Paradigm shift
The partners, who come from family-owned multifamily businesses with a combined 150 years of experience, plan to redefine the future of urban rental living...
Everyone loves to be sold
The common thread throughout this wide and diverse sea of goods is identifying a solid value to the intended market. Here’s a secret. Selling is...
First, do no harm
“There was a conversation about how we need to do something proactive with the idea of mobilizing our grassroots network to get them involved...
Room service
See if this sounds familiar. You’ve got a marquee property, great management, and a well-recognized brand, but attracting and converting prospects is a non-stop...
Coming to America
Immigration has become an increasingly prevalent and often polarizing topic within policy discussions, and its effect on the apartment industry cannot be understated. Immigrants...
The kind of guys you’d want to work for. Says you.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” That is certainly...
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less
This serial entrepreneur definitely knows the upside of risk. In the late 80s while Jones worked for American Airlines, the company’s CIO directed Jone’s...
A gem regains its luster and a city gains apartments
On a plot of land between Immanuel Presbyterian Church, now listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and the Ambassador Hotel, home of the...
Solving the affordable housing crisis
MacDonald pointed to the increasing cost of complying with regulations, building material price inflation and shortages of both labor and building sites as factors...
Planting the seeds of knowledge
Such programs, however, are rare: the National Apartment Association Education Institution (NAAEI) reports that out of 4,140 institutions in the U.S., only about forty-five...
The other high barrier market
In rural towns and tertiary markets, investors can earn superior yields on apartment properties, according to some multifamily investment experts. “A smart investor with a...
Weed and work
A growing number of states in the U.S.—and countries around the world—are legalizing or decriminalizing recreational and medical marijuana, forcing businesses to grapple with...
NAA: Lest we forget
Year after year, apartment professionals gather, catch up on news, meet with old friends and make new ones. NAA’s conference every June, for as...
How AI will change the way we make decisions
Rather than trying to predict specifics, we suggest an alternative approach. Economic theory suggests that AI will substantially raise the value of human judgment....
Single-family landlords sink cash into Rust Belt rentals
Beahn buys and renovates a single-family home, hires a property manager and finds a tenant—then sells the whole package to an investor. He works...
Time to restore local control over zoning—and end Obama’s HUD intrusion
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing allowed HUD to halt distribution of more than $3 billion of annual community development block grants to about 1,200 counties...
