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HUD Updates

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently received a $1.7 billion dollar Continuum of Care grant. Funds will provide assessment programs, street outreach, housing, job training, mental and physical health care, substance abuse counseling, and child care for formerly homeless persons. This year’s allotment reflects a 5% cut in funding, continuing a trend […]

01 / 06 / 14

Cash from the Crowd

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules that would permit small companies to seek funding from the general public. Crowdfunding has grown in popularity among artists and inventors. Companies that create home security gadgets, tiny appliances for micro-apartments and sustainable furniture have all received public funding via platforms like Kickstarter. If the proposed rules […]

01 / 03 / 14

Trends to Watch

2013 was quite a year in the world of real estate. Whether your firm was moving forward with new technologies, revamping business practices to be more efficient, or raising rents and acquiring new properties, there was much forward momentum and positive change. Of course, it was only the first step for some of these long […]

01 / 02 / 14

Smarter Snacks

Food: celebration, unity, comfort. The cultural significance of a meal, or even a snack, goes beyond our bodies’ need for nourishment. Unfortunately, that’s the problem. Deciding what foods to stock in the break room or how to create menus for a conference can be a daunting task. Organizers must decide between foods that nourish the […]

12 / 31 / 13

Small Gift, Big Impact

Colleen Gray admits that when a frigid ice storm struck her hometown of Toronto, Ontario a few days before Christmas, she wasn’t prepared. “I had no flashlight, candles, tasty emergency food,” said the Business Applications Leader for Real Estate Management Services, a Yardi client. Her apartment lost power on Dec. 21 around 10 p.m. Nor […]

12 / 30 / 13

Seeing Trouble

One of the hottest tech topics of the year in the technology world has been wearable gizmos like smart watches and Google Glass. As hot as these inventions are, they have privacy implications that must not be overlooked. By April 2014, the initial 10,000 people that are currently testing the prototype will multiply. With the […]

12 / 30 / 13

Gone in 6 Seconds

When it comes to commercial advertisements, traditional rules have fallen by the wayside. Millennials have nontraditional tastes. We recycle our snail mail without reading it. We use TV commercial breaks to tweet about the show, not to watch ads. What banners? We can ignore a pop-up like you never even made it. Millennials respond best […]

12 / 27 / 13

Yardi Year in Review: Part Two

Welcome back. Over the course of 2013, we featured many exciting milestones for Yardi here on The Balance Sheet. It was a year of strong growth for many of our clients, and Yardi’s products evolved to help support their goals and plans in the world of real estate. Here’s a look at some of the […]

12 / 27 / 13

Clydesdales

Yardi Year in Review: Part One

Over the course of 2013, we featured many exciting milestones for Yardi here on The Balance Sheet. It was a year of strong growth for many of our clients, and Yardi’s products evolved to help support their goals and plans in the world of real estate. Here’s a look at some of the stories we […]

12 / 26 / 13

Learning to Like LEDs

Multifamily professionals are torn when it comes to LEDs. While many love the idea of a bulb that lowers utility bills without sacrificing brightness, they aren’t in love with the high upfront costs. It can also be hard to tell when it’s worthwhile to invest in LEDs when halogen, fluorescent, CFL, or even incandescent bulbs […]

12 / 26 / 13

Apple Pages 5.0

I started to write this post on Apple Pages 5.0 by creating a Microsoft Word 2010 Document and naming it Apple Pages 5.0. But something didn’t seem right. Outside the office I’m on a MacBook, and Pages is what I use to create personal documents. I am completely satisfied with its airy design, the way […]

12 / 23 / 13

Flying with Phones

Which do you value most during a flight: peace and quiet or the ability to get more work done? Business travelers across the globe may have to ask (and answer) that question when booking their next flight. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed to lift its ban on in-flight cellular communications. This means chatting it […]

12 / 20 / 13

Big Data

If you knew how visitors interact with your website, what their ages and interests are, could you serve them better? Could you use information about your clients and potential clients to create more effective marketing? That’s what the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) aims to find out. At the 2013 NAR Convention and Expo in […]

12 / 20 / 13

Data Driven

When Ron Brock began forming the business idea that would ultimately become Pierce-Eislen, a data research firm focused on the commercial apartment industry, online databases and the Internet were still in the incubation stages. Fast forward a couple of decades, and Brock’s company, Pierce-Eislen (acquired in 2013 by Yardi Systems) is the leading provider of […]

12 / 19 / 13

500 Strong

Over the past five months, more than 500 Yardi Voyager® clients—with the number growing daily—have adopted the browser-agnostic, mobile-enabled Yardi Voyager® 7S, the latest, most advanced version of Yardi’s core software-as-a-service (SaaS) real estate management platform. Yardi Voyager 7S is compatible with all major Internet browsers, offering real estate investment and property management clients access […]

12 / 18 / 13