January 9th, 2013

With 4M Apartment Rentals Viewed On Its Site, Lovely Is Breaking Free Of Litigious Craigslist And Raising A Series A

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Lovely, the apartment search service that was initially built as a better and easier way of finding available apartment rentals originally listed in the large-but-feature-light Craigslist.org, has now racked up 4 million apartment listings on its site (1 million in the last 30 days) as it tackles the $10 billion residential rental marketĀ as an aggregator of other rental listings services — once… → Read More

November 7th, 2012

In Its First Report Since Going Public, Trulia Posts First Profitable Quarter, Record Revenue

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How are the recent class of tech IPOs faring? Real estate search engine and Zillow competitor, Trulia went public in September, debuting at $22.10 per share (up 30 percent from its initial pricing) with a valuation around $580 million.

Today, Trulia announced its third quarter earnings — its first report as a public company. While results were mixed overall, the company still managed to give… → Read More

October 9th, 2012

Lovely Goes From Craigslist Target To The Kayak Of Apartment Rentals As It Launches Nationwide

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The Craigslist crackdown on usage of its listings data by third parties has had some fairly strong fallout. Some have shut down operations after getting cease & desist orders; some, like 3Taps and PadMapper, are now in court defending themselves on copyright infringement allegations. But here’s news of another taking a third way: Lovely, a site based around a map interface that helps people… → Read More

July 24th, 2009

SimpliSafe security system is inexpensive, transportable

SimpliSafe seems like a pretty simple (get it?) home security system for those of us who value our safety, but not enough to get a professional security system installed and, especially, anyone who lives in an apartment or moves around a lot. → Read More

November 14th, 2007

Apartment dweller: 'The letter forcing me to switch to Comcast is tantamount to an eviction notice'

Wow. This guy really doesn’t like Comcast. I’m certainly not going to be asking Comcast to the Prom anytime soon but this guy is planning on moving out of his apartment thanks to a notice sent to the tenants in his building saying that Comcast will be the only ISP available starting January 1st. → Read More