Property managers wear multiple professional hats each day. You hire staff, attract new tenants, manage projects, settle tenant disputes, and juggle a variety of other tasks to keep your properties running efficiently. Data suggests that 45% of…
To move ahead in the student housing business, well-rounded operational experience is important. But it isn’t the only thing that will define success.For student housing professionals, such as Heather R. Sizemore, CAPS, Vice President, University…
Behr Paint Company recently donated $100,000 to six Orange County California non-profits. Behr is based in Santa Ana, CA.Recipients included:Goodwill Orange CountyThe LGBT Center OCMorehouse School of Medicine (based in Atlanta, Ga., where The Home…
Over the course of one week, NAA staff donated enough items to fill six laundry baskets full of necessities for local families in need and dropped the items off at Doorways for Women and Families, which is an organization that creates pathways out…
In our third installment of “Profiles in Success,” a series where NAA talks to successful apartment professionals to learn how they got where they are, who inspired them and what their biggest challenge was, we visit a company president from Alabama…
Onsite staff are not equipped to police or determine the validity of residents’ immigration paperwork.Immigration is a subject that lately has generated significant debate at the federal level. As efforts to regulate immigration in Congress continue…
If apartment marketers are looking for improvement in 2019, artificial intelligence and email re-marketing are two good places to start. Find out what the others are.It has been a while since I ran a marketing team for an apartment operator. However…
As we enter another year, people are on the mind of many apartment executives. Find out how they want to engage with associates and residents.As the calendar turns to 2019, the job market is tight. Unemployment hovers at just below 4 percent…
If managers follow these four tips, owners say they would improve their NOI. And, yes, one of the pieces of advice revolves around money.In November, we looked at the owner-manager relationship from the manager’s perspective. We found that managers…
A ruddy face frames keen blue eyes. Behind the stacks of legal briefs, illuminated by one soft lamp, one could be forgiven for envisioning a medieval duke standing on his battlements. Though John McDermott is fortified in Arlington, as he leans back…