Rental Marketplace RadPad Settling into New Digs

After a troubled year, online rental marketplace RadPad is moving in with LandlordStation.

After acquiring RadPad, the company unites both ends of the rental market – renters and landlords – under one roof. LandlordStation CEO Copley Broer says he expects this will be a differentiator in a market boasting many players who handle individual pieces of it well.

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RentMoola Deal Signals Major Upheaval In The Rental World

In the world of payment facilitators, it’s hard to envision a segment more in need of payments updates than apartment rentals—one of the last nature preserves for the American Check. A deal announced on Tuesday (Dec. 1) between RentMoola and MasterCard is a very optimistic sign.

The deal itself is simple, but the potential implications are anything but. The deal positions MasterCard as RentMoola’s preferred payment brand in the U.S. and Canada, which that tenants and condo owners get an unspecified preferred rate “as well as (again, unspecified) rewards with exclusive offers.” This arrangement will include MasterPass “in early 2016,” which presumably means any time before July. Replacing checks with payment cards is a step in the right direction, but where rental payments can really shake things up is when the process bypasses the landlord.

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