We're Now on Facebook

Come find us on Facebook! We are at: www.Facebook.com/RentFreeport. Become a "fan" by clicking the "Like" button!  See you there!

Have You Seen Our NEW Billboard ??

Tell your friends!
If we rent to them due to your word-of-mouth advertising, YOU get a $50 Referral Fee!
And KUDOS from your friends for helping them find a GREAT place to rent!

The FRUSTRATION of Estmated Utility Bills

We've all been frustrated lately with extra-high utukity bills - only to discover our last few months of billings have been ESTIMATED and now we finally get an ACTUAL bill that seems outrageous by comparison.

Look carefully at your electric and gas bills each month.  If they are estimated, you can call the utility company with your own reading and have them rebill you.  If you are hit with an absurdly high bill and find out it is an actual reading - but your last few months have been estimated -- call the utility to work out an amicable payment plan.  They are required to do this - with no additional fees, interest or penalties accruing.

And you should read this GREAT informative article that was in the Freeport Journal-Standard on January 15, 2011.   http://www.journalstandard.com/news/x512659095/5-things-you-should-know-about-estimated-billing-and-balloon-bills   (Copy and paste into your browser if the link doesn't work for you.)

Remember to pay attention to this "estimated reading" practice all year long!

Holiday Wishes

A Holiday Wish To Each of You!

During this holiday season, we extend our best wishes to our valued residents. It has been our pleasure to serve you throughout this past year. Wherever you find yourself this holiday season, far away visiting friends and relatives or enjoying the quiet comfort of home, may your heart be filled with the joy of the season.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Kwanzaa! 

And here's to an exciting and prosperous New Year!

~ from the REO gang

FREEPORT'S WINTER PARKING RULES

CITY OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS

WINTER PARKING REGULATIONS

• Winter Parking Regulations apply every day of month from December 1 to March 31

• Even days of the month you must park on even-numbered side of street - generally West and North

• Odd days of the month you must park on odd-numbered side of street - generally East and South

• Streets that have designated parking on one side only for an entire city block, shall be exempt

• 8:00 am is the beginning hour for all streets in City (except in the Business District - see below)

• Odd-Even parking does not apply in Business District. Parking in the Business District is not allowed between the hours of 2:00 am and 5:00 am throughout the entire year. Business District is area bounded by Jackson Street, the Pecatonica River, Douglas Street, and Cherry Avenue, excepting the 300 block of West Douglas Street.

• No person shall pile or cause to be piled any snow on avenues, streets, boulevards, alleys, sidewalks or any other City-owned property, except at the direction of the Public Works Director. Further, no person shall pile or cause to be piled any snow to obstruct the vision at any intersection of any street, avenue, boulevard or alley within the City.

For questions, please call City of Freeport City Hall at 815-235-8200;
Freeport Police Department (Non-emergency) at 815-235-8222; or
Street Department at 815-235-8210.

Tell you friends to TEXT us!!

As you know, we offer a $50 referral fee when you tell a friend, co-worker or family member about REO and they end up renting from us.   Now they can get our list of vacancies 2 easy ways:

on our website at

www.RentFreeport.com or NOW they can send a quick text message to 41411 with the word RENTALS.  They will immediately receive a text message back with what we have available.  And they'll receive any updates immediately as new vacancies pop up.  REMEMBER, if you helped bring them to us, and they qualify and move into one of our places - you make FIFTY BUCKS!  How easy is that! 

Try it yourself --- text RENTALS to 41411.   Pretty cool, huh?

Soon we may be offering specials to our current tenants who subscribe to our SMS program.  Sign up now!

Enter in September to WIN a $20 Gift Card!!

If you are looking here because you just read the REO September 2010 newsletter -- then we want to THANK YOU for checking out the Blog by giving you a chance to WIN a $20 Walmart Gift Card!

Here's all you have to do - go to the "Contact Us" page of our website (www.RentFreeport.com) and shoot us a quickie email saying you read the blog. We will enter your name into the drawing.

Pretty Simple!! 

You have the whole month of September to enter (please, only one entry per household).  The lucky winner's name will be drawn on October 1st!

We hope that you check back here every so often to see any news that specifically pertains to our wonderful residents (hey, that's YOU!) !