Your best source for locating your dream property or rental space in Eastern and South Africa

How to add a rental listing

Now that you have an account and have purchased points for a listing, you can add a new listing.

  • If you are not already logged in, you must click on the Login link in the upper right hand corner of the page
  • Type in your username and password
  • Click the Log in button

You can see the number of points you have purchased under "User points".

Fill out as much information as you can. Now we will go through some of the unique features of the rental listing form. Fields with the small red star are required.

You may ignore the "Sold or rented?" section when you first add a listing. When it is sold or rented, you can edit the listing and click the yes radio button.

The "Title" field is very important because it will be the first information displayed to the viewer. Try to give a concise explanation of the property and the aspects you want to highlight.

In the Property type, Utilities included and Amenities fields you can select more than answer at once.

You do this by holding down the Control key on your keyboard while you click on each additional answer.

In the City field, you will notice that if you start to type the first letters of a common city, the entire name of the city will appear in a bar immediately below. Instead of typing the rest of the city, you can just click on the bar.

The Title, Rent and Description are the three items that will display while people are browsing the listings, so it is important to add a description.

For the Square footage and Rent fields, please do not use any commas, dollar signs or other symbols or letters. Use only numbers. Any special instructions should go in the Description field.

Use the map to choose the location of your property.

The four arrows will move the map from north to south and east to west.
The plus and minus signs will zoom the map in and out.
You can also move the map by clicking on it and dragging your mouse around.

You can also click on a point to zoom in to that point.
If you zoom in far enough, you might lose the map image. Sometimes the Hybrid image is able to zoom in farther than the maps. Hybrid shows the Satellite image of the area, but with the country boundaries.

Click the Hybrid button to see if the Satellite map will show an image. Once you choose Hybrid, you can often see a satellite image for the city and you can zoom in further or move the map around.

When you have chosen a location that satisfies you, scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Notice that the map also automatically inserts a Latitude and Longitude when you click on the map.

  • If you wish to add a photo, you may do that now

Please note that our software will resize your photo to display properly, but that will take a long time if your photo has a large file size. We recommend uploading photos with a 1 megabyte or less file size.

  • Click the Browse... button

The File Upload dialog box appears. Locate and select the photo you wish to upload.

  • Click the Open button
  • Now click the Update button

You may add more photos by clicking on the Browse button again. Only the last one you add will display next to the title and description of the property when people are browsing, but the other pictures will show when they click on the property for more information.

  • When you are done editing your listing, click the Preview button at the bottom of the page to see what it looks like.
  • Review your listing and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
  • Click the submit button

Your listing is now complete. You can scroll down to see what your listing looks like.

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