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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact:                                                                                                                           
Meredith Mobley                                                                                      
Marketing Communications Coordinator
meredith.mobley@forrent.com
Phone: 757-351-7366
Fax: 757-961-4827

Viva La Vie Boheme in your apartment and win tickets to RENT: The Broadway Tour

ForRent.com and RENT: The Broadway Tour launch the “Viva La Vie Boheme” Facebook photo contest

NORFOLK, Va.-(Nov. 19, 2009)-ForRent.com, a division of Dominion Enterprises, and RENT: The Broadway Tour, celebrate the apartment living lifestyle with the “Viva La Vie Boheme,” Facebook photo contest. “Viva La Vie Boheme,” is the cry of Bohemians in the musical RENT meaning “Long Live Bohemia.” The contest asks apartment seekers to submit photos showing how they live “la vie boheme” in their apartments.

ForRent.com and RENT: The Broadway Tour will fly the winner and a friend to Sacramento, Calif., to attend the final performance of RENT: The Broadway Tour in February. Three finalists will each receive memorabilia from the show.

To participate, contestants must become a fan of the ForRent.com Facebook fan page and upload pictures of their free-spirited, apartment living lifestyle. In Facebook, visitors will be allowed to vote on their favorite photo through the “like” feature. The five photos with the most “likes” will be submitted to the cast of RENT who will pick the winner.

The contest consists of three phases:

o        Phase I: Submission, Nov. 9 - Dec. 15, 2009

o        Phase II: Voting,  Dec. 16 - Jan. 4, 2010

o        Phase III: Judging,  Jan. 5 - 8, 2010

“The ‘Viva La Vie Boheme’ Facebook contest is an exciting and creative way for apartment seekers to show how they celebrate the apartment living lifestyle,” says Terry Slattery, president, For Rent Media Solutions. “ForRent.com and RENT: The Broadway Tour have established strong followings, we look forward to seeing snapshots into the daily lives of ForRent.com followers and RENT fans.”

Visit the ForRent.com blog for more details. Apartment seekers and enthusiasts of RENT: The Broadway Tour can learn more about the contest through the RENT: The Broadway Tour Web site.

About RENT: The Broadway Tour

Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Gwen Stewart reprise the roles they originated on Broadway in “Rent: The Broadway Tour” currently touring across the United States until February 2010. Over the course of its groundbreaking 12-year New York run, “RENT” transformed the definition of musical theater — and changed Broadway forever. Set in NYC’s East Village, “RENT” is a modern take on the classic Puccini opera, La Boheme. It tells the unforgettable story of a group of young artists learning to survive, falling in love, finding their voices and living for today.

About For Rent Media Solutions^TM

Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., For Rent Media Solutions is a division of Dominion Enterprises and a leading resource for choosing your next apartment for rent. As the multi-family housing solution for apartment seekers and property managers, For Rent Media Solutions operates For Rent Magazine^® and publishes 99 magazines covering more than 190 markets nationwide. In addition, For Rent Media Solutions operates four addition websites, including ForRent.com. For Rent Media Solutions is a company dedicated to the needs of the apartment industry, bringing prospective residents and apartment communities together.

About Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises is a leading marketing services company serving the automotive, enthusiast and commercial vehicle, real estate, apartment rental, and employment industries. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., with 5,400 employees nationwide, the company provides a comprehensive suite of technology-based marketing solutions, more than 45 market-leading Web sites, and 450 magazines. For more information, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com/.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                            Contact:                                                                                                                             Meredith Mobley                                                                                 
Marketing Communications Coordinator
meredith.mobley@forrent.com
Phone: 757-351-7366
Fax: 757-961-4827

ForRent.com’s “Ready2Move?” video contest awards $10,000 to Dallas apartment renter

NORFOLK, Va.-(July 1, 2009)-Justin Spence got the call of a lifetime on Friday from ForRent.com^®. He entered his video in the apartment listing service’s nationwide online video contest and after months of anticipation, found out he was the $10,000 grand prize winner.

Spence, who works for his family’s radiator manufacturing business, is also a part time videographer. Under the weather and in the process of moving, Friday’s call could not have come at a better time. When asked how he felt about winning the $10,000 grand prize, he yelled, “Holy Moly! I think I just got a better kick than any kind of medicine could give me!”

ForRent.com launched the “Ready2Move?” nationwide video contest on April 1. The contest asked apartment seekers to create a short video and tell ForRent.com why they were ready to move for a chance to win $10,000.

Spence did just that. He and his wife created and starred in the one-minute video “$1,200 a month and No Pool?” The video depicts a conversation between Spence and a buddy, who is living lavishly in a Dallas apartment community, while Spence is desperately searching the classified listings for an apartment. The friend recommends ForRent.com as an apartment searching resource. When speaking about the benefit of the site’s functionality he boasts, “…you’re not gonna find that from some dude’s Web site in San Francisco.”

“This year’s contest was even more popular than last year. With the number of submissions more than doubling, the judges had a challenging time selecting the winners,” said Terry Slattery, president of For Rent Media Solutions.

In addition to the grand prize winner, three finalists were selected to receive an iPod Touch^®:

• Neehar and Renee Gupta, Indianapolis, for “The Answer is Clear“

• Bart Baker, Winnetka, Ill., for “Ready 2 Move“

• Chandra Farnsworth, Olympia, Wash., for “See Brent“

ForRent.com even rewarded viewers just for voting. Patrick Freise, a rising senior at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, is $1,500 richer after being selected in a random drawing from 4,798 voters as the voting sweepstakes winner. With his earnings, Freise says he plans to buy his girlfriend a nice birthday gift.

Spence credits the popularity of his video to promoting it on social media Web sites like Facebook and Myspace, “I personally use Facebook and MySpace a lot. I’m a strong believer that social networking is the new media to advertise your products.”

ForRent.com worked with Vitrue, a social media company, to launch its second annual nationwide video contest. A panel of judges watched all 123 videos and selected the grand prize winner and the three finalists based on five criteria: creativity/originality, overall quality/appearance, relevance to the contest theme, promotion of the ForRent.com and or For Rent Magazine^® brand, as well as the total number of user generated Internet votes received. In total, more than 24,000 votes were received.

To see all videos submitted for the “Ready2Move?” video contest, visit http://contest.forrent.com/.

About For Rent Media Solutions^TM

Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., For Rent Media Solutions is a division of Dominion Enterprises. As the multi-family housing solution for apartment seekers, property/apartment managers and owners, For Rent Media Solutions provides superior products, outstanding customer service, and tangible results.  For Rent Media Solutions is a leading resource for choosing your next apartment for rent, townhouse, condo, duplex, efficiency, studio or loft and provides a free customizable apartment search from more than 50,000 apartment listings nationwide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates For Rent Magazine^®, as well as ForRent.com^TM-The Magazine, and publishes 98 magazines covering more than 190 markets nationwide, including After 55^TM Housing & Resource Guide, and Apartamentos Para Rentar^®. For Rent Media Solutions operates four additional Web sites: ForRent.com^®, SeniorOutlook.com^TM, CorporateHousing.com^®, and ParaRentar.com^TM.  For Rent Media Solutions is a company dedicated to the needs of the apartment industry, bringing prospective residents and apartment communities together.

About Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises is a leading marketing services company serving the automotive, enthusiast and commercial vehicle, real estate, apartment rental, and employment industries. The company’s businesses provide a comprehensive suite of technology-based marketing solutions including Internet advertising, lead generation, CRM, Web site design and hosting, and data management services. The company has more than 45 market-leading Web sites reaching more than 16.7 million unique visitors, and more than 450 magazines with a weekly circulation of 4.3 million. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., the company has 5,400 employees in more than 200 offices nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com/.

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