American Housing Story- Day 1

American Housing Story- Day 1

Whose Your Landlord has the mission of making quality living the standard for all by giving renters ownership of their situation by putting housing in their hands. Here are some of the American Housing Stories based on renters’ experiences. Let this be a cautionary tale to you- make sure to look at reviews on Whose Your Landlord to ensu ...

Moving Guide: The Do's and Don'ts

Moving Guide: The Do's and Don'ts

While finding your next home is an exciting milestone, there’s one part of the process that is inarguably the worst- the act of moving. Since the only upside of moving is after the fact when you are settled in your new home, Whose Your Landlord created a guide to make your next move a little less stressful. DO Pack Smart Nothing wil ...

9 Simple DIY Decor Hacks To Transform Your House Into a Home

9 Simple DIY Decor Hacks To Transform Your House Into a Home

Whether you just moved into your new home or you want to make your space a little more ‘you’, Whose Your Landlord has the ultimate Do-It-Yourself guide of easy home decor hacks that will elevate your living space from eh to awesome. On a budget? These simple tricks won’t break your bank but will look like it did! Jar Fram ...

It Only Gets Worse From Here: A Move-In Nightmare

It Only Gets Worse From Here: A Move-In Nightmare

Andrew McDevitt’s Story “When we moved in, day one, the house was in shambles.” So begins the three-year move-in nightmare of Andrew McDevitt, a recent Temple University graduate. Like most university upperclassmen, after freshmen year, Andrew moved into an off-campus apartment. And like most college students, his landlord took adv ...

Funding Our Startup Has Been a Struggle. Here's How We've Endured

Funding Our Startup Has Been a Struggle. Here's How We've Endured

Two years ago, I launched WhoseYourLandlord (WYL), a site that enables you to rate your landlord and to find your next home, along with one of my best friends, our COO Felix Addison, and a new friend I had just met at the time, our CTO Nik Korablin. In the name, we decided to use the possessive form of the word “who” because we wanted ...

What My Immigrant Parents Taught Me About Mentoring

What My Immigrant Parents Taught Me About Mentoring

Growing up in an immigrant household isn’t easy. One thing you realize early on is just how much your parents had to sacrifice to put you in a position where you can open your eyes to all the world has to offer. My upbringing fits this bill perfectly. My father, the youngest of eight children, is from Nigeria and grew up during the N ...

How your internships can set you up for the future

How your internships can set you up for the future

Key ways: Find out what you like The reality is ‘we don’t know what we don’t know.’ This saying is uttered a lot and for good reason. Essentially, we all live off experiences, lessons, biases, preconceived notions, fears, and generalizations which create an image of this world that may not always be entirely true. The best teach ...

6 Beliefs held by Millennials that all Employers Should Know

6 Beliefs held by Millennials that all Employers Should Know

We can’t be looked at as a uniform group We all have varying backgrounds and perceive the world a bit differently. While there are some overarching themes that prove to develop from this, it’s not safe to think one “targeted” message towards millennials will prove to be a catch all. We know what we like and we don’t know what w ...

5 Ways Landlords can win over their Renters

5 Ways Landlords can win over their Renters

Having amassed several thousand reviews over the last year and half, our team atWhoseYourLandlord has seen it all. We wanted to take a deeper look at the reviews that have come our way and breakdown the key ways landlords and property managers can win over the love of their tenants. As with most relationships in life, we’ve found that 7 ...

7 Qualities the Greatest Leaders Possess

7 Qualities the Greatest Leaders Possess

Humility Be humble. Seems so simple, but so many lack this ability. Let your work and your results do the speaking for you. That speaks louder than anything you can broadcast and self promote. You hear people say you can tell when someone has that "new money." That saying is derived from the concept of not acting like you've been the ...

How our team did SXSW the right way

How our team did SXSW the right way

Why we went This year, a major car company (which we can’t announce yet) ran a huge startup competition in three U.S. cities and Philly was one of them. In order to win your city, you had to pitch three celebrity entrepreneurs on your business, while driving a car around the city. Picture Cash Cab meeting Sharktank. If an entrepren ...

In a few days, WYL is changing the way you find your next home.

In a few days, WYL is changing the way you find your next home.

For the past two years, WhoseYourLandlord has enabled renters to rate their landlords and housing complexes…Well, come Sunday evening, WYL will enable renters to find their next home, as well. New UI/UX When we first launched two years ago, we wanted to be old school, bold, and colorful in design. From the beginning, we set out to ...