Uhhh, freaking awesome. Are you responsible for this?

I'm browsing and it goes from 15k penthouse to 20k vacant lot. Of course the lot is yours for a lot longer.

This has been a real problem for me when I'm trying to "sell" bitcoin to local merchants here in Las Vegas. The question ALWAYS comes up as to what they can do with the Bitcoins and stuff like "Well, it seems like a cool idea, but Bitcoin's don't pay the rent and utilities". Now, I have a response for them. This is going to make selling Bitcoin to merchants infinity more easy.



Great questions. As far as I could tell:
The software was created for his wife's property management system - so it's proprietary to his operation. I will ask him if he's considered selling his management system to other property management companies.

I did not see a method to specifically split payments, but I recall it seemed plausible that a tenant could submit two payments. Bitcoin and, say, paypal.

I did not see any option for discounts if paid by Bitcoin. Exchange rate was calculated at time of payment. My friend is long on bitcoin and doesn't expect a lot of tenants to actually use Bitcoin. If someone did, he'd keep the bitcoins (probably to support his poker interest).

How to register ?

This should be the point driven home to every merchant and ecommerce site out there.

The merchant is not doing bitcoiners a favor by accepting bitcoin.  Merchants that accept bitcoin are doing themselves a favor by accepting bitcoin.

The fifth or fiftieth property management company to accept bitcoins won't get much bang from it, but the first one certainly is, and will continue doing so.

It's like Meze Grill in Manhattan.   How many of us know what that is yet couldn't name another restaurant within a ninety mile radius of there.

The fifth restaurant in your town to accept bitcoins won't get as much bitcoin business as the first one will have received though.  Each metro area needs the first before there will be a fifth but the biggest benefit goes to the first mover.

And the thing is, they don't even need to go in full throttle (i.e., modifying the software for the web interface) like this property manager did.

A brick and mortar business can print up and laminate a few bitcoin address QR Codes using My Wallet ( http://BlockChain.info/wallet ) and set the account's notification settings so that an email alert is sent (email or to an SMS mobile text message number if nothing else) so the merchant will automatically know whenever a payment is made.  

Yes, that does involve doing a manual calculation to figure the amount of bitcoins for the sale but if that occurs enough that it becomes a problem then that means the experiment is a fantastic success -- time to move up to using Bit-Pay's or Mt. Gox's mobile point of sale app or one of the many options available.

But getting that first one of each is key.

I'm just not sure what will need to happen before there is a "first of each" in each city for each category.  In this case, the business owner is a bitcoiner (or at least is married to one).  Is that the only hope though for getting the "first of each" onboard?

Old marketing vs. new.