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30 Tweet Ideas: Part 2 of the Twitter Series for Property Managers

Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by Charity Hisle.

Twitter is one of the most difficult social networks to explain and to learn for property management professionals. Often I hear questions like, “What do we say?” or “Who are we talking to?” Let’s try to clear up the confusion today!

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What is Twitter? Part 1 of the Twitter Series for Property Managers

Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by Charity Hisle.

Believe it or not, the world has not abandoned Twitter, in fact, just the opposite. While Facebook and Google Plus use are declining, Twitter is gaining users globally. The average user sends a half a Tweet per day and the site has reached 360 million registered users.

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Rental Income with a “Home Away from Home” Approach

Posted on 12. Aug, 2011 by Marc Courtenay.

There are many ways to help owners expand their base of income and to separate yourself as a property manager that’s going above and beyond to help your clients succeed.

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Eliminate Property Management Time Wasters

Posted on 09. Aug, 2011 by Mary Girsch-Bock.

Streamlining office operations can go a long way toward instituting and utilizing proper time management techniques. Below are a few time-consuming procedures that you may want to consider eliminating in order to create more free time tomorrow. While you’re at it, take a look around your office – most of us all have our own time wasters that need to be eliminated.

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Case Investigation: Maximizing Commercial Collection

Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by KTS-Law.

California has a statutory scheme that provides mechanisms for judgment creditors to recover money involuntarily from judgment debtors. However, a creditor cannot collect if the judgment debtor’s assets cannot be located.

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Zillow Shares Sell Like Hot Cakes

Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by Aimee Miller.

Even as the housing sector continues to be unpredictable it was exciting to see the Zillow IPO on Wednesday July 20th. Zillow priced its IPO at $20 per share and the stock quickly doubled right out of the gates.

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iPad – Beyond the Cool Factor

Posted on 19. Jul, 2011 by Heather Blume.

If you’re trying to justify the purchase of tablets to your company, you’re going to have to have more than a strong, “I want it because it’s neat,” factor. With all the programs that have been coming out with great tablet integrations and apps, on site teams are salivating over these little toys. In fact, over the last 18 months I can’t even count how many people have told me how great leasing with a tablet can be. It’s cool.

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How to Get Your Residents To Pay Rent Online

Posted on 14. Jun, 2011 by Mary Girsch-Bock.

While many property management companies have been offering an online rental payment option to residents for years, there are just as many who currently do not. And the management companies that currently do offer this option have found that only a fraction of their residents actually utilize an online rental payment option.

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Track Your Energy Costs in Real Time

Posted on 13. May, 2011 by Aimee Miller.

Anyone who lives in a house or apartment has to pay energy bills. Not only can these bills be expensive, you only find out what you owe after the month is over. Now homeowners and renters can use home-electricity monitors to watch energy use and see what it costs in real time. The device is hooked up to the breaker box and from there it wirelessly transmits the data to a display unit.

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Choosing the Right Property Management Accounting Software

Posted on 12. May, 2011 by Mary Girsch-Bock.

Has your current property management software program been giving you more problems than solutions? If so, you may be ready to look for new property management accounting software. If you’re not sure what you need, take these suggestions under consideration.

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Property Manager on Trial for Carbon Monoxide Deaths

Posted on 05. May, 2011 by Nora Betz.

On Monday, the McDaniel family was found dead in their rental home in Toledo, Ohio after being poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes during the night as they ran a space heater powered by a portable generator in the kitchen.

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SEO Continued: What is Digital Asset Optimization?

Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by Charity Hisle.

The natural evolution of Search Engine Optimization is Digital Asset Optimization (DAO), the optimization of all of your online content. This includes images, audio files, video’s and even PDFs. Anything you place online has a keyword title, meta tag and a clear description to influence search engines.

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Why Should I Rent from You?

Posted on 10. Mar, 2011 by Lisa Trosien.

Start using testimonials in your leasing office, in your models, on your website and even on your collateral materials. Have a variety of demographic groups in your testimonials. The 65 year old empty nester couple might not relate well to the 22 year old roommates fresh out of college in their first jobs, you know?

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for 2011

Posted on 28. Dec, 2010 by Mary Girsch-Bock.

No matter how cynical you are the New Year always represents an opportunity to begin anew. Here is a list of five resolutions that all property managers should make that will bring rewards throughout 2011.

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Using Excel Instead of Property Management Software Is Risky Business

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Mary Girsch-Bock.

It’s no secret that there are a lot of Excel users in the property management community. An outstanding spreadsheet program, Excel frequently plugs in the gaps commonly found in accounting programs. But there’s a group of property managers that may find themselves relying on Excel a little too much.

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Your Paperless Office: Five Great Reasons to Move Payments Online

Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by Jim Semick.

A single check seems small enough. But added up, the checks your property management company deposits or prints can ultimately bury your staff under a mound of paper. If you are on the way to a paperless office but haven’t yet tackled electronic payments for receivables and payables, you are paying more than you need to run your operation.

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How Property Managers Use Social Networking to Grow Their Business (Apr. 22 Webinar Recap)

Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Aimee Miller.

In this April 22nd webinar video recording, Mike Whaling, social media expert for the residential property management industry, talks about how property managers can use social media (think Facebook, Twitter, blogging) to connect with current and prospective residents as well as prospective owners.

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Rent Week Pain Relief: What’s the Best Online Payment Solution?

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Jim Semick.

It’s rent week again, and all hands are on deck. If you’re like many other property management firms, you have an unwritten rule: no vacation during rent week. You realize that rent checks cost your company time and money with unnecessary handling, data entry, errors, staff frustration and other inefficiencies. Surely there has to be a better way.

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Seven Reasons Why Rent Checks Cost More than You Think

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Jim Semick.

More property management firms are discovering that they can save a significant amount of time and reduce headaches during rent week by moving their resident rent payments online using ACH (automated clearinghouse) and other electronic methods.

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Ditch That Rent Check: A World of Online Payment Options

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Jim Semick.

Sure, the lowly check will be with us for a while. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t help send checks the way of the dodo bird. According to a Federal Reserve System study, check usage is in steep decline, and checks now represent only 30 percent of all non-cash payments. Electronic payments are now the clear winner with consumers.

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SoftwareAdvice.com Survey: How Are Property Managers Using Technology?

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by Aimee Miller.

SoftwareAdvice.com recently sent out a survey to learn more about how property managers are using technology in their business.
A few interesting highlights:
1. Almost half of the companies surveyed grew their business last year – either growing by increased revenue or more units. This is great to hear in a struggling market! But how did they [...]

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Preparing Your 2010 Property Management Marketing Plan (Dec. 15 Webinar Recap)

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Aimee Miller.

On December 15 AppFolio hosted a joint webinar with Multifamily Insiders and brought in a special guest speaker, Lisa Trosien. In the video below, Lisa shares her perspective on marketing trends, social media, tips and creative ideas from around the country to help you create a great plan for marketing your vacancies and property management [...]

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Keeping up with the Jones’s: Compare Away!

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Aimee Miller.

Here are three sites I’ve found that help property managers compare things that are worth comparing:

Average rental rates
This is a helpful tool from RentBits (link). It lets you compare rents for apartments and houses in many geographic areas. It has an easy interface and you can see both the average and median prices over the [...]

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Moving Marketing Online: Interview with Nick Scarabosio, Jackson Group Property Management

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Aimee Miller.

I recently had the chance to speak with Nick Scarabosio from Jackson Group Property Management in San Francisco, CA. San Francisco is a competitive market and you have to be thinking of creative ways to reach your audience…and Nick is pretty creative!
Aimee: How has your property management marketing changed over the past couple of years [...]

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