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The $700,000 late fee: when time is not on your side
In early 2006, Houston, Texas-based Alliance Residential Management, LLC. (not to be confused with other firms by similar names in Phoenix and Chicago) managed...
Leveraging your greatest asset
Kimberly Andreadis, an industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in the multifamily industry and strategist, trainer and founder of Marketing Path...
The smell of success
But the idea that came to him in 1976, while savoring the rich sensory experience in a lush redwood forest, prompting him to investigate...
Something in the air
"Smells are surer than sounds or sights to make your heartstrings crack," wrote Rudyard Kipling in his 1903 poem "Lichtenberg", capturing in verse what...
Tiptoe through the tulips
"There's no finer ambassador of quality than the tulip," Todd Tibbitts, senior VP of property services at Post Properties, said recently, adding that the...
Integration evolution
Apartment owners and managers have retooled their Internet strategies to allow prospective renters to visit apartment communities online, see pricing and availability that changes...
Rent by numbers
Yield management tools adopted from successful applications in the hospitality and airline industries are among the latest integrations to capture the minds and bottom...
A doctor in the house
Internhousing.com and NurseHousing.com--subsidiaries of Key Housing Connections Inc., a California-based corporate housing provider--are comprehensive online resources that enable clients to arrange short- term housing...
Y should you care?
Today, the oldest members of Generation Y are about 27 years old though there has yet to be solid consensus on its start/end dates. The...
In the lap of luxury
Apartment owners and managers also have observed that recent trend. Nearly 80 percent of those responding to the National Multi Housing Council's (NMHC) Quarterly Survey...
Sub-prime bail out
Encouraged by the housing bubble, easy credit, along with the expectation that housing prices would continue to appreciate, many subprime borrowers took out mortgages...
Multifamily’s TKO
Over the past ten years, the 35-year-old Olympic gold medalist, ten- time world title holder in a record six weight classes and Grammy-nominated recording...
One punch can change everything
Association, after all, is pivotal to human existence. We touch on the association of smell and its impact on leasing apartments in our story, "Clearing...
When family IS business
When your family business involves an extended network of 52 family shareholders, as it does for Bukit Kiara Properties, a real estate development firm,...
Sunny side up
As many real estate markets cool off substantially and others spiral downward in the wake of the mortgage market meltdown in an economy struggling...
