Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Resilient Apartment Rental Market of the Inland Empire

According to an article in the Press-Enterprise, the primary newspaper of the Inland Empire in Southern California (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) rental costs are expecting to rise modestly in 2008 for that region. The resiliency of the Inland Empire’s rental market is notable, as the region has experienced serious economic volatility; rental rates are [...]

MyNewPlace on Facebook

Two weeks ago, we posted an article about MyNewPlace’s inclusion in a newly launched feature on LinkedIn, a business oriented social networking site. This week, we are happy to announce that MyNewPlace is now on Facebook, the broadly popular social network where almost 70 million users (according to Wikipedia) share comments, photos, articles and information [...]

New Studies Reinforce Benefit of LEED and Energy Star Buildings

We recieved a press release from the folks at the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) that outlined two recent studies that are relevant to apartment owners. The two studies, one done by the New Buildings Institute (NBI) and one by the CoStar Group, demonstrate not only the savings on energy costs of LEED and [...]

Hooray for Hollywood!

The new search term resolver has been at work for a few weeks now and so the other day we took a look at what searches people had been doing that we were still not handling. Among the most frequent were searches for apartments for rent in ‘Hollywood’, ‘Midtown‘, ‘Uptown‘, and ‘Orange County’ so we [...]

Songs to Help you Clean Your Apartment

Usually, an apartment requires a thorough cleaning about once a week, depending on how many roommates you have. This is, however, not exactly everyone’s favorite activity. The hardest task is typically not the cleaning itself, but mobilizing yourself and your roommates to partake. I have found that musical motivation is the best method to get [...]