Monthly Archives: March 2011

On January 12th, 2011, we announced our MyNewPlace PINK Campaign in partnership with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). While the lucky and healthy among us perhaps only hear about this devastating illness during October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month – there are those of us (including many at MyNewPlace) for whom breast cancer is [...]

This month it was apparent that even celebrities felt the urge for spring cleaning. While we humble hominids think of spring cleaning as a yard sale, or a re-organized closet, celebs clearly interpret a spring clean as a fresh multi-million dollar estate or a new relationship; often both. Russell Crowe and his wife Danielle Spencer [...]

MyNewPlace Announces Mobile Website Product for Property Marketers Effective Lease-Generating Mobile Website Based on Proven Design Is your apartment rental company receiving leads through mobile channels? Could you be generating more? Today MyNewPlace is launching Mobile Portal, a mobile-optimized website solution for its growing Marketing Services product line.  Our enormous site traffic  provides us with [...]

Those of us keeping an eye on the apartment industry have lately been flooded with articles predicting rent hikes (well, lately might be stretching it — ‘rent hike’ articles have been trickling out of the mainstream media for well over a year now). As a renter myself, as well as writer for the apartment industry, [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Visit the MyNewPlace Facebook page for more giveaways, info, and updates!

Craigslist Housing Swap: Our Treehouse in Maui for your studio in SF (3-9-11) “We are a couple in our late 50′s that live on an acre on the East coast of Maui – near Hana. We have a cabin and a Treehouse that we would like to exchange for the month of April. We have [...]

By MyNewPlace Guest Blogger Autumnn Darden of Upack! We’ve all heard the sayings: ‘music is what feeling sounds like’, or ‘music is the universal language…you get the drift. Unfortunately, music can’t pack and load your items into a moving truck for you. However, music can be a great motivator, which comes in pretty handy when [...]

The next time your door-hinges need fixing or your faucet is dripping, ask your technician if he is a champion…because he very well may be! The National Apartment Association (NAA) has recently launched a website for Maintenance Mania. Sound intriguing? Maintenance Mania is a series of competitions run by the NAA for NAA affiliated technicians. [...]

We are growing! MyNewPlace, headquartered in San Francisco since we opened up shop in 2005, is opening a satellite office in Reno, NV this month. The new office will act in part as an extension of our client services division and will initially create up to 20 jobs for a region that was hit perhaps [...]

So you’ve convinced the landlord that your new pet will be a perfect fit in your apartment. Here are some tips to ensure that your furry new friend will smell like roses to your landlord (and to your security deposit). For a puppy: The most practiced technique of house-training is the “paper towel method”. When [...]