Come together right now
From the minute you meet Natalie, you know she is meant for greatness. She exudes poise and strength, well beyond her years. And she is determined.
Jeff Stack, managing director of Sares-Regis, is a multifamily...
Where the buck stops
Simply put, green value is beginning to trump green hype, says sustainability consultant and certified green building professional Jim Simcoe, who made some predictions about the green building arena at the end of 2010.
For...
Renters talk with their wallets
Fifty-three percent of the 1,053 renters surveyed by Strata Research for HD Supply Facilities Maintenance Star said they would. Of those, eight percent said they definitely would. The survey was conducted last December among...
Tune-in. Plug-in.
SemaConnect, a start-up company in Baltimore, Md., is offering apartment owners the opportunity to plug into the electric car trend and earn ancillary income in the process.
Founded just two years ago, SemaConnect is offering...
Referrals work
We studied 10,000 accounts in a large bank over a period of three years, and found that customers obtained through referrals are both more loyal and more valuable than other customers. After controlling for...
Killing the electric car… again
The advent of plug-in cars, or "EVs," has been hyped-up beyond the fad level. There now may be 3,000 plug-in cars out of our national fleet of 300,000,000 oil-fired cars. Even under the most...
A primer in tribalism
You know, like, "I'm a Mac," or "I'm a PC."
That's called tribalism.
Back in the day, the unity of the tribe, in its purist form, was based on kinship. If you weren't kin, you were...
Bring the best of America into your business
This staggering rate of attrition costs employers a great deal of money, and makes it a constant challenge to find qualified, reliable people to hire for leasing positions such as managers, maintenance techs and...
Change in the air
What is yet unclear is what will replace them.
The GSEs are blamed in large part for the single-family finance bubble that led to the current economic downturn, and the country's leaders believe GSE reform...
How to garner the right kind of attention
No matter how talented or accomplished you are, you cannot always count on attracting and retaining the attention of others. Too many options compete for everyone's attention, and they multiply with each passing day....
HUD gets a haircut
In line with President Barack Obama's directive to cut the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade, HUD's budget creates no new programs and proposes additional funding only for programs that assist the...
In a twist
The survey of nearly 1,000 adults found that 77 percent of Americans are stressed about work. What are workers stressed about?
14 percent cite low pay
11 percent, commuting
9 percent, an unreasonable workload
...
Is criticism more effective than praise?
If you do, you're only human. Paying more attention to what's wrong isn't wrongheaded or perverse. In fact, you could say you do it because, in your experience, criticism produces better results than praise....
What is a QR code and why do you need one?
What are QR codes?
They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response; they can be read quickly by a cell phone. They are used to take...
The power of 2
"In partnering on seven deals last year with Rich Devaney and the Crossbeam team, I realized a merger could give us the financial leverage and additional acquisition talent to move quicker in identifying and...
