Monthly Archives: September 2008
The Carnival of Real Estate:110th Edition
Well, this is our first time hosting the Carnival of Real Estate and we are very happy to be participating. Be sure to submit to the CORE next week, which will be hosted at VARbuzz. Reading through all the posts this week was especially informative for us, since MyNewPlace focuses on homes and apartments for [...]
Apartment Rental Lobbying to Change Next Year
NAA and NMHC Joint Legislative Program to End On Monday, the National Apartment Association and the National Multi Housing Council announced that they would end their Joint Legislative Program. The organizations announced the split in press releases on their respective websites. For the past 17 years, the NAA/NMHC Joint Legislative Program has represented the apartment [...]
Apartment Rental News Weekly Roundup
This week, we’ll take a look around the apartment rental world to check out what is going on with the nation’s apartments for rent. Green Apartments We have talked a lot in our apartment guide about how renters can go green in apartments, but today we saw an interview with an owner of an apartment [...]
Denver Apartments and Renters are Pet Friendly
This morning we pushed out a new press release that relates that the most pet friendly city for renters is Denver. What makes Denver apartments so particularly pet friendly?
Finding a Good Roommate for Your Apartment
Your roommate can have just as great an impact on your apartment as the neighborhood in which you live or the amenities that your apartment offers. You are going to want the atmosphere within your apartment to be geared towards your lifestyle just as much as you would like the neighborhood in which you live [...]
Phoenix Apartments Search Trends
Last week, we released some of our internal data that detailed rental search trends for Phoenix apartments. Check out our publication on the Phoenix rental trends here. When we reviewed the numbers for some of our most popular cities, we found that renters in Phoenix are searching for homes for rent and 3 bedroom apartments [...]
Decorating Your Apartment
(photo courtesy of Mia Mabanta) After last week’s Apartment Rental Match Game, it became abundantly clear to me that I urgently needed to seek consultation for decorating my apartment. This unnatural inclination to spruce things up was prompted by the fact that many of the games participants incorrectly matched a dog named Henri with my [...]
MyNewPlace Rolls Out New Apartment Guide
Included in our latest release was a shiny new design for our apartment guide. In the interest of helping renters with problems ranging from how to rent apartments with bad credit to how to stock your fridge when you first move in, we reorganized our categories and have made the apartment guide easier to navigate [...]