Archive | January, 2010

25 January 2010 ~ 8 Comments

Get More Out of Your Property Tours

This week, we wanted to go on-site and explore one of the more time-honored traditions of apartment marketing — the property tour. Let’s get right to the recap, shall we? What is the one mistake that you see too many leasing pros make when giving a property tour? Jennifer Kennedy: I have heard leasing consultants [...]

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19 January 2010 ~ 12 Comments

Craigslist for Apartments, Part II

Last week’s discussion about marketing apartments on Craigslist stirred up a lot of questions. So many in fact, we wanted to follow it up with a Part II to address some of the great questions that came in. Here are some of the questions we were able to address in this second session, along with [...]

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11 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

The Numbers on Craigslist

“Craigslist is not for everyone. And it doesn’t work well in all markets. Not a ‘one size fits all’.” ~ Lisa Trosien For our first chat of 2010, we decided to jump right into the deep end. We recruited the help of Eva Panagiotopoulos and Eric Broughton from RentSentinel to help us understand how to [...]

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