Monthly Archives: March 2009

Starting this week, MyNewPlace users will be able to post/Tweet apartments they are looking at to their Twitter profiles. We think that this feature is a great complement to our recently released Facebook Connect functionality, which is designed with a similar purpose in mind, to make it easier for renters to enlist the help of [...]

Last week, we wrote an article about the unfortunate circumstances that followed when a rental property was foreclosed on and a court appointed a receivership to run the property. Our article focused on the unenviable position in which the renters were left because we wanted to highlight the variance on renter’s rights after foreclosures between [...]

Back in December we reported on some good news for renters and property managers, which was the result of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lawsuit prompted decision to allow qualified renters in foreclosed properties that have been absorbed by the GSEs to remain in their homes. After doing some research on renters rights after the [...]

Recently we came across an article via the Rainmaker Group’s twitterstream about how tenants in a Chandler, AZ apartment building caused a bit of a kerfuffle after they found their security deposits gone, the apartment in serious neglect and yet still somehow bound to their apartments by their leases. Apparently, the owner had abandoned the [...]

Last night, we added some new functionality to our apartment details pages that will show you what’s in the neighborhood. We feel that your ‘neighborhood’s amenities’ (grocery stores, restaurants, schools, banks, places of worship, bars, pharmacies, Laundromats, etc.) are just as important to deciding where to live as what is inside your apartment. So now, [...]

This morning we received an email from the good folks at the National Apartment Association announcing the first annual 2009 Green Conference and Exposition, which will be held April 28th and 29th at the Phoenix Convention Center, which happens to be a LEED Certified Building. The Green Conference will focus on how the multifamily industry [...]

Over the next few months, MyNewPlace founder and CEO John Helm will host workshops in select cities across the US focusing on cost-effective resident acquisition. The workshops, titled “Smart Marketing on a Smaller Budget” discuss how to fill vacancies and cut advertising costs by comparing paid advertising sources. Leading owners/managers will share the best tips [...]

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan released details on February 20th of a new plan designed to reach out to renters who are still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Although it has been over 3 and a half years since these hurricanes lambasted the gulf coast and displaced thousands of renters and [...]

Just last week we redesigned our Search Results Page (SRP) to improve your apartment search experience. Our SRP is the page on which you arrive after you search for apartments in a particular city. Not only is it as easy on the eyes as your blog editor, but it has bigger pictures and text, which [...]