Crystal Coast Rentals

Thanks to the forward-thinking suggestion of a visitor I have been pondering how to implement a rental review section. I knew from the start it would not be a quick, easy task. There are literally thousands of vacation rentals along the Crystal Coast. So I started small, I went to the biggest property managers in Emerald Isle, and crawled their websites gathering each of their properties names.

I now have about 1,400 rental properties in my database. With that data I plan to first finish the database architecture. I have a good idea what fields I will need, their potential size and what type of data will be in each field. For example I will need to capture the dates the guest writing the review stayed in the rental. Then I will need their comments about their stay. I will also have a star rating that needs to be captured. As the reviews accumulate the ratings will need to be averaged. There will also be a question like, “Would you rent this property again?”

The fun part will be coding the user interface so that people can view and add to this rental data. I will also have to secure it, so that profanity and other undesirable junk doesn’t get posted out there.

Of course there will always be rentals that need to be added to the database, so be patient, and I hope it will become a useful tool for those looking to rent properties here on the Crystal Coast. I am working on this just about every other night and hope to have it in full operation before the rental season gets into full swing.

Cheers and happy renting,

Jason