Tag: Article
It’s Not Your Father’s Retirement
Stop by the recreation room for the typical "active adults" housing community these days, and you might have trouble stirring up a game of...
Why Rent.com Sold for $415M Cash.
eBay's purchase of Rent.com for $415 million should trigger a moment of pause for all apartment professionals. The ability of CEO Scott Ingraham, President...
Translation Nation
The top brass at San Francisco real estate investment trust BRE Properties flies down to San Diego for a crash course in Mexican culture. United...
Hire Power
"It's hard to find good people. They just don't walk in off the street everyday." Rita Grazda, senior director of human resources at Alexandria,...
An Industry at Odds
HUD has always been important to the multifamily industry. The question with this HUD secretary is, is multifamily important to HUD? Amidst the buzz of...
Sexual Harassment at Work
Prudent employers have trained managers and employees on preventing unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace for years. Such training helps employers avoid conflicts...
Hollywood Renaissance
Few cities have the power to evoke lifestyle images the way Hollywood does. Or did. Until recently the city of cinematic legend was one of the most undesirable addresses...
The Fannie Mae Crisis
The discovery of accounting frauds at the nation's two largest GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises), Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by regulatory agencies and the...
What’s Really Wrong with Fair Housing?
This past April the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), a consortium of civil rights groups, attacked the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
HUD Secretary Jackson Talks Multifamily
Jackson has extensive housing, finance and management experience having directed public housing authorities in St. Louis, Washington, DC and Dallas. Jackson also served as...
The Power of Networks
It's a truism that we live in a networked age: computers connected to each other; phone systems connected to computers; customer data linked to...
Healthy Buildings. Healthy People.
Green building advocates and environmental scientists have brought a new level of awareness to the impact that buildings -- most notably through energy use...
At Long Last, Optimism for 2005
The days of high vacancy rates and the industry's long battle with concessionitis, may soon be a distant memory say experts from leading apartment...
Call Center Magic
Today's call center is the interactive communication channel between customer and organization in the multifamily industry. It is the forum that drives sales, leases...
OnLine Democracy
It's one thing to establish a company that builds a reputation for innovation, quality and service. To achieve this in an intensely competitive field...
