Goodbye paper checks. Hello online payments.
For Tom Villante, founder and CEO of YapStone, parent company of Rent-Payment, it was a poker table in 1999. Ty Kalklosch and Yann Phung came up with the idea for the creation of PayLease...
Taming the onsite maverick
Charleston, S.C.-based Greystar is the largest apartment operator and multifamily property manager in the United States, with over 400,000 units under management in 160 different markets. The purchasing line item to keep those units...
Welcome to paradise
Anant Yardi faced such a dilemma in the early 80s while living in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he worked as a software developer for Burroughs, a business equipment manufacturer (Burroughs merged with Sperry Univac...
House plans
The American electorate expects President-Elect Trump and the Congress to restore to the nation an economy of growth, jobs and prosperity without leaving anyone out, said Hensarling. He invited Democrats to work with Republicans...
Power play
The 2016 election upended Capitol Hill. Leading up to November 8, the presiding view was that Democrats stood a strong chance of taking the Senate while the House was expected to remain Republican, but...
Short terminal velocity
Marcie Williams is the president of Rivergate KW Residential and oversees a Class A management portfolio stretching from New York to Miami. At all of her communities, resident leases include a policy prohibiting subletting....
As the sun rises, so does opportunity
I believed her. In the mind of a child, life is simple. As it should be. It’s not as though anyone in that classroom, the school or even the community was on an obvious trajectory...
From housekeeper to the C-suite: A multifamily success story
The hotel that was managed by Consolidated Management, Inc., (CMI) asked Tony to move in to provide security on the weekends and the couple was happy to leave the apartment where they were behind...
Thanks for stopping by, Jerry.
Jerry was my friend and a friend to so many in multifamily. A big personality and an even bigger heart. A showman and promoter. Generous and caring. At times perplexing, but always a mentor...
Will Amazon kill FedEx?
In 2010 its annual revenue was $34 billion; last year, $107 billion. In 2010 the company employed 33,700 workers. By this June, it had 268,900. To have enough office space for its swelling headquarters...
Supplier side insights
As co-founder and CEO of Riverstone Residential, Danner spent the past decade in various leadership roles growing the former property management arm of Trammell Crow Residential (TCR) that was purchased by Greystar in 2014. One...
Fair housing demystified
When she was 14, she became friends with Ruby, a black girl, who worked in her aunt’s hair salon in McKinney, Texas, and had many conversations with her about how the black kids were...
True integration
As smartphones and other mobile devices overtake the desktop computer in popularity, apps for anything and everything abound, from ordering a pizza or Uber car, booking a hotel, or signing documents. Start-ups continue to...
Multifamily’s great reno invasion
Among those speakers was Chip Gaines, who recounted his experience doing facelifts on single-family homes in Waco, Texas, during his presentation at the conference. Chip, who shares the spotlight with his wife Joanna on...
Choose courage
The growth that once propelled America and generated expansion, upward mobility and a pervasive prosperity is now the weakest in at least seven decades. So we’re anxious. Still, there are points of light like consumer spending,...
