Americans are on edge
From the continuing ebb and flow of jobs, to growing threats of terror, to something as simple as water—there is barely a moment of our daily lives that is not overshadowed with uncertainty, framed...
The camel that had no hump
This especially irritates Rob Pressman, the principal of Burbank, Calif.-based TGP, Inc. Landscape Architecture, who believes that aesthetics do not have to be discarded for the sake of sustainability. Multifamily developers employ landscape architects like...
You should go and love yourself
Property management software might be a lot like that. Without context, we all just keep repeating the same behavior, not really thinking about if makes sense. So let’s go back to the basics for a...
Click. Click. Click.
The commercial banks that make most construction loans to apartment developers are beginning to be more careful. That’s because of worries about the many new apartments now under construction, new bank regulations already on...
Not your father’s utility management program
Each grew up with, and eventually stepped in to run their family’s apartment business. Each took the baton and carried their multifamily enterprise into the next generation, and continues to grow their operation to...
Haystack or a needle?
The event was opened by Reed, who also announced that his company and host of the event, NWP, had been acquired by Dallas, Texas-based, RealPage just days before. He described the transaction as the...
Supreme Court electrifies U.S. energy market
A consequential energy case that cuts to the heart of the delicate balance between state and federal regulation of the country’s electricity markets has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the...
Star bright, starlight
Today, the Washington, D.C. firm is largely accepted as the reigning online provider of commercial real estate (CRE) data and related services for every sector—retail, office, industrial, farm property, raw land, small businesses and,...
Tell me my lying eyes are wrong
The stock market continues to free fall, as do oil prices, even as the dollar strengthens against the whims of China. U.S. growth, as measured by GDP, sighed softly in Q4 to an estimated...
Balancing the new online economy and apartment operations
Many apartment owners and managers are adopting digital electronic locker systems and the software that operates them to address that predicament. Lori Torres, founder and CEO of Parcel Pending, credits her property management experience with...
Great Scott!
It also may have been planned perfectly that MRI Software, headquartered in Solon, Ohio, concluded its International Users Conference on October 21, 2015, a fitting end to a dynamic event for this 44-year-old company...
Love, actually
Fresh off the clipboards, the National Multihousing Council (NMHC)/Kingsley Associates 2015 Apartment Resident Preferences Survey is out. Findings were calculated from 120,000 responses across the country and covered renter’s preferences on in-home features, community...
Utility management’s role in maintaining your budget
There are several components that make up an efficient utility management program. Resident utility billing, vacant cost recovery, accurate budgeting tools, advanced analytics, and proactive utility management and alerts all play a part in...
The right way to hold people accountable
That’s when John lost it. “You agreed to the numbers in our budget meeting! You came up with them!” Jeanine was silent for a while. Then she stammered out a weak defense that John promptly...
Problematic residents
That’s when apartment living becomes tedious, and when your neighbors can feel more like adversaries. The vast majority of apartment residents are decent folks who wouldn’t dream of disrupting life in their buildings by being...
