That upon which you focus, becomes your reality
A ship once found itself lost at sea. After a time, the crew’s drinking water ran seriously low. The parched sailors were certain they would die until, miraculously, another ship came within view.
The distressed...
Uptown, turnaround Jerry Brown
On a coast filled with dreamy, seaside cities, Oakland is more like a Midwestern industrial town dropped far from home. Mayor Brown points out, “most of the people who work downtown, live elsewhere. They...
Let the good times roll
The multifamily sector, especially rental apartment buildings, has been playing a hot hand in 2014 as it demonstrated sustained underlying strength.
Even as new apartment construction levels hit the highest monthly construction pace since the...
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...
Where rents still rise
A report on the 2017 national rental market, released by RENTCafe shows that rent increases in large cities (with a population of 600,000 or more) slowed down and lagged behind the national average.
In contrast,...
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 Coconut Grove nightclub and host of the 1930 Academy Awards,...
Emotional boundaries
Filter 1: Protect yourself from others. I once worked with a manager who gave blunt feedback in perpetuity: "You're not a grateful person!" and "You're just not a great writer!" and "Well, that was...
