Two Birds, One Green Stone Once in a (VERY) great while, the interests of activists and businesspeople align.  One such miraculous alignment has emerged recently in the apartment industry:   increasing energy efficiency of buildings, to the mutual benefit of the planet and whoever is paying the electric bills. With many ways for buildings to reduce [...]

I’ve heard it said that a post-climate change world will require a much less materialistic culture, fewer “things” per person.  If that’s the case, you might want to grab these items before they disappear like so much ozone.  Sure, you’ve never given them a second thought—maybe you’ve never even heard of them.  But as a [...]

A chore chart is a great way to make sure that all of your roommates pitch in when dealing with the common areas. In order to make a chart, you’ll need to sit down with your roommates and decide which tasks you’ll individually be responsible for and which one’s you’ll work on together. If you’re [...]

As anyone who has searched for one knows, choosing an apartment is a big decision. Apartment hunters want as much information as they can get to help them locate the ideal place and technology gives them more ways than ever to find it.  Here are five trends shaping the way renters find apartments in the [...]

Using social media is a great way for companies to reach out to and connect with their clients. In the realm of apartment rentals, multifamily companies often use social networking tools, such as Facebook and Twitter to advertise and contact new and current tenants. There’s a new social networking tool out there and already its [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]