A great deal of ruin in a nation
Asked if the loss of the American colonies would mean ruin for Britain, Adam Smith replied, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” Even after the loss, Britain went on to...
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...
The trillion dollar consolidation
The returns that large-scale single-family rentals (SFR) are producing are now measuring up to institutional standards and the management is under control. It wasn’t pretty, but the naysayers who said it was impossible to...
Cheap, the new chic
By the time she started her YesIAmCheap.com blog in January 2009 as a way to make herself more accountable for her spending, her business had failed and she was $105,665.31 in debt. Today, the...
Lincoln leadership lessons
Here’s what Honest Abe did, why it works and how it can make you a better leader.
Get out of the office and circulate among the troops
In 1861 Lincoln spent more time outside the White...
Fighting the CDC eviction ban
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) took the unprecedented step of banning evictions nation-wide, characterizing the action as a public health measure.
The action spawned lawsuits across the...
Best cities for multifamily, 2022
National multifamily occupancy rates are at record levels, with markets across the country seeing a strong increase in rents. According to RealPage, nationwide effective rents have increased 8.3 percent, the greatest gain since 2010....
History repeats itself
It’s happening again.
Once, knowledge was sequestered away on manuscripts in Monasteries only to be set free by the printing press. Suddenly, the Renaissance. The Reformation. The Industrial Revolution.
Men read, collaborated and created. Our modern...
The powerful effect of noticing good things at work
If someone were to tell you to focus only on the positive experiences in your day, you might be annoyed. People tend to associate Pollyanna-type positivity with inexperienced managers trying to squeeze a little...
Quick. Someone get us a new business model.
In Jeff Thull's classic business book, Mastering the Complex Sale, he stresses the importance of a salesperson first listening, then unraveling a customer's problem to mutually align with the customer for a viable solution.
Most...
Older Americans on the move
More than 7 million Americans moved between states in 2012, the highest number of long-distance moves in four years, according to new data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, its most comprehensive snapshot...
Parable of the Post-It
I'm rather tall, so I figured I had already won the game and sat back down with a smile.
"Now," he said, "I want you to take that same Post-In note and move it higher."
Here's...
The lion’s roar
Indeed, the world is an unbelievably amazing place, rich and beautiful and full of wonder.
Still, some things may simply be too hard to believe, like sleeping in a tent on the Masai Mara in...
Benchmarking rules tighten
There’s an unexpected piece of paper taped to the glass entrance of 550 Vanderbilt, a luxury, high-rise in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Visitors might see it as they enter Ciao Gloria, the...
Ready for launch
"We think it's a great time to grow these enterprises," said UDR CEO Tom Toomey of the expansion in the apartment industry. "You can't sit there and look at the wall of demand that...
