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Breaking the Cycle

Domestic Violence Solutions

Many Americans are unaware of the prevalence of domestic violence in our communities. Domestic Violence Solutions (DVS) strives to educate the public while creating a pathway of hope for those who experience domestic abuse firsthand. DVS is Santa Barbara County’s only full-service domestic violence agency, committed to ending the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence through […]

Technology

Atlanta’s Geezer Squad

Senior Living Tech Assistance

In one Atlanta senior care facility, residents keep IT support in-house, thanks to the Geezer Squad. Tech hiccups can fell even the most tech savvy amongst us. For senior citizens, reboots and restarts are difficult to navigate. While sometimes a wayward grandchild can be corralled into providing IT support, not everyone has access to a […]

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Focus on Manchester

UK Think Tank

UK Think Tank: Insight from a recent real estate roundtable held in coordination with Property Week. Manchester is one of the UK’s most successful locations for large-scale private rented sector projects. But what are the drivers of success? Yardi brought together a think tank to discuss future developments in the sector. OUR PANEL OF EXPERTS […]

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Westbrook Mgmt

Runs on Yardi

Maintaining a family-oriented company culture does mean limiting corporate growth. Westbrook Management of Milwaukee maintains the balance with Yardi Voyager. Westbrook Management supervises about 2,000 units, including 450 units of affordable housing. Anthony Franda joined Westbrook Management four years ago to serve as the Controller and CFO of the small organization. He quickly embraced the […]

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Smart Renters

Want Smart Energy

Rising utility costs are a growing concern for renters. A recent report by Freddie Mac suggests that increasing utility costs concern renters more than rising rents—and renters are willing to pay higher rents for greener units. Forbes reports that the price of every energy commodity included in its index declined in the double digits since […]

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Next-Gen Employees

Millennial Employment

The senior living industry needs 1.2 million new employees by 2025 in order to meet demand, and that means finding new ways to connect with job-hunting millennials.

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Modular Data Centers

All the details

Modular data centers are one of the latest innovations in the IT world. In many cases, they are capable of increasing business productivity while reducing costs. We went looking for answers to some common questions about these data centers and what implications they have for the future. So, what is a modular data center? A […]

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Young at Heart

Senior Playgrounds

Forget sitting on a bench feeding pigeons; these days older adults are ditching the breadcrumbs for senior-friendly playgrounds.

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Insights on Innovation

Jim Young and Kevin Yardi

In 1992, the founder and CEO of Realcomm made a prediction. Jim Young wrote an article entitled “The Information Age and the Potential Effects on the Commercial Real Estate Market” forecasting a world in which reporters armed with “personal communicator” devices would relay information to editors, who pass it through an electronic distribution system to […]

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John Azar

MACC Venture Partners

For Yardi Matrix client John Azar, one of the most important aspects of any real estate transaction is rigorous due diligence. That means having the most comprehensive, up-to-date market information available to make a smart buying or selling decision. In 2016, Azar’s firm MACC Venture Partners began using Yardi Matrix for apartment market data, switching […]

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Student Housing

Cooling But Still Kicking

Student housing is still a hot sector for investors. Data research specialists at Axiometrics report that many properties experienced rent growth between 2 – 4 percent this year compared to fall 2015. But the writing on the wall suggests that investors may want to proceed with greater caution. The market already has a few cool […]

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Upgrade Achievement

Buzz Oates goes to Voyager 7S

The “Upgrade Like a Rock Star” series continues, offering insights for a smooth transition to Yardi Voyager® 7S, our latest property management platform. For the second installment, Kimberly Chambers, Senior Vice President, Accounting and Tax Services, at Buzz Oates real estate firm shares how she led her team through a two-month conversion from Voyager 6 […]

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Smart Homes, Dumb Security

Safeguarding the Internet of Things

On October 21, 2016, many of the world’s most popular websites were incapacitated by a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Users trying to blast off a tweet or listen to their favorite track on Spotify suddenly found themselves stranded on 404-error pages or stalled by perpetual “loading” messages on their browser. The […]

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Value Opportunity

For British Shopping Centres

Editor’s note: the following article originally appeared in the British real estate publication Property Week on Nov. 25. Martin Betts is Yardi’s Sales Director for UK and Ireland. Are some shopping centre landlords guilty of thinking their asset is simply a property? They get the tenants in, the leases agreed and the rents start rolling […]

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Meet Pixel

Google's First Phone

Google has finally launched its own smartphone, the Pixel, and aimed it directly at Apple. The search giant is keen on showing what a premium Android can do when the hardware is tailored to the software by those who actually make it. Following the Nexus line, Pixel is now 100 percent Google, and even though […]

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