Archive for August, 2009
How to Improve Your Apartment's Online Visibility (Webinar Summary)
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Apartment Marketing | 1 Comment »
This morning I attended a webinar hosted by Aimee Miller of Appfolio Property Manager and Brent Williams of Multifamily Insiders, featuring a presentation by Mike Whaling of 30lines discussing how ... Read more..Apartment Rental News Weekly Roundup: From the Desk of the NMHC
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Apartment Market Info | 1 Comment »
At the beginning of the month we discussed the NMHC's Apartment Market Conditions survey for the second quarter of 2009, which used 4 indices to measure perceived changes on Vacancies, ... Read more..Grow Your Apartment's Indoor Garden
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Green Apartment Living | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, we posted an article in our Apartment Guide about a creative way to bring the outdoors inside apartments. The indoor vertical wall garden is just about as cool a ... Read more..HUD Uses Stimulus Money to Create Affordable Housing
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Low Income and Section 8 Apartments | No Comments »
Yesterday, an article appeared in the Boston Globe about President Barack Obama's plan to use around $4 billion of economic stimulus money to create new affordable housing nationwide. According to ... Read more..Michael Vick is Moving to Philadelphia
Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Renting with Pets | No Comments »
Now that Michael Vick is out of jail and has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles, he'll probably want to start looking at Philadelphia apartments. We would like to take this ... Read more..Apartment Listing Sites to be Sued?
Friday, August 14th, 2009 Posted in Political Corner | No Comments »
Wednesday's headline at Multifamily Executive was "Fair Housing Activists Put Multifamily ILSs on Notice." The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) claims that some ILSs are running ads that discourage families ... Read more..MyNewPlace Adds New Department, Names Ken Cluff as Chief Technology Officer
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in About Us...Really | No Comments »
Earlier this week, we posted about how the continued growth of our company required us to go out and get a penthouse suite of a collocation area for our servers. ... Read more..Apartment Rental News Weekly Roundup: Q2 2009 Apartment Market Conditions
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Apartment Market Info | No Comments »
From the erudite desk of the NMHC come a press release on that organization's most recent Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions (July 2009), which modestly highlights some possible signs ... Read more..MyNewPlace Collocation
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in About Us...Really, Technology | No Comments »
Last week, MyNewPlace performed what CTO and VP of Engineering Ken Cluff described as 'open heart surgery' on our site, which involved the delicate task of moving all of our ... Read more..