It is a mashup for three APIs: Google Places, Bing Maps and RentMatrics, which is an API to help you search for competitive pricing for rental properties. So when you run the application, you’ll get a question like this. It asks you to provide the location where you want to rent the house, well this could be very general, it can be a city, neighborhood, or you can just type in the zipcode. So let’s say I want to rent a house around the school, and I typed in 98105. And next, how many bedrooms do you want, three.

It automatically generates a web page with 5 houses for rent along with all the detailed information, including pictures, address, year of built, area, the rent, number of full bathrooms and the property features. Let’s go back to the question part, it asks you to choose the house you are most interested in, from number one to five. Let’s take a look of the web page again. The third one looks pretty good and it has a relatively cheaper price.

So here we go, let’s type in three. And here we get our last function: check surroundings. You can enter any type of places you want to check around this house. So let’s say I want to check the theater. It generates a static map and opened it in the browser. The red label is the location of our choice, and the blue labels are all the surrounding theaters.

Let’s go ahead to try another. So still number three, and shopping mall. Here’s the result, there’s only four of them near the U village. The default radius is 3000m, you can always change it if you want to search places with different distances. So that’s pretty much it, thanks for watching, hope you guys like