home. Gone are vending machine style racks from street corners. Print magazines and circling newspaper ads with your pen have been declared dead.

Still though, even with new ways of finding an apartment, your level of apartment searching geekiness will vary. Some just aren’t willing to go the extra mile to become a master apartment searcher. These people just stick to sorting through gallons of ugly Craigslist ads. Here’s how you can raise your Apartment Searching Geek Meter:

Get Off Craigslist.

You can do better by NOT browsing boring Craigslist ads.

Craigslist was designed to allow a person to transact business with another person. Then, marketers and businesses got involved and have mucked up the works with SPAM, multiple postings, and bad content. Honestly people, it’s hard to understand why anyone wants to root through these lame headlines (FREE RENT SPECIAL TODAY!) and see boring Times New Roman style descriptions. RentSocial provides a much better experience, and is more intuitive and much better looking.  A lot of apartment sites pull from Craigslist but at least you wont be forced to spend your time ON Craigslist, an ugly time waster.

Social Media!

Who better to understand what type of place you’d be interested in moving in to then your friends? It could be as easy as asking your friends advice as a status update or by using Facebook’s new search graph. Ask someone on Twitter where the best places to live in Orlando are and someone can tell you. Search check-ins on Foursquare to find those happening places that people are checking in to.

Mobile Apps

Everything is mobile these days. Who doesn’t own a smartphone? Yelp has a great mobile application that can tell you about apartment complexes near your current location. Lots of apartment internet services have their own mobile apps. RentSocial has a great mobile application that can help you in your search, which can take place on your phone, at a restaurant, while your wife is asking you about something. Really – it happens.

Check Your Review Sites

After you’ve narrowed down your search, search Google for reviews about that apartment complex. Besides RentSocial, Apartment Ratings is another popular site to find ratings for most apartment complexes. The reviews aren’t always accurate but you can get a pretty good picture about an apartment complex after reading some of them or you can be entertained. Seriously – some are really funny.

Use a Bookmarking Tool

Writing things down is so 2000. Now in your apartment search as you go across the web, it’s easy to Pin a site you like or use a service like Clipix to store your favorite sites in one spot. Plus you can share your collected bookmarks on your favorite social networking platforms to get people’s opinions. So geeky.

With 180,000 neighborhoods and 100,000 cities nationwide featured on RentSocial, we can help you discover and explore some of your cities’ best.  Browse ratings and reviews on anything from local schools to the best pizza joints.  First city up for review, our good ole’ hometown – Chicago:

**Average rent price based on 1 bedroom apartment

 
New renter, transplant, or lifers – whatever level – share your experiences today!  Reviews help everyone.

Aaron has sold over $200 million in real estate assets and has managed a portfolio of over 1600 multi-family units, working for several large property management companies as well as for Exit Realty and Keller Williams Realty. Recently, he has focused his efforts on using his breadth of experience to act as consultant for a variety of real estate businesses, including individual residential brokers across the country, national property management firms, and real estate technology start-ups. Find him on https://twitter.com/aaronwoodman and http://about.me/aaronwoodman.

Aaron has sold over $200 million in real estate assets and has managed a portfolio of over 1600 multi-family units, working for several large property management companies as well as for Exit Realty and Keller Williams Realty. Recently, he has focused his efforts on using his breadth of experience to act as consultant for a variety of real estate businesses, including individual residential brokers across the country, national property management firms, and real estate technology start-ups. Find him on https://twitter.com/aaronwoodman and http://about.me/aaronwoodman.

1.  Make a budget
First step is to write down how much you want to spend entertaining and on what items.  If you are willing to splurge a little more on food then cut back on decorations.  Try and stay within your predetermined amount of money.  The first rule to sticking to a budget is to create one.

2.  Get a head count
Send out invites to everyone that you plan on having over.  This can be as simple as creating a Facebook event or sending a text message.  Remind people a few days before that you are trying to get a final head count and use that number to help with the rest of the planning.

3.  Save on food
Once you have a head count of how many people will be coming you can head to the grocery store. Make a grocery list and search for coupons before you head out.  If you have a large group of people coming, it may be cheaper to buy your food items in bulk.

4.  Save on decorating
When it comes to decorating for a gathering the best way to save money is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Reduce the amount of money spent on decorations by doing something simple.  Reuse items from around your house to create something new.  Recycle bottles, cans or jars to give new life to old items.

To find your perfect apartment for holiday hosting, sign up today at RentSocial.com