Monthly Archives: May 2011

Hosting a large party in a small space? It can be done if you plan ahead and make the best use of your space. Forget about a formal sit-down dinner. In a small apartment, setting up a large dinner table with enough chairs for everyone and enough elbow space around each of your guests can [...]

Apartment repairs. It’s where the rubber hits the road. You claim to offer great customer service and renter satisfaction. But do you deliver? As a manager, people are paying you not only to provide a roof over their heads, but also to keep that roof in good condition long after they sign the lease. Here [...]

Get a jump on new water use laws As water gets scarcer, stricter monitoring and construction requirements are appearing. According to a MultiHousing News Online article by Managing Editor Erika Schnitzer, by 2013 36 states will face water shortages. As such, the multifamily industry should follow water shortage news closely: water, unlike energy, is truly [...]

Loft Dwelling Evolves in NYC! 4 Lessons from Loft History A law enacted by the New York State Legislature last June gave tenants in loft apartments the same rights as those in regular residential buildings. But the law has ruffled feathers of a few loft landlords, and city agencies have taken a long time to [...]

Stressed at the thought of yet another online presence to monitor? Don’t be! I joined and have snooped around a bit, and my verdict is that InMultifamily will be a productive community, useful for industry members who want to network, get contact information of peers fast, and publicize events and news. Here’s a quick rundown: [...]

Ready… to enhance your apartment-dwelling experience? Get set (with a creative mindset)… then GO! To Etsy.com. Its name reminds me of the song about the itsy bitsy spider, but Etsy is anything but small: it’s a global online marketplace where all things handmade can be bought and sold, and it has tons of awesome ideas [...]

Equity Residential, the nation’s largest owner and operator of apartment complexes, and Zipcar, the world’s largest car sharing network, are teaming up to bring Zipcars into the hands of Equity’s residents. The partnership will begin in a few key urban areas, though if things go well between the two companies, it is likely that the [...]

Searching for a new roommate isn’t easy. There are plenty of nuts out there posting ads for new roommates and it’s often necessary to pick through the crazy to find the roommates that would be possible to live with. Here are some of the most unreasonable roommate requests found on craigslist. 1. Male or Female [...]

MultiHousing News ran a recent article discussing ways cloud computing is transforming apartment management. Instead of needing to install hardware and software to manage disparate parts of apartment management, with cloud computing managers can increasingly outsource execution of programs related to managing data and delivering services. The term “cloud” management comes from the cloud-like symbol [...]

If you take your cues from celebrities, I have news for you. Some celebrities live in apartments. And some tiny apartment-dwellers become celebrities. So, either way, there is hope This month it’s all about NYC: Earlier in the month, it was reported that friends Kim Kardashian and La La Vasquez, spouse of Carmelo Anthony, have [...]