08 February 2010 ~ Comments

Blogging for Apartment Communities

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have been getting a lot of buzz recently, but some people would argue that apartment operators would get more bang for their buck focusing on a blog for their property. We decided to pose the question to the #AptChat group.
This was one of our most active chats [...]

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19 December 2009 ~ Comments

2010 Resolutions for Multifamily

Yesterday was our last #AptChat of the year, so we appropriately looked forward to 2010 and discussed our top resolutions for property managers. (Thanks to the Houston Apartment Association for the topic suggestion!) Here’s our recap of the questions and highlights from the conversation:
What’s your resolution, how can you put it into place, and how’s [...]

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03 October 2009 ~ Comments

Resident Retention with SatisFacts

We’d like to thank Doug Miller and Jen Piccotti from SatisFacts for leading a great conversation about resident retention on this week’s chat. They provided lots of hard-hitting stats about the true costs of resident turnover.
Here are the questions that were discussed:

Why does controlling resident turnover matter?
What matters most to residents when considering renewal?
How does [...]

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