Tag: Article
Environmentally-Friendly Property Management
AP: What's you background? And how did you get to manage the country's first "green" apartment high-rise, the Solaire? Michael: My background is mechanical engineering....
RealPage Goes for the Gold
In Colorado, RealPage CEO Steve Winn shows clients new tools for reaching higher levels of performance. The greatest athletes in the world all strive for...
Breast Cancer Awareness
Over two million women living in the US have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. Yet focusing on the scary side of...
Green Building Goes Mainstream
Green building is gaining national attention as a growing number of government agencies, commercial developers, and home builders, are making environmental performance a priority....
Why Wiring Matters
Baseball, hotdogs and a Saturday afternoon at the ballpark. Life couldn't get any simpler. That is, until you observe the person sitting next to...
The Next Big Thing
What is the next big thing? Is there a technology lurking around the corner with the potential to change the way we do everything,...
Technology and service make choosing SBC a smart move
In a company considered the nation's number two local phone outfit behind Verizon Wireless, it might seem easy to get lost in the shuffle....
Reinventing Customer Service
Running water, working heat, timely repair, clean apartments, trimmed lawns and a measure of civility. These were the standards of good service in rental...
NAHB project of the year: Epicenter, Seattle
Award-winning design integrates a development into its surrounding environment and even transcends it, making the property stand out in a captivating way. This year's...
2004 Pillars of the Industry Award Winners
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced the winners of its 2004 Pillars of the Industry Awards. The Pillars Awards, considered the most...
Sell smarter
One look at the apartment industry today quickly tells you this is not your father's business. Aided by widespread adoption of technology and driven...
Trailblazer: Laurie Lustig-Bower
Laurie Lustig-Bower is a driven woman. As a teenager, she submitted 57,000 entry forms to win a horse at a national competition. It took...
Pillars of the Industry Awards
It's official: the basic box is dead. That holdover from the fifties, the flat-roofed, flat-walled rectangular building that passed for multifamily housing for so...
Diversity factoids
WOMEN MORE COMMITTED TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women entrepreneurs, 26.6 percent, are more likely than their male counterparts, 17 percent, to stick with their self-employment plan even...
How will the new spending bill impact affordable housing?
As I write this column, the Senate is close to considering the omnibus appropriations bill to fund HUD and other programs for FY 03/04....
