Overview
Pad4Pad is your one stop shop for all your real estate needs. From browsing homes for sale, searching for foreclosures, or
planning your next vacation swap, Pad4Pad does it all. In addition, Pad4Pad can help you with Permament House Swaps, The hottest
trend in real estate.
Permanent House Swapping matches you with another home seller that has what you want and wants what you have. This new strategy can help
you sell your home even in a depressed housing market. Don’t get trapped by the old in the box thinking. Use our extensive tools section
to help you price your property, market it to the masses, maximize your return and increase the opportunity to sell with
our "Swap Listing". Your buyer is just around the corner and Pad4Pad can help bring you together.
For more information on the following
- Foreclosures: check out the Foreclosures section in 'How It Works'
- Vacation Swaps: check out the Vacation Swaps section in 'How It Works'
- Permament House Swaps: check out our Real Estate Guide or the House Swap section in 'How It Works'
- Listing Feeds: check out our Feeds Overview or the Feeds section in 'How It Works'
Still have questions? Use our Help Center to ask our service center a question or search our FAQ database.
General Listings
Regardless if you are looking for a permanent house swap or just trying to sell your home, Pad4Pad has a several listing options to fit
your needs. FREE general listings provide your home exposure to thousands of visitors every month looking to purchase
real estate. We receive many listings via our feeds from brokers, agents, and listing publishers. If your property is already in
our database you can claim the listing. Once the listing is claimed you will be able to edit the listing. FREE
general listings can upgraded to a Swap Listing at any time.
General listings will show up in general searches and house swap searches. General listings will stay active until you delete it.
Upgrading to a Swap Listing will give you more search options, allow you to make swap offers,
and accept/reject swap offers.
Below is an exmaple of the information displayed for a listing on Pad4Pad
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House Swap Listings
In todays depressed housing market many home sellers are looking for creative ways to market their properties. Realizing the
market is flooded with homes for sale and limited buyers, a new strategy to turn home sellers into buyers is permanent house swapping.
Permanent house swapping does NOT mean you are trading mortgages or trading payments. Permanent house swapping is ONLY a marketing
strategy to find home sellers that have what you want and want what you have. Through Pad4Pads extensive database of house swappers,
we will attempt to match you up with potential swaps. Once matched, you follow the normal real estate sales and purchase process.
The only difference is with house swaps, both properties will need to close on the same day. Get more information on
House Swap.
Pricing
Free General Listing
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Add as many properties as you like at no cost.
Free listings do not allow you to search for swaps. Free Listings will show up in other users swap searches if the 'What you are looking for' information is filled out.
Swap Listing
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1 time flat fee of $20.00 per listing. Listing stays on Pad4Pad until you delete it.
A swap listing has all the features of a free listing plus you can search for house swaps, propose swaps, and accept/reject swap offers from other pad4pad users.
Multiple listing packages for Swap listings
- Bronze Package. Up to 5 listings $80.00
- Sliver Package. Up to 10 listings $140.00
- Gold Package. Up to 20 listings $240.00
- Platinum Package. Up to 50 listings $500.00
Others
If you are part of a group that lists large numbers or bulk properties, please contact our sales department for large group pricing.Vacation Swap Listings
Vacation Swap Listings are new to Pad4Pad. This type of listing allows users to search for Vacations Swaps. A Vacation Swap
is an vacation alternative to reduce expenses in which two families agree to swap homes for a vacation. "You stay in my house while
I stay in yours".
To take advantage of this feature you must enroll or join the Vacation Exchange. Once you have registered on Pad4Pad, Select the
Enroll link on the member navigation. Once you have enrolled you can add as many listings as you like, search for vacations swaps,
and contact owners to coordinate a vacation swap.
Pricing
The Vacation Exchange is FREE. Membership is valid for 1 year. After a year you will need to re-join the Vacation Exchange.
Foreclosures
Pad4Pad has partnered with RealtyTrac to offer the most comprehensive list of home foreclosures in the country. All you have to do is input the city and state to see the most up to date listings that have entered or are about to enter the foreclosure process. This is a great opportunity to purchase the home of your dreams for pennies on the dollar. Separate membership required.
Feeds
What is a feed
- Feeds are best suited for large internet savy brokers
- A feed is an automated way to push your listings into Pad4Pad.
- Your company generates xml compliant with the Pad4Pad feed format or the Zillow Interchange Format.
- Feeds are a great way to advertise your listings to a larger audience.
How it Works
- Your company provides a xml feed accessible over the internet
- We read the listings in your feed and automatically add/update the listings in Pad4Pad
- The listings from your feed are viewable from searches initiated by our visitors
- The listing agent/owner can claim the listing in Pad4Pad and leverage all the functionality we provide
Feed Options
Pad4Pad is dedicated to providing convenient options for brokers, real estate agents/agencies and property listing publishers to list their properties on Pad4Pad. There are 2 options in feeding listings to Pad4Pad. For frequently asked questions regarding feeds, see our Feed FAQs.I. FREE
You can feed your listings to Pad4Pad for Free! It is as simple as creating a feed compliant with our XML feed specification then submit your feed online for us to process. Once you submit your feed one of our technicians will review and approve the feed. Once approved, we will automatically process your feed weekly.
Listings created in Pad4Pad from a Free Feed can be claimed by the owner or real estate agent. Once claimed you can take advantage of our swap search features. All listings, regardless how they were submitted to our site, will show in "Homes for Sale" searches.
II. For Fee
For a fee based on the number of estimated listings you can feed all of your companies listings to Pad4Pad. Paying customers have access to the broker module in Pad4Pad. The broker module allows you to see all your listings associated to your company in one place, Add/Update/Delete users for your company, and take advantage of our Swap Search functionality.
For questions regarding rates contact our sales team
For general questions regarding feeds contact our support team
Ready to get started? Click HERE to submit your feed.
Have more questions? Take a look at the Feed FAQ page and the Feed Specification page
Community
The Pad4Pad community is a free feature which includes Blogs, Question and Answer forum, and a Professional Directory.
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