Archive for July, 2008
Apartment Rental News Brief: Bush Signs Housing Rescue Plan
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Weekly News Update | 1 Comment »
This morning, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3221, the Foreclosure Prevention Act 2008. The housing rescue plan, which was mired in Congress for the past few months undergoing countless amendment ... Read more..Los Angeles Apartments Get Free Recycling
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green Apartment Living | 1 Comment »
We saw a great public service announcement yesterday from the Apartment Marketing Blog for Los Angeles apartments. Apparently the city of Los Angeles will provide free resources to apartments for ... Read more..Apartment Rental News Top Story: H.R. 3221
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Political Corner | No Comments »
This morning we reported that the Senate had passed H.R. 3221, sending the housing rescue plan to the White House, which is expected to sign the bill into law in ... Read more..Apartment Rental News Top Story: Federal Housing Rescue Heads to the White House
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Political Corner | No Comments »
The Senate, working on a Saturday to finish business before their month long August recess, passed the newly expanded H.R. 3221 by a 72-13 vote. The bill passed the House ... Read more..Apartment Rental News Weekly Roundup: Housing Crisis Legislation Augmented
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Political Corner, Weekly News Update | No Comments »
We interrupt the blog presentation of Tim's Last Day to bring you this breaking news from Capitol Hill: We have been following the federal housing rescue plan, The Foreclosure Prevention Act ... Read more..Live Blogging Tim's Last Day
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in About Us...Really | 4 Comments »
Today is a sad day for MyNewPlace. Tim Riedel, Product Manager extraordinaire, will be leaving us to attend business school in Boston. Since Tim is kind of a big deal ... Read more..One Way to Exterminate Pests in Apartments
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Apartment Living | No Comments »
We wanted to share this article as a cautionary tale for apartment dwellers. Apparently, a New Jersey man somehow blew up his apartment spraying for bugs. Isias Vidal Maceda was miraculously ... Read more..Inman Interviews John Helm: MyNewPlace Founder and CEO
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in About Us...Really | 1 Comment »
This morning, we were happy to see that an interview with our founder and CEO, John Helm, was featured at Inman News; John will be speaking this week at the ... Read more..Apartment Listings with Photos Drive Leads
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
We saw a very interesting article over at the Sellsius Real Estate Blog that detailed some statistics on the effectiveness of including photos with real estate listings. The study, done ... Read more..Apartment Rentals Keep New Home Start Stats Up?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Apartment Market Info | 3 Comments »
Getting to the bottom of headlines and statistics can sometime prove to be quite the laborious endeavor. For instance, in this morning's Drudge Report, one of the headlines placed at the ... Read more..