Off-Campus Housing 101 is owned
and operated by Ecom Media Group, Inc (EMG) of Kelowna, BC. EMG
has over 6 years experience in running off-campus housing websites
for top Canadian, U.S. and Australian colleges and universities.
Our listing service is designed to help you find your new home
quickly and easily. Our rental listing service provides users
with the maximum amount of information about available rental
properties while minimizing the time required finding suitable
housing. Off-Campus Housing 101 is part of The My Ideal Home Network
which is comprised of a number of rental listing websites that
feature properties across North America and Australia. No matter
where you are attending school or moving to after graduation,
we want to be your source for rental property information.
The Internet has presented itself as an excellent vehicle for
distributing comprehensive rental information complete with extra
features such as photographs, virtual tours, mapping and driving
instructions. The refined search feature allows you to be as specific
as you would like, helping you find a new home that is just right
for you. Best of all, searching our database is absolutely FREE.
Providing Off Campus Housing
Solutions for Canadian and USA Schools:
OffCampusHousing101.com (OCH101) is a complete leading edge internet-based
off-campus housing solution. This "FREE" service compliments all
off-campus and commuter programs within the school environment.
Providing a valuable off-campus housing solution for your students,
faculty, and staff helps to improve auxiliary services for the
entire school community.
OCH101 has been providing off-campus housing solutions since 1998.
We have worked with over 60 schools across Canada and the US.
We are members of the National Commuter Association and have presented
at ACPA, UNT's Drive In Commuter Conference and WACUHO-I. We continuously
incorporate features to improve and enhance our off-campus housing
product to ensure that each school receives exactly what they
require. In March of 2005 we received honorable mention for the
Commission 17: Commuter Students & Adult Learners Outstanding
Commuter Program at ACPA. Our partnered school website range in
size: our smallest school has 10 to 15 listings and our largest
school can have over 1000 listings.
- Prospective students experience a complete
off-campus housing solution.
- Site
is completely branded to the school and the school is in control.
- Completely FREE solution for the school.
- School becomes a part of an international network
of off-campus housing.
- Low administration requirements from school
- Complete turn-key solution.
- Goodwill generated in local community.
- Easy and convenient management tools are provided
as part of the off-campus housing solution.
- FREE training and assistance for all staff.
- Site specific and landlord statistics.
- Can provide a revenue stream for off-campus
housing departments.
- The off-campus housing solution can also host
apartment guides, local information, housing fair information,
commuter student information, and school specific items.
- Software can create classified listings for
the school newspaper if desired.
- Internet based - No software to load.
- Always FREE for students to search the database.
- Students access a large real-time database
of student housing vacancies in the area of the school.
- Current and prospective students have world-wide
access to listings via the Internet.
- Listings provide students considerable information
about available housing, including photos and text, extended
contact information and property features.
- New automated rental alert system to help students
find suitable housing.
- Searchable database - searchable by conditions
such as number of bedrooms, price and type of housing.
- Site is branded to your school, thus maintaining
a congruent student experience.
- Automated mapping assists students in locating
listed properties.
- Internet based - No software to load.
- First listing is FREE to allow a full service
trial.
- Landlords add and manage their own listings
in real-time from any Internet connection protected by a personalized
password.
- The landlord may login at anytime to his/her
account to add, modify, de-list, re-list or view their stats
and billing history.
- Automated email system to allow tracking of
all prospective clients.
- Landlords are provided with valuable statistics
for each listing (activity tracking).
- Landlords may enter unlimited text and photos.
- Time-wasting casual inquiries are minimized
by comprehensive listings.
- Property listings take just minutes to place
through a simple Internet-based process - This is a one time
procedure.
- Rented listings are archived for future re-listing.
- Automated mapping assists prospective residents
in locating listed properties.