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How are you doing marketing for this? How do you get over the chicken and egg problem? E.g., buyers won't come unless sellers are listing, and sellers won't list unless there are buyers.


Take a look at our landlords about page:

http://www.openrent.co.uk/landlords

We offer a full service (beyond a simple marketplace) to attract our customers (landlords), and overcome the chicken and egg problem by advertising on already popular portals.


The services for landlords are really amazing. Have you considered expanding to the US?


If pg was willing to consider us for YC, we probably would! However, when we applied with the idea last year, we were told the chicken and egg problem was too off-putting.

We would also need to spend some time looking at the US market seriously to see how we would go about it, for now, the UK is 100% our focus.


I was thinking of doing something like this but for niche retail rentals in the US. Could I bounce some questions off of you?


Sure, you can get me on [redacted].

Note - I may not get back to you tonight, but will endeavour to do so in the next 24 hours.




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