Posts by: Leah Etling

Steven Maher

Kinzie Real Estate Group

Condo conversions can be risky business. That’s the lesson learned in Chicago over the last four years, where many efforts to transition apartment properties into for-sale condominium units flopped – and in some cases even reverted back to apartments once again. Chicago, the nation’s third largest condo market, saw median sales prices plummet when the […]

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Mukang Cho

In-Rel Properties

Being tied to one city has never been In-Rel Properties’ CEO Mukang Cho’s M.O. Born in South Korea, he lived in eight countries while growing up due to the career of his father, Key-sung Cho, a diplomat who served as the South Korean ambassador to Guatemala, Peru and Argentina. The family’s immersion into Latin America […]

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Signing Voyager

Hughes trains in ASL

Yardi Voyager is used by companies and agencies around the world. But a training session for Yardi’s flagship product had probably never been delivered in American Sign Language (ASL) until very recently. Thanks to the initiative of Yardi Public Housing Technical Account Manager Bill Hughes, a staff member of the Ventura County Housing Authority, who […]

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Amenity Arms Race

What renters want

Los Angeles—Gen Y likes rooftop pools, multimedia-equipped fitness suites, concierge package service and the ability to order housekeeping for their apartment. They have dogs, get lots of UPS deliveries but almost no mail, like walking places (but also need to charge their electric vehicles), and want the lobby of their apartment community it look like […]

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Food Truck Fun

Lure prospects with good eats

Looking for a new way to bring prospective residents to your property? One innovative approach, tried out successfully at numerous communities, involves everybody’s favorite meals on wheels: Food trucks! At a largely student-populated apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida, bringing together 12 food trucks for an afternoon this April resulted in resident fun, great local media […]

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Alexis Vance

Alliance Residential

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 […]

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Jane Griffith

Tarragon/Investco

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 […]

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Yardi in Dubai

New Abu Dhabi mall uses Voyager

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 […]

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Walk-in Payments

A better way to accept cash

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 […]

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A Home Run

YASC contest winner Steve Schutz

Steve Schutz would have come to the Fall 2013 Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference (YASC) no matter what – as a 12-year user of Yardi products, he recognizes the value of the event to educate and inform him about developments and solutions for the software he uses daily. “I do everything from training, document writing, help […]

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New York State MTA

Trains, buses, roads and real estate

Yonah Bergstrom summarizes the real estate experience of New York State’s Metropolitan Transit Authority nicely: “It’s a whole different world when you are leasing space underground,” he told us at last week’s Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference. The MTA is not just one of the nation’s largest public transportation providers, overseeing the operations of the New […]

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Jeff Elowe

Laramar Group

Last month, The Laramar Group announced a major acquisition in Southern California. With the purchase of Los Angeles-based JB Partners Group, the company assumed management of 7,000 new third-party owned units, adding 77 properties and 170 employees with the merger. It’s the latest significant uptick in what has been a steady several years of national […]

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Global Growth

Yardi Dubai

A year ago, Yardi announced the opening of a new office in Dubai, UAE, offering the global real estate technology provider the chance to better serve clients and expand our presence in the region. In just 12 months, major client growth and significant expansion of the staffing resources in the Dubai office have taken place. […]

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Fall YASC News

Conference highlights from Anaheim

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Kicking off Fall YASC 2013 at the Anaheim Hilton, Yardi Systems founder and CEO Anant Yardi delivered an insightful, engaging and humorous address to 1,450 Yardi clients about the future of technology and the habits of the multifamily industry’s newest renters – the Millennials. Encapsulating the larger trends in the technology marketplace […]

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10 YASC To Dos

Lots to learn and see

In the Fall YASC 2013 opening session, Yardi’s Bryant Shoemaker urged every attendee of Yardi’s largest ever user conference to meet at least 10 other Yardi clients during the event. “You’re going to go to the classes and learn things but you can learn more from all the other people here,” said Shoemaker. After a […]

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