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Every Card has Two Sides
Credit card companies tout the convenience and cost savings of recurring electronic rent payments for property managers. Here's why they should charge ahead... but...
The John Hopkins University Housing Scene: Dressing up Charles Village
What do Johns Hopkins' serious-minded students want in the way of off-campus housing? JHU off-campus coordinator Mireille Miller will tell you there's almost no...
The NMHC Student Housing Conference: Buiding for the Echo Boom
Each year, the D.C.-based Student Housing Conference helps senior execs avoid mistakes -- and fire up profits -- in the sizzling student housing niche. At...
Industry Ad Vantages
In what has become a media market increasingly cluttered with fishing poles, today's multifamily advertising agencies have to be more creative than ever to...
How the Other 1 Percent of 1Percent Lives
As luxury multifamily housing development goes, call 80 South Street the high, high end. Last year, the design world buzzed with the conceptual renderings of...
Spinning a More Efficient Laundry Room
With energy costs on the rise, apartment owners could save thousands of dollars each year by retrofitting laundry rooms with energy-efficient equipment. A new study...
Senior Housing
Southern California Community Targets Creative Minds. Only in Burbank? Why not. The Southern California suburb has gradually filled with writers, actors, makeup artists, editors, cinematographers, EPs, DPs,...
Condo Conversions Carry On
Sales of apartments to converters generated a record $13.3 billion last year, and this year's numbers could be even higher. But has the market...
The PMA’s Practical Magic.
The Property Management Association in Washington, D.C., is the biggest little regional nonprofit of its kind. Boasting a membership of 600 property management pros...
Masters of Disaster
A boom in the sale of disaster-proofing materials is being fueled by changing building codes and runaway insurance costs. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes and floods...
AP Budget-Season Primer: a roadmap to increased profitability.
Because of their hectic schedules, many property owners and managers put off budget planning until the deadline approaches. But operating without a detailed budget...
Supreme Court Backs Eminent Domain Powers
The high court sided with the city of New London, Conn. in a lawsuit brought against it by nine homeowners. The city sought to...
Fed Raises Rate Again
On August 9, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by another quarter-point. The move, in response to inflationary pressures that include growing energy...
Nobody’s Perfect…..Yet
Nobody's perfect -- not at work, not anyplace else -- thank goodness. Still, if you ask the execs at human resources/staffing consulting firm Talent Plus,...
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