Here is the feedback in no particular order. Please add additional comments if you have further suggestions:
- I'd like to see a search summary somewhere on the page that lists the distance of each of the apartments from the location specified in the search. (James G)
- Can you leverage the Google Street View API to show what some of these properties look like from the outside in the map view? (James G)
- Can you include the option to search for pet-friendly apartments? (James G)
- Make sure all the apartments have addresses (Joe H)
- How can I get my Gulf front condo on this site? (Joan D)
- Bug: Go to Ohio Apartments and click on Bedford Heights, it takes you back to the States listings (Jerie G)
- The Map View can be quite "jumpy" and can move independent of holding the left click button down. And the pop-up descriptions seem to appear without an action (blocking part of the map), somewhat difficult to close the pop-ups. (Rick F)
- Populate the map view for neighboring areas. Right now the map loads up a dense area, then as you scroll there are no more listings (Norman W)
- I've been working with a real estate agent in Chicago who created another interesting search engine (http://www.intochicago.com/). The slider bar is pretty slick and something that I haven't seen others do. You should borrow some of that UI (Mark O)
- It would be helpful if you could open links in a new tab or new window so you could easily refer back to map. (Edd H)
- Bug: When I click on listings linked to realtor.com, the host website seems to zero out all of the source data on some of the listings in NYC (Edd H)
- When I log in or click on a different tab (like tips and tricks), etc, it’d be nice if the map view and listing view remembered my latest search so I can go back to it after I’m done browsing around the site. (Claire L)
- In “listing view”, the smallest distance limitator is 5 miles, which is too large for NYC (Claire L)
- Is it possible to enable the businesses around you functionality on google maps once I’ve found a listing I like so I can see how far the closest supermarket / school etc is? (Clarie L)
- I thought some of the banner ads were a little too prominent (Garrett L)
- My natural tendency is to search through alphabetical listings by column instead of by row, the way you have it displayed. (Garrett L)
- It would be great to choose the categories more widely. Price: allow people to enter min/max values rather than just picking predefined ranges Bedrooms: allow multiple selections, ie. 1 AND 2 bedroom units Same for bathrooms (Marius R)
- I would really recommend is allowing the user to select bedrooms, baths, distance, etc. and then having them click on a "go" button. I say this b/c otherwise the map tries to reload after you change one of the fields and this takes some time (Andy M)
- And then about 20 things from Joe B that I can't even list here (Thanks Joe!)
And then, our favorites:
- Its actually the best rental comp tool I’ve ever seen. Better then Zillow and Truilla (George R)
- I was so frustrated by apartments.com after I clicked over to there, that I had to come back to Rent Jungle (Brendan K)
