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From performing routine maintenance to keep apartment buildings clean to emergency repairs for leaking pipes, maintenance is a major part of property management. In fact, multifamily data research suggests that maintenance is one of the largest costs…

Does your apartment community have a social media presence? If the answer is “no,” multifamily data shows you may be holding your property back from its potential. Many property owners and landlords don’t realize how important social media is. Howeve…

If your multifamily property uses an instant tenant screening service, there’s no guarantee the results will be perfect. In fact, far from it. When you use a service like this, corners often get cut. As such, you could encounter a false positive. Whi…

Have you ever wondered about the most effective solutions to manage your homeowners’ association (HOA)? Finding the most effective opportunities to streamline your HOA management is often difficult, but this shouldn’t have to hold you back. Luckily, …

Never before has there been so much information available about PropTech. There are quite literally thousands of real estate technology providers to consider, and with them all looking the same and using the same PropTech terminology, it’s easy for them to blur into one. As a result, it has never been more difficult to make … Continued

Property management fraud is a threat that seemingly never ends. Just as you’re confident you’ve secured a wonderful new tenant, you discover that they applied under a fake name and are now subletting your apartment. No matter how smart you are with …

In recent years, build-to-rent real estate has become a popular strategy to help close a gap for rental housing in the US. As the demand for housing outpaces supply, many homebuilders and real estate developers have invested more capital in build-to-…

Property managers in multifamily communities wear many hats, and it’s impossible to be an expert in all of them. In the leasing office, you have to be a marketer, a lawyer, detective, and credit agency all at once – but everyone who’…