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  Multifamily Housing Classifications There are several types of multifamily housing. Most apartment properties are put into one of four property classifications. Each “classification” of properties has a letter grade. These grades are used to help investors, property management professionals and real estate brokers speak a common language so they can understand a property’s characteristics […]

By understanding the thought processes of today’s renters, you have the tools to cultivate a tactical apartment marketing plan to increase occupancy and resident retention. This guide will provide you with insight on how renters are searching for apartments, their interaction preferences, and what they would like to receive from their communities moving forward. FRMS […]

Resident Retention Plan By Tami Siewruk Step One: Assess Your Current Resident Retention Efforts Before going ahead in earnest, you’ll have to take a good, hard look at your current efforts. Even if you have plenty of great ideas in mind, you’ll have to know where to target them. We will email you  The Multifamilypro […]

By Tami Siewruk Think about what residents in your apartment community really, really want. Although their needs are numerous and complex, most of them ultimately center on personal issues like success, dignity,respect, individual achievement, and knowledge. If you can build your resident service enhancements around these seven key issues, you’ll have a better chance of […]

Proactive vs. Reactive Efforts By Tami Siewruk The apartment management staff at a retirement home became puzzled when one of the residents began talking about the fast cash for less credit borrowers topic, while gargling with Listerine.They asked her why but all she would say was that “something had happened at the post-office.” This is […]

Apartment meme  What is a meme you ask?   A Meme (pron.: /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, […]

By Tami Siewruk Multifamilypro Do you have a complete integrated marketing strategy? An extremely powerful under-utilized leasing and marketing tool that we have in the apartment industry is the resident testimonial. Yet many times we use the excuse of being “too busy” or “I am not comfortable asking” to not actively request testimonials from our […]