Monthly Archives: June 2011

As the housing market goes down so the rental market goes up. Those of us who are renters have watched the prices for new homes go down, the number of jobs out there diminish, and the amount our hard-earned money is worth sink, as inflation, the price of gas and the cost of rent all [...]

Three and a half years after the start of the Great Recession and two years after it officially ended, Americans are still worried about the anemic economy.  The unemployment rate is stubbornly high at 9.1% and first-quarter GDP growth was a weak 1.8%.  There’s been a lot of talk in the media about the risk [...]

MyNewPlace writer Crystal Beran is spending the summer in France. She shares with us her assessment of Paris apartments. Everything is smaller in Paris, from the cobblestone streets that buses just barely (and quite amazingly) squeeze through, to the adorable Smart Cars zipping up and down the Champs Elysees to the elevator that carries a [...]

On Your Marks… The three most important things in real estate are location, location, and location. The list for multifamily housing has always been more interesting and may soon become even more so with the inclusion of something unexpected: speed. Specifically, Internet speed for residents. As people spend more time online and more electronic devices [...]

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Note: MyNewPlace.com has since joined RealPage’s family of websites offering property management software solutions and professional property based site-building services. Today Multifamily Technology Solutions, parent company of MyNewPlace.com announced RentEngine Marketing Solutions, a family of smart, easy and complete marketing services and tools designed for the multifamily industry.  RentEngine provides a full suite of web [...]

When the financial crisis struck in 2008 and recession ensued, environmentalists began to worry.  As people lost their jobs and started worrying about how to pay the rent, they wouldn’t have time to think about reducing their energy use, recycling, or any of the other beneficial environmental activities that had begun to take hold in [...]

Tablet computers offer on-the-go computing, and with 3G enabled Internet access from just about anywhere. Adding these to the toolkit of an apartment community’s office can streamline productivity and make managing the premises much more efficient. Here are a few ways to use a tablet when managing an apartment community. 1. Keep track of units. [...]

QR Codes In recent years, cryptic symbols have begun appearing in magazines, on flyers, and across billboards. These mysterious boxes are known as QR codes:  printed barcodes that can be read by smartphones to link to URL, text, or other data. As the National Apartment Association’s Lauren Boston reports, marketers are intrigued by the codes’ [...]

The long hours of sunlight and warm days of the summer months are the perfect time to start a new garden. Though we tend to think of gardens as a feature of homes with large yards, those of us confined to balconies and windows boxes can still create plenty of space to grow flowers, herbs [...]