Monthly Archives: March 2008

Remember when you were young and you came down with flu? It was not all that bad when someone in your family would selflessly try to nurture you back to health by serving you chicken noodle soup while you watched The Price is Right. You could annex the couch from the rest of the family [...]

An aspect of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, one that you most likely did not hear the talking heads and pundits discussing, is an incentive designed to increase commercial real estate construction. A potential upshot of this ignored section could be the most cost-effective way for apartment owners to retrofit, improve or construct their [...]

This morning we saw that our friends over at the HotPads Blog had posted an article about connecting with their company on LinkedIn, using a newly released feature. We were happy to see that MyNewPlace had also been selected as one of the 160,000 companies to be included on their new release. LinkedIn, the popular [...]

We’ve been in love with the type-ahead suggestion list feature on the Google toolbar for quite a while and have finally figured it was time to try adding it to the search box on MyNewPlace. Little did I realize what a major back end effort it would take to support something that looks so simple. [...]

A couple of weeks ago, a few of us from MyNewPlace had the chance to attend the Omniture Summit in Salt Lake City. Although most of you probably haven’t heard of Omniture, you’ve all undoubtedly interacted with websites using their products. Omniture’s SiteCatalyst suite is the online marketing package of choice for many businesses, both [...]

Over the weekend, the MyNewPlace team rolled out the latest upgrades to our search functionality. While a lot of the work was done under the hood, there are some important changes that will make your apartment search even easier. Photo courtesy of New York Times Ferrari has nothing on our engineers. Not to mention our [...]

In the interest of keeping apartment owners and management companies abreast of political events as well as reaching out to those renters searching for affordable housing, we wanted to pass along and summarize an issue under consideration in Washington that is poised to affect the housing rental industry. Last Wednesday the Senate Committee on Banking, [...]

At MyNewPlace, we understand how difficult it can be to rent a pet-friendly apartment. Renters with pets often have a much more difficult time finding an apartment that accommodates all of their human and animal needs. Apartment owners tend to be concerned with the depreciation and liabilities that are associated with keeping pets in apartments, [...]

Last week our article “Loving Living with Roommates” about renting an apartment with roommates that discussed the benefits as well as certain possible issues of contention of which you should be aware. We plan on revisiting this topic frequently because living with roommates is a large part of the renting experience. Finding an apartment is [...]

Two weeks ago we posted an article entitled “Insurance Company Responds to Demand for Green Apartments.” This article related how a company has introduced new policies to accommodate the growing demand for green apartment buildings. One such building is the ParkMerced, located in San Francisco’s Ingleside neighborhood. The new owners of San Francisco’s ParkMerced have [...]