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Utilize Social Media To Enhance Your Community's Brand
Utilize Social Media To Enhance Your Community's Brand

With 2019 coming to an end, we’re taking a look into one of the most influential marketing platforms of the last decade – Social Media. According to the Pew Research Center1, 69 percent of all U.S. adults now use at least one social media platform and this number growing... Continue Reading

Postedby Mara Freese
Date posted09/25/2019


Automation is the Key to Improving Employee Efficiency and Increasing Visits and Leases
Automation is the Key to Improving Employee Efficiency and Increasing Visits and Leases

If you’re a mid-sized property manager or apartment owner, you probably employ more than a 100 leasing agents. Combined, they probably communicate with more than a thousand prospects a day. According to our internal data, 42 percent of those communications are about scheduling tours or... Continue Reading

Date posted09/10/2019


Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro
Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro

Last summer I went to Africa with my seventeen-year-old son. We did some humanitarian work for a couple weeks in Ghana and then flew to Tanzania and hiked Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the Seven Summits. The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.... Continue Reading

Postedby Troy Porras
Date posted08/29/2019


Limiting New Construction Will Reverse Progress in Affordable Housing
Limiting New Construction Will Reverse Progress in Affordable Housing

The record-breaking amount of new apartment construction in the last several years has yielded exactly what economists would predict: rent growth has fallen from double digit highs earlier this decade to below the rate of inflation over the last 12 months. You read that right: average rents are... Continue Reading

Postedby Teo Nicolais
Date posted08/27/2019


New Laws Require Landlords to Analyze Tenant Communication Systems to Meet Legal Requirements
New Laws Require Landlords to Analyze Tenant Communication Systems to Meet Legal Requirements

The Colorado General Assembly passed multiple landlord tenant bills this session. Two of these Bills (The Warranty of Habitability or “WHB” and the Bed Bug Bill or “BBB”) create significant ongoing communication requirements for landlords. The WHB is effective August 2,... Continue Reading

Postedby Mark Tschetter
Date posted08/21/2019


Saddle Up With 2019-2020 AAMD President Scott Kirkwood
Saddle Up With 2019-2020 AAMD President Scott Kirkwood

FAST FACTS WITH SCOTT Born & Raised: Front range of Colorado with ties to Chicago Education Background: Inner city kid graduating from East High School attended both University of Northern Colorado and the University of Colorado in Boulder Family / Pets: Two cats (Dreamsicle and Mr. Tuffy),... Continue Reading

Postedby Christopher Dean
Date posted08/14/2019


Denver's New "Source of Income" Ordinance
Denver's New "Source of Income" Ordinance

As of January 1, 2019, if a Section 8 voucher holder is a good candidate, most Denver Landlords will be required to accept the voucher and cooperate with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) rules, HUD regulations, inspections and policies. Many Landlords do not accept Section 8 voucher holders, as... Continue Reading

Postedby Deborah Wilson
Date posted01/14/2019


Dealing with Chronic Complaining Tenants Requires You To Be Prepared
Dealing with Chronic Complaining Tenants Requires You To Be Prepared

Overall, most tenants are good. They carry out the prime directive by paying their rent on time, and don't bother other folks, including your on-site team. However, if you have been in the rental industry long enough, you almost certainly and unfortunately have encountered the chronic complaining... Continue Reading

Postedby Mark Tschetter
Date posted05/7/2018


10 Ways to Keep Your Community's Residents, in this fast growing Denver market
10 Ways to Keep Your Community's Residents, in this fast growing Denver market

“The grass is greener over there” - We have all thought it once or twice; maybe it was about someone we were dating, our jobs, our cars or maybe we have done it with our own apartments. This can make life difficult for those of us responsible for getting current residents to... Continue Reading

Postedby Matthew Easton
Date posted04/30/2018


Find a Good Mentor and Work Your Heart Out for Them
Find a Good Mentor and Work Your Heart Out for Them

A parable is told of Arkad of Babylon. When his son reached adulthood and prepared to journey out into the world, Arkad gave the young man a bag of gold and a clay tablet containing the lessons Arkad had gained in his many years on earth. The son went forth and after ten years of toil,... Continue Reading

Postedby Teo Nicolais
Date posted01/12/2018


Three Leadership Myths Could Be Limiting Your Success
Three Leadership Myths Could Be Limiting Your Success

By Mark Montini Leadership is arguably the most valuable asset an organization can possess but yet, for some reason, it almost always seems to be in short supply. Countless organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, fall frustratingly short of achieving their full potential due to a... Continue Reading

Date posted01/5/2018


Your Leadership Style Matters
Your Leadership Style Matters

By Terri Norvell The challenge of running an organization or property full of independent, smart, willing- to-learn people can be a bit overwhelming. After all, many of us jumped into a leadership role without having the benefit of ‘leading’ or ‘managing’ people. We may... Continue Reading

Date posted12/15/2017