Thinking of trying to start up a small online business (part-time)? -

the plan is to create a site to allow landlords etc, market their openings on my site, but my site will be set up more along the lines being marketed towards a specific college campus area. Any idea if this would work or if you would use a site like this over a craigslist type of site?

It would work very well if you can market it successfully. The town where I live has a site like that (it s also a university town), and it s where most students find apartments/houses to rent.

Use a website like eCoder or eLance.com to find programmers that can write the logic for a site like that. They will be less expensive that trying to find someone local to do it. I always use programmers in the Pacific Rim or Slavic countries where US dollars go a long way.