By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

The Internet is the perfect vehicle for aggregating information for those disseminating and those consuming that information. However, as myriad startups demonstrate everyday finding a niche that will bring user back over and over is the hard part. Usually, when a site does heed that call, it is almost so simple that you want to say, “why didn’t I think of that.”

The newly launched Rentjungle.com based in Pittsburgh is just such a site. The concept is simple, but it is in the execution that it succeeds. If you are looking to rent an apartment this site should be your first stop.

The site has more listings than any other online site, and its innovative technology shows you every available listing on a user-friendly map. You instantly know where each vacancy is located and what’s nearby: parks, shopping, ultra hip watering holes. Rentjungle.com works much like Google in that it scours the Internet and pulls together apartment listings from a variety of sites and puts the listings on a single results page.

RentJungle.com launched on June 1, 2009 and within four weeks had experienced nearly 1000 unique daily visitors though word-of-mouth advertising only. Behind its success is Rick Ferris, a real estate broker with over 30 years experience in residential and commercial realty. He founded RentJungle.com to fill a real void in the online real estate market by offering a simple, easy-to-use directory and one-stop-shop destination for leasers.

On the site you will find listings from all the major apartment websites. You then click through for full information. Then, whether you need a mover or guidelines for negotiating your first lease, the site is full of articles and resources to help you along. From help with roommates to renter’s insurance, they have it all.

Resources about locating, leasing, moving and decorating a new apartment can also be found on RentJungle.com. The site features both the most complete and user-friendly listing of vacancies on the web, as well as articles on everything from down payments to what to consider when signing a lease.

RentJungle.com also has launched an apartment search and sharing application that is first of its kind in the apartment industry. You can you search for apartments using our Facebook Apartment App without even leaving the Facebook site. You can share apartments and invite your friends to comment. And it is all free.

The Apartment Blog on the site features such pertinent articles as “How much security deposit should you pay” and “Setting up your new apartment’s utilities”.

So if you are looking for an apartment, want to see or if you are overpaying on your current apartment, check out RentJungle.com.

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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

When I was in college dealing with bills was a major headache. We had one roommate who never had any money and was always late with getting it in. Also, no one in our house wanted the chore of collecting every month and keeping track of all of the house’s expenses.

To help with that chore comes Beezang.com, a new site out of India, launched in August 2009 and currently in alpha.

Beezang.com is a free, simple to use web application that helps people manage and keep track of bills they split with friends, roommates and office colleagues. You can use Beezang.com to stay on the top of your apartment shared expenses with your roommate, you can also track bills associated with weekend get away trips.

The site does one thing and does it good. The folks at Beezang.com have worked hard on the usability so that its users do not have to spend hours figuring out how to use the app. They are working towards constantly improving the application.

You can also track debts and informal IOUs using Beezang.com, and it helps you know where you are spending your money and it analyses your spending habits.

Starting in December of 2009, the site added some extra features. You can now enter your personal bills by clicking on ‘Add Bill‘ tab on the side navigation bar and then by clicking the ‘Add Personal Expense‘ tab, you can enter the bill by filling in some simple details and assigning a category.

They have also added a new tab on the Home Page titled ‘Personal Expense‘ . This tab shows you a neat pie chart that gives you an idea about where you have spent your money in the current month. If you want to dig further into the details, just click on “More Details” and you will be able to see the data and your spending pattern of the last three months.

There is a demo video on the site, so check it out and give it a try.

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