Rental Management

Entrepreneurs know that the key to most great innovation isn't an incremental improvement on the status quo, or a slightly more efficient and optimized implementation of an old spec. As Christensen writes in the infamous Innovators' Dilemma, the real...

How large is the New York apartment broker industry?  We always hear that the non-agency mortgage-backed securities market is a  $800 billion dollar market, based on notional value (that includes CMBS, for the purists).  The whole loans market for...

We are thrilled that so many new visitors have found us through the recent New York Times article.  In fact, for most of the weekend, we were the second most popular piece of news in the entire real estate...

Rent Hop receives very frequent, often daily, updates on the latest apartment availabilities and prices from our landlords.  We've noticed an increase of what many lay-renters  call "No Fee" apartments, even by landlords who would usually charge a fee. What...

Editor’s note: RentHop first released building photos in October 2008. Since then, the platform has updated tangentially with the latest technology to provide renters with the best apartment-searching experience. RentHop is pleased to announce our new Building Photos feature! ...

New York City renters often believe they are receiving a lot of valuable services from apartment brokers, and because of that, they conclude broker fees are both legitimate and well-deserved. At RentHop, we agree that apartment brokers (and their...