Live Simply Rental Feed Fields Help
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Live Simply accepts rental property feed files in the CSV or XML formats. Here is a sample feed file for each of these formats:
CSV
XML
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Rental Property Fields
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Each rental housing listing needs to include these fields.
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Location Fields
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The location fields indicate the location of the item being listed. For location-based search to work, it is highly recommended that each listing specify its location at least down to the city or zip/postal code level.
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Additional Fields
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The more of these additional fields that are included for a listing, the more likely that listing is to be found in searches.
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Field Descriptions
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bathrooms |
| | The number of bathrooms. This must be a whole number. |
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Format:
Number.
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Example:
2
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bedrooms |
| | The number of bedrooms. |
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Format:
Number.
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Example:
3
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property_type |
| | The property type of the item being listed. This must be set to Rent. Since we only advertise properties for rent. |
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Format:
Text. Please be consistent in category names.
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Example:
Rent - Rent a bedsit
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town |
| | The name of the city. Please use an official postal city name. |
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Format:
Text.
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Example:
Concord
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country |
| | The country abbreviation. |
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Format:
Text. Preferably, the two letter ISO 3166 country code. |
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Example:
UK
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description |
| | A description of the listing. |
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Format:
Text. Maximum length 20,000 bytes.
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Example:
Spacious three bedroom, two bathroom apartment for rent in the Willow Park neighborhood of Concord.
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bills_included |
| | An option to specify bills included or not. |
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Format:
Text specifying yes or no.
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Example:
Yes
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list_bills |
| | An option to specify the list of bills included in the option. |
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Format:
Text specifying the list of bills.
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Example:
Given for the list bills option
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available_to_students |
| | An option to specify listing available to students or not. |
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Format:
Text specifying yes or no.
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Example:
Yes
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available_for_short_time_service |
| | An option to specify listing available for short time service. |
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Format:
Text specifying yes or no.
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Example:
Yes
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video_code_option |
| | An option to specify listing has the video code to describe it. |
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Format:
Text specifying yes or no.
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Example:
Yes
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video_code |
| | If the video code option is set as yes,then need to enter the Video code which is inthe format of HTML - embed code. |
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Format:
Html code specifying the video content .
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Example:
HTML - EMBED Code
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video_file_url |
| | Url of the Video file which describes about the listing. |
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Format:
A valid Html url.
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Example:
A valid Html url
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audio_file_url |
| | Url of the Audio file which describes about the listing. |
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Format:
A valid Html url.
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Example:
A valid Html url
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available_from |
| | The date from which the listing will be available. |
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Format:
A valid date in the format of yyyy-mm-dd.
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Example:
2008-07-08
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price_per_week |
| | Amount for the listing per week. |
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Format:
Amount.
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Example:
1000.00
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deposit_amount |
| | Amount for the Deposit. |
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Format:
Amount.
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Example:
10000.00
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price_negotiable |
| | To specify whether negotiable on the Amount is applicable or not. |
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Format:
Text which specify the options Either Yes or No.
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Example:
Yes
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photos |
| | A URL pointing to a full-sized (not thumbnail) image of the item being listed. We will reduce the image to an appropriately-sized thumbnail. The image should be specifically relevent to the item being listed, so please do *not* include logos nor 'image unavailable' images. |
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Format:
Fully qualified URL that points to an image.
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Example:
http://www.example.com/listing/image.jpg
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County |
| | The County in which the rental property is in |
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Format:
Text. Please use full names
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Example:
Lancashire
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listing_title |
| | The title of the listing. |
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Format:
Text.
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Example:
Spacious Apartment for Rent
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post_code |
| | The postal code or zip code of the listing. |
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Format:
Text. Please use a format standard to the postal codes of the country in question.
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Example:
W1 6GY
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