How one firm wants to tap into a booming apartment market.

Northbrook-based WilliamPaid.com is looking to move into larger offices this spring...

WilliamPaid today announced the selection by Feldman Real Estate Inc. of WilliamPaid as its exclusive provider of online rent payment solutions for its tenants.

As housing foreclosures continue to rise and as mortgage financing is harder and harder to come by, more people are renting their homes rather than owning.

Beginning today, tenants of M. Fishman & Co., a leading Chicago-based property manager of nearly 1,000 residential real estate units, will be able to pay their rent directly on the M. Fishman website using a credit card or bank account.

Squabbling with your roommates over whether each of them has forked over their share of the rent on time? Maybe you can acquire the services of a neutral bookkeeper.

WilliamPaid, an online rent payment and credit-building service, now offers GroupPay, a service that allows roommates to share, manage and pay their rent online, thereby eliminating typical rent collection issues.

Remember your sophomore year of college when you moved out of the dorms and into your first apartment? The excitement of living with your best friends, making your own rules, and having your own space probably trumped the new responsibilities of paying rent, utilities and other expenses.

In a nutshell, we help renters & roommates collect, manage, and pay the rent online with more flexibility than they've ever had before – with a credit or debit card or direct debit from their bank account.

With student loan debt averaging $23,186 for graduates of four-year college and universities, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education, WilliamPaid has issued a challenge to renters and other student debt holders to reduce their student loans.

One of the more frequent instances in which shaking down friends for money occurs is the oft-dreaded first-of-the-month: rent day. WilliamPaid has taken a page out of Billmonk's book, but they've narrowed their sights to offer services only pertaining to rent payment.

A recent survey conducted by WilliamPaid.com, an online rent payment and credit building resource, showed 71 percent of renters still write a paper check each month. With checks and other paper instruments reflecting only 37 percent of all consumer payments, according to the 2008 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice (CPC), rent appears to be the last holdout for the paper check.

Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. have little or no credit rating on file with the Experian, Equifax and TransUnion bureaus, making it difficult – and even impossible – for companies to approve their applications when it comes time to lease an apartment or buy a car or even a home.

Schultz mentions Wepay.com, and I recommend Williampaid.com, as it builds good credit. Fresh out of college, you don't really have a credit history, so being able to build good credit just by paying your rent is a great idea.

Chicago–Chasing residents who are always late in paying their rent is a time consuming affair; one that property managers are all too aware of. A new venture, WilliamPaid, is an online resource for renters and roommates, which provides them with incentives to pay rent on time. The name comes from Bill Paid.

It's probably safe to say that majority of us find little satisfaction in paying our rent and begrudge the gaping hole in our bank account. But what if someone told you that by paying your rent online, you could simultaneously pay back your school loans?

WilliamPaid, the online renter and roommate resource, announces the sixth in a series of monthly sweepstakes. This month, one lucky winner will receive up to $1,000 from WilliamPaid to pay their rent.

WilliamPaid, the online renter and roommate resource, announces the fifth in a series of monthly sweepstakes. This month, three winners will receive up to $1,000 from WilliamPaid to pay their rent or another household expense.

WilliamPaid, the online renter and roommate resource, announces the third in a series of monthly sweepstakes. This month, three winners will have a chosen expense paid by WilliamPaid, up to $1,000.

WilliamPaid, the online renter and roommate resource, announces the first winners of its monthly Free Rent Sweepstakes that provides three winners with up to $1000 of free rent for a month.

WilliamPaid, a new online resource for renters offering roommate relationship-building tools, cash-back renter rewards, and the means to build a reportable credit history simply by paying rent, today announced its founding advisory board.

Today MTV premieres College Life, a new series documenting the daily lives, roommate relationship interactions, and academic successes of four University of Wisconsin - Madison students. According to Williampaid.com, a new online resource for renters, interactions with roommates can be tougher to deal with than any college course.

WilliamPaid CEO, Evan Silverman, contributes credit score building tips to WalletPop.com.