Monthly Archives: June 2009

If you’re like us, each month you wait anxiously for the postman to arrive with the latest copy of Units, the National Apartment Association’s magazine. This month, Jeffrey Lee wrote a great piece called “Revving Up Online Marketing,” about why getting your apartments listed on an ILS like MyNewPlace, for example is the best way [...]

*UPDATE- House Passes HR 2454 219-212, will now head to Senate* Today the House will vote on HR 2454, (at press time, House Minority Leader John Boehner was filibustering the House by reading selections from a 300 page amendment, you can watch live here) the American Energy and Security Act; this bill has many implications [...]

MyNewPlace has developed a tool to make it easy for our clients to post ads for their apartments, or even specific unit, to Craigslist. Currently, posting to Craigslist can be a cumbersome process and is vulnerable to human error. The goal of our Craigslist tool is to make it as easy as possible for apartment [...]

REITs CNN Money’s online edition clues investors in on the disproportionately high dividend yields offered by REITs. While the average stock dividend from the S&P was about 2.6 percent, the average REIT dividend averaged 7 percent. [CNN Money] HUD HUD announced today that they would be releasing $58 million for housing counseling; the funds will [...]

The GREEN Act Reintroduced According to Multi Housing News Online, Colorado Representative Ed Perlmutter has reintroduced legislation (H.R. 2336) that would bring energy efficiency to the single and multifamily housing markets. Mr. Perlmutter’s district, located on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, gets about 300 days of sun every year(and a whole lot of [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from our friends over at Relocation.com, who will be providing us with information on how to gracefully handle relocating. Entire books could be written on mistakes people make when planning their move. Thankfully, we’ve distilled it down into 5 of the major ones. Packing Panic OK, more alliteration: [...]

Moving by its very nature is wasteful — we pack our stuff into cardboard boxes that we throw away after the move, we wrap our stuff in plastic bubble wrap, and we use big, smoke-belching trucks get our stuff to a new home.

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Relocation.com Moving can be hard on a human, but it’s even harder, and more stressful, on a pet. We have the scratch marks to prove it. So make your life (and your pet’s) a little easier with these simple do’s and don’ts.

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Relocation.com Hey, moving is costly and the costs come at you fast and furious. So prepare: Have an idea of the costs you’ll face. Plan: Have a way to pay for the expenses that doesn’t have you bouncing checks.

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Relocation.com If you don’t have a lot of stuff to move, that’s both good and bad. The good: your move will probably be more straight-forward than if you had to move a lot of stuff. The bad: many moving companies might not be interested in handling your [...]