Life in a Startup

MyNewPlace CTO And Co-founder Heading In A New Direction…On His Bike

If MyNewPlace weren’t already proud of our efforts to raise money for breast cancer, we now have one more reason to feel good about our role in the community:  our co-founder and former CTO Ken Cluff recently announced he is riding in Climate Ride California 2011. The ride is 320 miles over five days, a [...]

MyNewPlace AT NAA – Las Vegas, Nevada

Here is a selection of snapshots – for the full album, please visit our Facebook page!  We’d love to hear your feedback!

Keeping Your Customer Service Team Happy

Part of having a stellar customer service team that keeps your renters happy is making sure your customer service representatives are happy, too. With all the hubbub about social media and a recession it’s easy for managers to forget to take care of their own people, but that’s exactly where managers should start. The blog [...]

MyNewPlace Expands Business To The World’s Biggest Little City!

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 [...]

Congratulations To Our Juicy Couture Handbag Raffle Winners!

Check out all this loot! A couple of months ago, we invested some green in four Juicy Couture handbags to raffle off during Brainstorming. Our raffle was a success and we had four lucky winners! MyNewPlace would like to offer its congratulations to: Kim Birkholz of Dominium! (since we don’t have her picture, we’ll just [...]

MyNewPlace Employees Fight Breast Cancer with StreetFighter

As we’ve been alluding for over a week now, MyNewPlace has been involved in helping one of our employees raise money for a breast cancer cure (Susan G. Komen Foundation) and we have invited her along with one of our other employees to weigh in – on both the cause and the fund-raising effort! We [...]

Welcome to the New Digs

On April 1 we moved in to our new offices at 425 Bush Street. We're still in the process of getting settled into the new digs (you know how moving goes), but thought we would give you a little tour. Our new building… is a great old building right in between the serious business of [...]

First (Public) Milestone: An Office Move

Well, it's official. We're coming upon our first milestone of which any new start-up should be proud: our first office move. Well, technically second if you count that John (CEO and employee #1) moved out of his home office on one end of San Francisco to 607 Market Street on the other. This technically did [...]

Dogs at work…Dogs Can Blog?

Apparently, yes. I already knew they could have diaries (just ask our friends over at Dogster). But, lo and behold, dogs want to blog, too. I found this in my email inbox this morning courtesy of Zero, a 10 year old Border Collie/Mystery Mutt who made his first appearance at work this week. Here’s what [...]

From Cool Idea to Real Company

Having never worked for a start-up at such an early stage before MyNewPlace, I realize that that there are certain things I've always taken for granted in my larger company environment….the fact that putting paper in the printer doesn't require a trip to Office Depot, separate men's and women's restrooms, heck, even having a company [...]

 

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Want to calculate average rent for your city? Interested in rental trends and industry statistics? MyNewPlace has always been a big fan of using data to draw meaningful conclusions about the multifamily and apartment rental industry. Here we share our findings with you!

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