Zillow Rental Manager and Syndication from another site

[Craig Cude]

I used to use Buildium to manage my rental houses, and then I switched to Tenant Cloud to save money (only have 5 rentals and didn't need to pay $500+ per year).  It worked great at first, until Zillow started charging money for syndication.  Now, I must manually email Zillow to set up the syndication, wait for a response, and I've lost automation between Zillow and Tenant Cloud. I.e., if someone responds to a Zillow ad, it doesn't go to Tenant Cloud for me to respond, set up a tenant screening, or manage applications.  Also, you can't put a listing link within the Zillow ad (they'll scrub it).  Has anyone cracked this nut?  It's a real Sh*t show now, and very frustrating to manage properties through one portal, but still take advantage of Zillow's vast marketing network.  I feel like it's Zillow's way to forces out the smaller companies and further dominate the market.  Any way to have a symbiotic relationship between your management software and Zillow's advertising power, or are we destined to have to switch completely to Zillow Rental Manager?

[Dave Spooner]

@Craig Cude I can speak from experience that Zillow is making it difficult to continue syndicating. I would not be surprised if they entirely sunset that offering in the near future. I would echo what @John Warren said and encourage you to try out other platforms. We've seen a lot of success with Facebook Marketplace recently. We also have a great relationship with Apartments.com.

I know finding renters is a pain, but I wouldn't structure your entire management system around it. There are other places to find renters than Zillow! (or continue to list manually when needed)