Your Career Path – Take the Challenge

Career path in property management

Your career path cannot be taken lightly. It is not something you can leave up to chance and yet complacency can set in so quickly that we can’t see our way out of our current position. In my network there seems to be a plethora of posts about physical fitness and accepting personal physical challenges [...]

From New Hire to GREAT Hire (Infographic)

New Hire to Great Hire Infographic

Turning a new hire to a great hire is not a simple add water and stir process.  It takes a tiered approach and a comprehensive strategy in order to produce the optimum results.  Too often we see scenarios where someone is hired and left to fend for themselves in their new job position.  This typically [...]

Delinquent Rent-Don’t be Afraid to Collect

Collecting delinquent rent

A guest post by Jolene Sopalski 
Many of us are afraid of confrontation with our residents regarding the ever-sensitive subject of delinquent rent. I think many of us are afraid to push our residents to pay rent for fear our customer service score will fall below the company expectations. But is this thought process really helping [...]

Apartment Training and Communication-An Evolution

Cloud communication and training

Pause for a moment and reflect on the evolution of apartment training and communication. We can scroll through time and think of the use of the landline phone, pager, fax machine, cell phone, chat rooms and many other older tools. Now we live in a world of Skype, video conferencing and social media. What about [...]

If You Could Make a Difference in Multifamily-What would you do?

Be inspired to start a revolution

About a month ago I passed a gym on my way home from my gym, yes just like tax credit properties being built within 2 miles of each other,there are gyms built within the same distance. Anyways, I saw a banner on their building that said “Start a Revolution”. Now I know that was geared [...]

Continuing Education- An Asset to Your Career

Career Path in Apartment Industry

Does your company have a solid training and performance program? If they do you know what you should do? Hug them. Thank them. Support them and the program. Continuing education is a must and it has numerous purposes for your career. I am going to highlight 3 key ways on how continuing education is important [...]

Pain Points-Cope or Cure?

pain points in multifamily

The question posed in the title of this post is not one you can typically answer in a flash. The fact of the matter is that many times we are not even sure of what our pain points are. Even when we do know too often we put ourselves in the cope world [...]

Rental Insurance Programs-An Interview with Melissa Foley

multifamily apartment rental insurance

I had the opportunity to meet Melissa Foley last year at the Multifamilypros Brainstorming conference. My curiosity about everything multifamily led to some questions on my part which led to the following interview. For those who know Melissa well, her passion for her profession and for the professionals she attaches herself to is clearly [...]

Brand Monitoring- Is it Music to Your Ears?

be a conductor for your brand

Early in January I had the cool opportunity to teach a social media class for the IREM Northern Ohio Chapter. We covered plenty of topics but I think the one that struck the highest cord was the discussion over transparency and what do we do as business when we people talk about us.

How I was Properly Educated in Student Housing

University Village marketing

Early in January I had the unique privilege of travelling to Columbus Ohio to visit a dear friend of mine Kim Cory at University Village. I received a warm welcome from the whole staff and it provided a wonderful opportunity to be onsite in a student housing environment which I had never experienced before.

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