You can own the most magnificent apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but unless you sell it right, a prospective renter could just as easily rent the second most magnificent apartment on the Upper East Side, owned by your property manager nemesis, Dr. Strangerent. So how do you ensure that it’s your lease [...]

In a down economy charitable giving is often among the first corporate cutbacks, but in 2011 the Apartment Rental Industry will donate well over $1 million to charitable causes.  MyNewPlace, one of the nation’s largest apartment and home rentals websites, is one of several companies that are donating to breast cancer research and using their [...]

Security is important wherever we live, but in an apartment community where people are frequently coming and going it can be difficult to guarantee while keeping the community convenient and open. Some new security systems offer better security and more convenience for both renters and owners. Wireless Systems Although new apartment buildings can be built [...]

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 [...]

Have a great website for your apartment community up and running? Congratulations! But do you know how to understand how successful it is? If not, it’s likely you’re new to the world of web analytics. Erika Schnitzer, Managing Editor at MultiHousing News, wrote on the importance of knowing what different statistics from your website need. [...]

Is the apartment community you manage more than a few years old? Are you worried your place is being overshadowed by all of the new shiny places strutting their remote-controlled, flat-screened stuff all over the apartment listings? Don’t worry, you. Just ‘cause your building was around when student protests meant crowds in the streets, not [...]

1) A Vertical Street. Multihousing News reports a “vertical street” in the works that’s mixed use, mixing apartment units, 4 community gardens, 3 floors of office space and ground-level retail space. It’s in the city center of Melbourne, Australia. The design, developed by CK Designworks, is for a 35-story building. In addition to being mixed-use, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Let’s see what’s happening this week in the Multifamily blogs! On the MultFamily Insiders blog, Jonathan Saar brings up the question of what apartment managers should strive for with a Facebook page. In his April 20th post, “Facebook’s Impact on Multifamily Part III- Engagement or Participation?” he asks whether striving for “engagement” over “participation” is [...]