Secrets to building a happy team
Every year multifamily operators spend thousands of dollars hiring and training new staff. According to the 2007 National Apartment Survey of Compensation and Benefits Practices conducted by the National Multi- Housing Council, the typical...
Should hiring be based on gut—or data?
These are questions a lot of companies would like better answers to, considering the critical importance of people to a business’s success and the high costs associated with recruiting, onboarding, hiring and firing. At...
Supreme Court Backs Eminent Domain Powers
The high court sided with the city of New London, Conn. in a lawsuit brought against it by nine homeowners. The city sought to seize the homes and bulldoze them to make way for...
Core values: the new assets
"And we're serious about that," said Oden in a late February interview. "We're just as serious about that one as we are about acting with integrity," he said, citing another of the nine values...
AP Budget-Season Primer: a roadmap to increased profitability.
Because of their hectic schedules, many property owners and managers put off budget planning until the deadline approaches. But operating without a detailed budget -- prepared with proper time and care -- is like...
Realtors bring in the big ad guns
The gigantic trade group is determined to convince everyone it's a good time to buy, a good time to sell, and a good time to hire a Realtor if you want to do either.
The...
Educating e-boomers
And, thanks to the support of the three-year-old Georgia Apartment Industry Education Foundation (GAIEF), many of them are receiving university-level instruction in the Peachtree State to better prepare them for jobs in the rental...
Some REITs like small
Even in the throes of what some are calling the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, some real estate investment trusts -- those owning apartment buildings and self-storage facilities -- have held up...
Surety bonds: the un-concession
According to a study of nationwide rents by Novato, Calif.-based data specialist RealFacts, rents and occupancy declined in nearly every market in the country between September and December of 2008, suggesting that renters looking...
Goodwill hawking: Goldberg Company
The message from Senior VP Jordan Goldberg on the company's recently launched Web site, www.layoffproof lease.com invites renters to stop worrying and start living.
It goes on to explain that if they sign a 12-month...
Pick one, then keep it to yourself.
At her previous job, Samantha Smith, was the lone conservative in a 10-person office--something her more liberal co-workers were happy to tease her about after she shared her views on hot-button issues like same-sex...
Student Housing Grows Up
The growing university housing market proves lucrative for savvy developers who keep up with the evolving needs of students. AP looks at three management firms who are doing their homework.
Students today expect certain technological...
Make $23K more every year
That's the average gap in earnings between adults with bachelor's degrees and those with high school diplomas, according to data from the Census Bureau.
College graduates made an average of $51,554 in 2004, the most...
What’s Really Wrong with Fair Housing?
This past April the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), a consortium of civil rights groups, attacked the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for what it called...
