Metrorent.com to Offer RealBird Online Maps to Apartment Seekers

MetroRent, the Bay Area and Los Angeles' premier rental and roommate listing service leader partners with RealBird Inc. to add online maps to rental listings

Redwood City, CA & Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 9, 2005 -- In a deal that will give apartment and room renters better tools for locating and evaluating rental options, leading online rental portal site Metrorent.com today announced an alliance with RealBird, Inc., a leading provider of online maps and GIS tools tailored for the real estate industry.

Metrorent.com is the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles leading rentals marketplace, bringing renters and landlords together online. The site features thousands of available rental listings at a time.

RealBirds service includes street, aerial and topographical maps and various visualized data layers, with interactive hotspots that can be linked to photos, websites or virtual tours, resulting in a superior online rental shopping experience.

Renters have little time and much to see before they can decide where to live. Online tools to make this apartment/room hunting process more efficient and painless is right in line with our mission," said John McWeeny, CEO of Metrorent.com. Not only do renters have access to photos, virtual tours and comprehensive list of facilities and details, but with RealBirds services, theyll now also have access to aerial photos that will provide them with a better sense of the neighborhoods layout."

Gabriel Gross, founder of RealBird says: We are truly very pleased that Metrorent, a premier brand in the rental industry, chose to work with us. This deal will benefit all parties -- renters and landlords, Metrorent and Realbird."

About RealBird.

RealBird Inc. (http://www.realbird.com) is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. The company provides a unique, hosted mapping and GIS solution to the real estate and travel and entertainment industry. By integrating various types of maps with real estate relevant, pictorial data layers, the RealBird service becomes a valuable complement to any real estate and travel website. A free, sponsored version is available to brokers and travel and entertainment sites with high web-traffic.

RealBird is a trademark of Realbird Inc.

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