Rental Syndication Service Now Offers Video Content Free of Charge to Customers

By Erika Schnitzer, Associate EditorGrover Beach, Calif.—RentShout, an online rental marketing service that allows property managers to create syndicated online advertisements, has launched a rental video creation to provide managers increased online visibility. (Click here for MHN’s coverage of RentShout’s launch.)“These videos receive hundreds of views from these video portals and oftentimes show up in the top of Google organic rental searches,” notes Misty Lackie, CEO of Go Smart Solutions LLC, the company that created RentShout and that provides self-serve advertising solutions.The new feature will automatically create a property video from customers’ rental listing photos on RentShout.com, which will be optimized for renter search and advertised on video portals such as YouTube, Viddler and Revver.“These videos are a great way to showcase an apartment complex giving renters a visual of the property.  In addition it gives property managers more exposure, increasing their leads,” Lackie tells MHN.  The new video feature does not require extra effort or add any cost.RentShout customers can create online listing ads for their rental properties by adding photos and filling in basic listing details. With the launch of the video creation feature, the photos are automatically transformed into web-quality videos that are broadcast across the Internet. The videos come with varied photo frame transitions, a choice of background music and a final “Sale Slide” that directs prospects to contact the property.According to Lackie, since RentShout’s launch in May, over 300 property managers and owners have signed up to advertise their rentals.