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1. A computer implemented method for conducting real estate rental transactions, comprising:
(a) providing on a server computer system an online listing for a real estate rental, said online listing being accessible by client devices operated by prospective tenants over a communications network, said online listing providing information on a real estate property to be rented; (b) receiving, at the server computer system, an offer and a rental application for the real estate rental from each of a plurality of prospective tenants, each offer indicating a rent amount the prospective tenant is willing to pay for the real estate rental; (c) providing a live online offer board for the real estate rental on the server computer system accessible by the client devices operated by the prospective tenants, said live online offer board displaying the rent amount of each offer received for the rental property or the total number of offers received for the rental property, said live online offer board being dynamically updated with each new offer received by the server computer system from prospective tenants; (d) selecting a prospective tenant whose offer is to be accepted from the plurality of prospective tenants based at least in part on the offer and the rental application of the prospective tenant; and (e) notifying the prospective tenant whose offer is to be accepted. |
