Monthly Archives: April 2008

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be featuring snippets from an article authored by the National Apartment (NAA) and the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) entitled Don’t Buy the Myths: Renting Can Be a Smart Decision. The article focuses on 9 widespread misconceptions regarding the benefits of homeownership over apartment rentals. MYTH# 2: Paying rent [...]

Each week, MyNewPlace provides a compendium of news articles on apartments for rent, the rental market and interesting apartment features. We also track legislation that affects the rental market, highlighting new features for apartment owners and renters, and taking a look at notable apartment trends. Apartment Rental Market News To follow up on a story [...]

Recently, MyNewPlace noticed that a new keyword, “Hillside Villas” had popped up on our analytics report and had been driving a noticeable amount of organic traffic to our detailed rental listing page that featured that property. “Hillside Villas” was, by far, the most searched of all rental property specific keywords. It took us about one [...]

We were perusing Sara Gebhardt’s Apartment Life column in the Washington Post and ran across a subscriber’s question about paying their rent with a credit card. This sounds like a great way to earn rewards from your credit card company…free flight to Vegas, here I come! Housing is usually one’s largest monthly expense, be it [...]

As an addendum to our weekly Apartment Rental News Roundup, we wanted to give special focus to a current court case that may affect apartment rentals. We saw an article over at apartmentmarketingblog.com that should be of significant interest to apartment owners, builders and architects. If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sides with [...]

Every Monday, MyNewPlace provides a compendium of interesting news articles on apartments for rent, the rental market and other stories from the world of apartment renting. We browse all corners of the web during the week to keep abreast of rental trends, new apartment features, as well as political and economic developments and other issues [...]

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be featuring snippets from an article authored by the National Apartment (NAA) and the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) entitled “Don’t Buy the Myths: Renting Can Be a Smart Decision.” The article focuses on 9 widespread misconceptions regarding the benefits of homeownership over apartment rentals. Myth #1- I’ll Reduce [...]

Last night, as I helped my friends bring a brand new 46″ plasma TV into their apartment, I thought that it was an appropriate time to delve more deeply into the details of renters insurance. We’ve written about renters insurance before, but this time we will run through a how one would get a quote [...]

The town of Oxnard, California has voted to prohibit smoking in senior public housing complexes in the downtown area. The measure passed unanimously at a city council meeting on March 25th. Oxnard’s new legislation makes it the third town in California to restrict smoking in multifamily apartment rentals. Calabasas and Belmont had both previously passed [...]

This week, MyNewPlace has made some changes and rolled out some new features to help you find apartments for rent. The MyNewPlace Apartment Guide will help you rent an apartment, and includes articles that cover topics such as how to organize your apartment search, tips for inspecting apartments and questions for landlords, and ways to [...]