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Warranty of Habitability Early Notification Requirements
Warranty of Habitability Early Notification Requirements

The new notice requirements of Colorado’s Warranty of Habitability (effective August 2, 2019) require a landlord to type, long before making repairs. The requirements are specific and time sensitive. They will doom the reasonable, but inexperienced landlord to losing the dispute, regardless... Continue Reading

Postedby Drew Hamrick
Date posted10/22/2019


The Truth About Video Storytelling
The Truth About Video Storytelling

Your Ally to Increase Brand Awareness and Sell Your Product By Adriana Anderson The most important content marketing trend in 2019 is video. According to Business Insider, over one million minutes of video are shared per second and over 80% of content consumed on the Internet is video. Visual... Continue Reading

Date posted10/2/2019


Starry Connects Denver Housing Authority Residents with Affordable Internet
Starry Connects Denver Housing Authority Residents with Affordable Internet

Starry, Inc., a technology and internet service member of AAMD has entered into a partnership with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA). They now provide low-cost internet access for DHA’s affordable and public housing portfolio. More than 600 households at VIDA in West Denver and Connole... Continue Reading

Date posted10/1/2019


Six-Month Timeline for Marketing Your Event on Facebook
Six-Month Timeline for Marketing Your Event on Facebook

By Emily Klipp When it’s time to start promoting your next event on Facebook it can often be difficult to get timing and coordination down for flawless execution. According to Wish Pond, on average, there are 4.75 billion items shared by Facebook users each day, so it can be easy for your... Continue Reading

Date posted09/30/2019


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