Mental illness is real, but we can’t talk about it
I was stymied by a bubbling major depression, which would have been my third since November, so I consulted with my psychiatrist about switching medications. The thing about psychoactive medication is that isn’t like switching...
Demand for student housing slows
Student housing properties leased up more slowly this year, though they still started the academic year fully-occupied on average, according to several industry sources. “The student housing market moderated this year,” says Taylor Gunn, student...
Awakening compassion at work
But we can easily overlook the importance of these bonds. As popular writer and researcher Adam Grant has noted, the pressure of tight deadlines and the pace of technology mean that fewer Americans are...
Introducing compassion to your workplace has big benefits
Compassion not only improves workplace culture, but it can also help a company’s bottom line. Employee retention Would you want to work for a boss who yells at you when you call in sick? Or would...
Four-legged residents
“It’s all about the dogs,” Woodbranch Management President Philip Schneidau said. “Seriously, you really have to take care of the dogs.” Woodbranch Management is the team behind one of Downtown Houston’s hottest multifamily developments, Market...
Shifting the power with an abusive boss
This flip approach is based on the understanding that power structures within organizations are malleable over time. Power at its core arises from dependency. The more one depends on another for reaching goals and...
5 Ways to focus at crunch time
Unexpected setbacks, project sprints, or even vacations and holidays can create mayhem and tension. Maintaining focus and managing energy levels become critical as tasks pile onto an already full load. When you’re in your...
Tax reform has potential to solve the housing affordability crisis
“Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for risk, investment and effort.” You might be forgiven if you...
Paradigm shift
The partners, who come from family-owned multifamily businesses with a combined 150 years of experience, plan to redefine the future of urban rental living by developing and managing apartment communities based on five principles:...
Everyone loves to be sold
The common thread throughout this wide and diverse sea of goods is identifying a solid value to the intended market. Here’s a secret. Selling is not that hard. If you understand human behavior, you’re practically...
First, do no harm
“There was a conversation about how we need to do something proactive with the idea of mobilizing our grassroots network to get them involved in the process,” said NAA President and CEO Robert Pinnegar...
Room service
See if this sounds familiar. You’ve got a marquee property, great management, and a well-recognized brand, but attracting and converting prospects is a non-stop job of cutting through the online static, only to hopefully...
Coming to America
Immigration has become an increasingly prevalent and often polarizing topic within policy discussions, and its effect on the apartment industry cannot be understated. Immigrants are not only a vital component of the industry’s workforce,...
The kind of guys you’d want to work for. Says you.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” That is certainly the case of the 100 leaders of large companies around...
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less
This serial entrepreneur definitely knows the upside of risk. In the late 80s while Jones worked for American Airlines, the company’s CIO directed Jone’s department to put the Sabre system online with AOL. This...
