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Homes of the Future

The homes of the future, they say, will be maintained, designed and built using the power of computers. Climate change, population growth, and geo-political shifts are the main factors in redesigning residential spaces. The U.N. says the world’s population could surpass 10 billion by 2100; this may make us think about sky homes and underwater […]

11 / 15 / 13

Gordon Morrell

Editor’s note: This guest post comes to us thanks to Patricia Marroquin, a Senior Writer for the UCSB Graduate Division. This post originally appeared on GradPost, the division’s online news magazine, which often features stories about exemplary alumni. Yardi COO Gordon Morrell certainly falls into that category, as do many of our Yardi team members. […]

11 / 14 / 13

Giving

Make-A-Wish

Make-A-Wish operates on a simple premise: every child deserves the hope, strength, and joy that comes with a dream fulfilled. The idea of Make-A-Wish spread like wildfire after the first wish was granted in 1980. Seven year-old Chris Greicius yearned to become a police officer. His battle with leukemia posed a threat to his dream. […]

11 / 12 / 13

Giving

Yardi Supports NMHC

For the third year, NMHC will be hosting a charity 3K walk/5K run during the Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, Florida on January 23rd. Launched in 2012, the signature “Walk For Our Troops” fundraiser has been a resounding success. During the first year, NMHC raised $61,000 in member donations for the Wounded Warrior Project, a […]

11 / 12 / 13

Giving

Alexis Vance

Alexis Vance wants to get inside the minds of the Millennials. So the vice president of marketing for Yardi client Alliance Residential Co. and her team completed an in-depth demographic analysis that revealed not just facts, but helpful nuance, about the country’s newest powerful renting and spending cohort. With a nationwide portfolio that touches 24 […]

11 / 11 / 13

Windows 8 Pro

According to NotebookReview.com, Windows 8 is receiving a higher approval rating than Apple and Android operating systems. Based upon consumer feedback, of roughly 10,500 comparisons between the iOS 7 and Windows 8, 63 percent favored Windows. Of nearly 7,300 comparisons to the Android OS, almost all favored Windows 8. If you haven’t caught up on […]

11 / 06 / 13

Technology

Jane Griffith

At the heart of most talented marketing professionals is a creative and artistic sensibility. It’s something that Tarragon Property Services’ Jane Griffith was able to express in spades with her recent work on best-selling author and leadership trainer Ken Blanchard’s “Whale Done My Wonderful One!” The original iteration of Blanchard’s “Whale Done!: The Power of […]

11 / 05 / 13

Mackenzie Green

Yardi client Housing York, Inc (HYI) is The Regional Municipality of York’s non-profit housing corporation and the seventh largest housing provider in Ontario. This year, HYI added Mackenzie Green to its portfolio of sustainable housing. Located in Richmond Hill, one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, Mackenzie Green has demonstrated a complete approach to […]

11 / 04 / 13

Affordable housing

Yardi in Dubai

Yardi property management software is found both close to home and around the globe. You might guess that it helps manage the rent and residents for an apartment building on your street – or even one that you live in. But did you know that Yardi’s flagship system, Yardi Voyager, is also the software of […]

11 / 01 / 13

Gone to the Dogs

Pet-friendly buildings are currently the cat’s meow (or the dog’s wagging tail, as it were)—and this trend doesn’t seem to be waning any time soon. And many property managers are going beyond being just pet friendly, and are offering amenities for the pets themselves. First came the dog runs. Then came the pet washing stations. […]

10 / 31 / 13

Group Focused

John Huskey has a different twist on seniors and affordable housing. He’s giving it a theme—and not just to attract residents but to drive resident interaction and engagement. His theory, at least in the case of senior residents, is that being an essential part of a group is vital, answering a desire to feel needed […]

10 / 31 / 13

Affordable housing

Apple’s October Keynote

Apple’s Oct. 22 product update event in San Francisco introduced a few new devices and detailed information about recent soft-launched products. Some techfiends focused on the iPad models, for others the Mac Pro held the stage. Many Apple fans the announcement of the Mavericks OS X with joy, while a few received it with suspicion. […]

10 / 30 / 13

Technology

Kyle Kazan

While biking down The Strand in Orange County, Kyle Kazan blends in with other fitness seekers and nature lovers. With his broad smile and down-to-earth demeanor, one couldn’t easily tell the years of graveyard shifts and pavement pounding that it took to build his company from the ground up. That company is now a Yardi […]

10 / 28 / 13

Walk-in Payments

Cash and money order payments are not ideal for property managers. Susceptible to fraud and inconvenient compared to electronic funds transfers or online payments, just about all property management firms will tell you that they don’t want rent remitted this way. But sometimes, that’s how residents want to pay. Now there’s an alternative. a new […]

10 / 28 / 13