| Feature |
TMM Housing Rental Services Website |
The Other Housing Rental Services Websites |
1. Information Integrity and Quality |
．Content-rich information with assorted fields for data collection
．Information verified with landlords to ensure its quality
．Records of invalid or untrue information, together with reward
reporting system to help trace bad landlords or house of poor
quality. |
．Rough content with few fields for data collection
．Information not verified
．Invalid and untrue information from landlords or housing rental
agencies |
| 2. Information Security and Assurance |
．Verified information of both landlords and tenants to ensure
quality
．Traceable records of poor-quality tenants and landlords to
ensure customers’ rights
．Approximately 15 voluntary lawyers to provide free online consultation
in case any dispute should occur. |
．All-taken, unfiltered housing information
．No help when disputes occur |
| 3. Information Update and Validity |
．Approximately 10 full-time staff and 50 volunteers for real-time
information update to ensure its validity
．Registration, verification, examination and update done by
full-time staff on daily basis |
．Information registered and updated by registrants
．No real-time information update due to limited manpower.
．Erroneous information caused by inadequate fields for data
collection |
| 4. Information Source |
．Information provided by landlords spontaneously
．Filtering of Information from housing rental agencies or sublease-landlords
．Rejection of Information from landlords who are not willing
to provide documents as requested. |
．Information posted by landlords or by website administrators
．Information without verification, therefore ineffective information
is provided or subleases not permitted by landlords |
| 5. Information Circulation |
．Large number of tenants and landlords
．Fast circulation and turnover of information |
．Small number of tenants and landlords
．Slow circulation of information |
| 6. Value-added Services |
．Voluntary online legal consultation service for dispute resolution
．Recommendation on quality house moving companies to ensure
moving quality
．Online flea market to help solve furniture problems
．Experiences of all sorts (renting , legal, moving) collected
as a useful encyclopedia for references
．Map interface to help users know future living surroundings
well |
．Few value-added services |
| 7. Search Function |
．Powerful and complete search function to satisfy tenants
with assorted needs |
．Rough search functions, unable to satisfy users’ needs |
| 8. Nature of Organization |
．Non-profit organization, providing service from landlords
and tenants’ perspective instead of profit-oriented perspective
．Modest fee charged for keeping the organization moving, helping
other disadvantaged minority groups, and pushing ahead enactment
of housing related laws and regulations. |
．Profit organizations, run by real estate/housing rental agencies
or other businesses
．Profit oriented |
| 9. Social Services |
．The only social service database to help take care of disadvantaged
minority groups
．Database of benevolent landlords that are willing to help disadvantaged
minority groups
．Database of housing with barrier-free environment for disabled
people (coming soon)
．Group housing rental service provided for college students
and labor unions
．English rental service provided for foreign students and young
people
．Voluntary rental legal service for consulting |
．Profit-oriented
．No free service provided for disadvantaged minority group
．No free rental legal consultation provided |
| 10. Policy Promotion |
．Various services provided for public interests so as to help
realize social reform
．Housing related policies promoted in order to ensure the living
rights of houseless people |
．None |
