Rent is my single largest expense every month, an expense that cannot be charged to a credit card for rewards. My motivation is to make every penny work for me.x9200 wrote:So what are your pain points regarding the rental payment?
Hi George, you might be right. Or maybe the problem(s) we face personally aren't mainstream enough to warrant a solution. I guess that's the whole idea of the survey, to validate and ensure we aren't wasting time finding a non-existent/non-critical problem to solve.curiousgeorge wrote:How do you make paying rent "rewarding"? Either the landlord is paying, or the tenant is paying. Either way you have a party that is out of pocket on account of the "rewards".
Sign contract > get landlord account details > set up monthly transfer > forget about it until you move out. Simples.
How are you going to make that a "better experience"?
Sounds to me like you're planning a solution to a problem that doesn't exist...
How your app is going to help you with this?keithwang wrote:Rent is my single largest expense every month, an expense that cannot be charged to a credit card for rewards. My motivation is to make every penny work for me.x9200 wrote:So what are your pain points regarding the rental payment?
How your app is going to help your friend who pays in cash? For some reason you mentioned it so I assumed there would be some connection. What is the connection?keithwang wrote:My friend pays his rent in cash and wants convenience on-the-go, especially when he travels for work. So we are thinking of combining these features (and maybe more) into one app that's better than what banks typically offer.
Good questions. Firstly, we think we can build an app that allows credit card payments (from the tenant to the landlord). The infrastructure is unconventional but not impossible.x9200 wrote:How your app is going to help you with this?keithwang wrote:Rent is my single largest expense every month, an expense that cannot be charged to a credit card for rewards. My motivation is to make every penny work for me.x9200 wrote:So what are your pain points regarding the rental payment?
How your app is going to help your friend who pays in cash? For some reason you mentioned it so I assumed there would be some connection. What is the connection?keithwang wrote:My friend pays his rent in cash and wants convenience on-the-go, especially when he travels for work. So we are thinking of combining these features (and maybe more) into one app that's better than what banks typically offer.
I presume you do online bank transfer via your laptop more than on mobile. That's fair enough, thanks for your feedback.kaseyma wrote:Don't need an app for this.
Can just use online banking to set up a periodic payment (transfer), or if you still want to have control, set-up the landlord's account as a payee for future payments.
Now, I'm curious.keithwang wrote: Secondly, we envision the app to be more convenient than bank apps. Instead of paying cash, a user can pay their landlord with their smartphone; on-the-go. This could have a similar impact to those that travels a lot as we are also thinking of eliminating the typical 2FA SMS-verification process (inhibiting for local data card users).
Exactly my thoughts.x9200 wrote:The only way I could see it happen is via cooperation with the players like MC or Visa similar way they do it for the merchants, but they will unlikely be willing to do this. Any other option (e.g. charging cc to a Paypal acc. and transferring it to the bank account) will incur some extra costs.
You made several salient observationsnakatago wrote:Exactly my thoughts.x9200 wrote:The only way I could see it happen is via cooperation with the players like MC or Visa similar way they do it for the merchants, but they will unlikely be willing to do this. Any other option (e.g. charging cc to a Paypal acc. and transferring it to the bank account) will incur some extra costs.
MC/Visa/Banks not wanting to play ball was one of the reasons Google Wallet didn't take off as it should the first time.
The only way OP could even remotely pull something off is having some identity accounts which adds a cost to operate and would take a lot of bulletproofing to even just convince people to use.
Culturally, in Singapore, some people are still adverse to not using cash (bank transfers are counted as cash)...and that's already taking the big players into account.
This is really creative but I'm not sure what are the incentives to the LL/agent for maintaining an escrow deposit with mePNGMK wrote:You might be onto something if this included an escrow of the deposits. However that would almost certainly require legislative support or a significant reward to the landlord.
I think I can see how this works.
You get the LL to sign up. They are promised an additional $50 per month 'free' on the basis that they must allow the deposit to be held in escrow . You get agents to rent out the apartments you have signed up for $50 more per month than what you're paying the LL. You take the $100 in between as profit and pay your reward points or whatever out of it. You manage the deposit situation contractually.
Actually a decent estate agent could do this AND, given how Singapore LL's are becoming the Ali Baba's we all know, this could be a significant marketing win for a large estate agent (i.e. RayWhite etc).
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