News in the multifamily blogs this past week touched on social media, mobile banking, and an exciting new development breaking ground in the heart of Washington D.C. First, social media. The Resident Portal Blog discusses the importance of delivering stellar customer service even when requests reach you through the web, rather than through face-to-face or [...]

New chatter in the multifamily industry blogs this week ranges from eco and exciting to demographically intriguing, and also touches on sound management practices too. First, let’s get down to green business. According to MultiHousing News blog Chicago’s Flair Tower got the prestigious LEED Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. (Quick recap: LEED [...]

Feeling like you’re on the cusp of an employment breakthrough? Thinking of getting an apartment with pals instead of sharing your parents’ basement with lidless Tupperwares and your sister’s gymnastics trophies? Does the thought of owning a home make your palms sweat? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, pay attention: the Economist, [...]

Those of us keeping an eye on the apartment industry have lately been flooded with articles predicting rent hikes (well, lately might be stretching it — ‘rent hike’ articles have been trickling out of the mainstream media for well over a year now). As a renter myself, as well as writer for the apartment industry, [...]

Craigslist Housing Swap: Our Treehouse in Maui for your studio in SF (3-9-11) “We are a couple in our late 50′s that live on an acre on the East coast of Maui – near Hana. We have a cabin and a Treehouse that we would like to exchange for the month of April. We have [...]

To say “Lindsay Lohan has had a rough summer” is probably the understatement of the decade. For while it is probably impossible to speculate what precisely is going on in the addled mind of the addict, it looks to the casual observer like her recent admission into a southern California rehab facility is either a [...]

Though not quite so scandalous as she was a decade ago, Angelina Jolie still manages to create a media frenzy pretty much every time she opens her mouth. As of this morning the most recent gossip is the following: Angelina Jolie HAS NO FRIENDS!! What? Interviewed from Pakistan by CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Jolie spoke at [...]

Local alleged lump of human garbage Rachael Marie Smith has been arrested for using Craigslist to scam potential renters out of their deposits. Ms. Smith advertised her apartment on Craigslist, accepted deposits from several renters and then postponed their move in date, claiming that her mother was sick with cancer. The scam was uncovered when [...]

To find ideas for the blog, sometimes we browse through the Google alerts that we have set up around such terms as apartment living, LEED apartment buildings, off campus apartments, etc. Police Find Coyote Caged in Cape Cod Apartment – To be honest we don’t know why these people weren’t awarded an honorary police badge. [...]

Well we knew she was sexy and Russian, but we had no idea that she was working for the KGB. When NYCRentals.com entrepreneur and now alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman came into the MyNewPlace offices to pitch her idea of an apartment aggregator for New York City, we thought, at first, that it was nothing [...]