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If a prospective resident, investor, owner, or customer asked AI about your company or apartment community today, would you be confident in the answer they receive? Because that answer may influence a leasing decision, a vendor evaluation, an investment opportunity, or stop the conversation before your team ever has the chance to tell your story. For years, people started their research with Google, review sites, social media, industry publications, and peer recommendations. Today, a new first advisor has joined the process: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧, 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲, 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶, 𝗼𝗿... Read more
The rise in tenant application fraud is one of the strongest reasons property owners should consider professional property management. As fraud becomes more...
Tamiaka Bryant has rebuilt her life from scratch before. She doesn’t want to have to do it again. Originally from North Carolina, Bryant saw her hometown of New Bern...
Renting an apartment is a strange transaction. It is the biggest bill most renter households pay each month. Yet the deal itself gets struck in a hurry: a couple of...
Chicago may top Orkin’s 2026 Bed Bug Cities List, but multifamily operators shouldn’t view bed bugs as a problem confined to a handful of markets. The rankings span...
Multifamily insurance costs have jumped so sharply since 2019 that they are eroding net operating income, weakening valuations, and threatening the long‑term viability of affordable housing, according to new research from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Brookings Institution. For multifamily investors, keeping deals pencil out increasingly hinges on how well they manage this line item. Insurance Costs Become A Drag On Returns Multifamily owners and operators have been wrestling with steep insurance hikes since the pandemic and the pressure is not easing. In a recent working paper, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies finds that property... Read more
A new Yardi Matrix analysis documents the impact of debt collection success on key aspects of affordable housing providers’ operating performance as local policies...
Property managers wear enough hats already. The problem is that many teams still spend too much time on marketing tasks that are repetitive, specialized, or better...
According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 71% of American households own at least one pet. Nearly half of U.S. households own a dog, around 35% own a cat, and...
A new divide is emerging in the multifamily industry between operators that are rebuilding their operating models around artificial intelligence (AI) and those just...
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