It's easier to live and find a room

Rent to find a room is the vast majority of office workers experienced things, in addition to store intermediary, 58 with the city, net and other channels, there is no better way. Love to live to provide a combination of maps to screen the availability of the way, so that more intuitive and efficient room search.

"1-5 years of graduate white-collar, need to rent, they will go to find a house?" "In and love the founder of Gao Wei chat, he asked me," We do not like intermediaries, 58, the market in the personal availability and few, watercress and local BBS also have no good way to show. Where are we going to find it? ”

Yes, in the north and other cities such as demand for rental housing so strong today, there is still no one can make people comfortable to find the right house. I think every time I want to move, in the watercress on the various rental groups to find dizziness, in 58 market above the bad intermediary gas jump situation, still lingering fear.

And love to live, is to solve the demand is born: it is based on the map, intuitive way to help users filter information, free from the traditional list model of the bad experience, can make users more comfortable browsing information, more efficient to find the right house.

The main modules of love are "looking for a Room" and "releasing the House". In the "Find room" module, it provides a map, a list of two ways, where the "map" mode is particularly commendable.

In map mode, you can choose to "go to work to find a room" or "Subway to find a room". The default "go to Work room" will let you enter your company address, and then take this address as the center, the surrounding map display. On this map, you can do a variety of things to filter the listings.

For example, "box select Room" function, just click the "box Select button" button or directly right, you can on the map to rent the area of the picture box, and then click "View Rental List", it will jump to this box all listings page. Click on the "Bus", the map will show all the subway, bus routes and sites, click on the site or picture frame, you can see the corresponding traffic information, as well as the surrounding listings.

In addition, on the basis of the map, you can also do a variety of operations to get a better browsing experience. such as the "Night View" option to dilute the map background, highlight the traffic, housing and other information, and "information map" can be used "aggregation" and "distribution" of the way to show the number of houses, the former easy to see the entire area of the number of listings, the latter will be a separate display of various listings, to facilitate intuitive viewing areas of concern rental situation; will be based on different areas to arrive at the company's time cost, different colors of the label, such as white for 15 minutes, yellow for 30 minutes.

Isn't it enough to have a map? Then add the Filter box. At the top of the map, there will be a rental, rent, huxing, decoration, landlord and many other conditions of the filter box, according to your choice of conditions, it will be directly on the map filtered out of the listing, further narrowing the scope. The way the subway is looking for a house is basically the same, except that the map will show only the listings near the subway line you chose.

Even if you don't like map patterns, there's a lot of innovation in traditional list mode. In addition to the richer tags, it also makes a small box of the map embedded in the list page, you can enter the address or box selection, the system will find you near the eligible listings. The point is, you can choose the "small picture + title" list similar to 58, the market, but if you are tired of this look at the headlines to find pictures and describe the serious lack of emotional behavior, you can also choose the "big picture + keyword" Waterfall flow form-like beautiful said or Mushroom street, very convenient.

Even in the details of the rental information page, it is also embedded with traffic maps and surrounding life map, and some even provide search Street View-I have to say, love is really a map and pictures of the way to use the ultimate. In addition, it has a lot of intimate small features, such as subscriptions, it can be in the selected area of the availability of information changes, you are prompted automatically, or your rental needs map to share on the microblog.

Although the experience and interaction to do a very big optimization, but from 58, the market for many years as a day of the page can be seen, for such a local Service site, experience is important, but whether there is enough supply and demand information, is the key. Now the main listing information of love is still from the market, 58 and so on, but as the beginning of the article said, if love and live really want to filter out the bad intermediary information mixed in these sites, it has to open up its own source of information-a cleaner, more trustworthy source of information.

Gao Wei told me that the progress in this area is that they have a very important module on the new line--release listings. It is mainly targeted at individual homeowners. In order to prevent the intermediary to fall, they also made strict restrictions on publishing permissions, such as each month can only send a message, each release need to verify the phone number.

In fact, the background of the release of the housing experience is also very good, compared to 58, the market, love to live more emphasis on the room for the unit to sublet (of course, also support the whole rent). For example, the landlord rented a two-bedroom, it will require you to fill in each room information, if one of the rooms already have tenants, it will also need to provide the tenant's gender, age, occupation, and according to the living room, bathroom and other public areas to upload different photos. "We are, after all, ' love to live together ', many of our users are also based on rent-oriented, roommate's basic situation for them to choose the House is also very important information." "Gao Wei said.

However, in fact, the release of this module also means that the love to live from a browsing information tool, become a docking of rental and supply both sides of the vertical platform. As a new website, how can we do not only attract housing, but also to ensure the purity of the platform? Gao Wei thought of another way: to develop a tenant.

"Now, who has the bulk of the rental house?" Not in the landlord's hands, nor in the intermediary, but in the tenant's hands. They know best when the House will be free. Take watercress For example, it has about 3 million sublet information-or the tenant wants to move out, or the roommate wants to move. Gao Wei said, "We just want to do a market where the landlord agrees, the tenant should go, such as due or temporary move, can find a new tenant, and then get a commission." ”

Gao Wei repeatedly stressed that these people can not be referred to as intermediaries, nor is the so-called two landlords, they are only to help their own expired or to resell the house to rent out, and then charge a one-time service charge. In fact, he said, landlords and tenants are well suited to such an agreement: "Once the contract expires, the tenant moved away, the landlord himself to find a new tenant, their own trouble, to the intermediary not at ease-but if the tenant would like to help find it?" At the same time, most of the tenants are not going to help their landlords to find renewals, but they are not obligated to do so-but what if they can make a little money? ”

Love and hope is to open the market. The tenants can charge a small fee, but they don't get a lump-sum-they still earn the cost of the release link. "The basic charge is 30 yuan, because we will provide additional services, such as we will provide the call service, both sides can through our server for relay calls, protect privacy, also can choose what kind of people can see their published information." We will also join the social networking link, so that publishers can have a basic audit of the person who asks for a lease. "Gao Wei said.

Although there are only 3 people in the team, there are a lot of Gao Wei their ideas about love. "Our focus is on life and socializing, but it needs a load, and this is a rental." "Gao Wei told us.

"We will also do a special search for roommates module. If a few people choose the area and the conditions are matched, we can recommend them to rent together; or if you see a room, we'll remind you who else has visited the house to see if you want to be roommates. This is social networking in the rental process, and a little further, social networking after renting a house, such as finding someone to live in a neighborhood or a mile or so, might resemble a watercress group. But this is the next thing to do. ”

Small note: Combined with the map of the search room model, in addition to the introduction of the love of this article, there is a site called Lok Wo, the same is through the map to provide different ways to simplify the search room.