Posts by: Leah Etling

BRIDGE Housing

Affordable - and transformative

BRIDGE Housing doesn’t just build affordable homes. The longtime affordable housing provider transforms communities. And over the next five years, San Francisco-based BRIDGE, which also has offices in Irvine and San Diego, plans a huge increase in lives touched and neighborhoods changed as it doubles in size. “BRIDGE has always been committed to production, and […]

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Habitat for Humanity

Building Homes and Futures

Sometime in 2014, 12 low-income Santa Barbara families will be able to move into newly constructed homes at Canon Perdido and Milpas streets, structures that they own and built in part with their own sweat equity. The latest project from Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County, the Canon Perdido Homes are the non-profit’s […]

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Chad Barron

NALS Apartment Homes

If you need a restaurant or bar recommendation for your next trip to Santa Barbara, Chad Barron is the guy you should ask. A district manager for the Santa Barbara-based Nevins Adams Lewbel Schell real estate investment firm, Barron is also immersed in the local food and beverage scene. He’s a volunteer organizer of the […]

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The Academy at DPHS

Changing students’ lives

A Dos Pueblos High School program that targets students at risk of dropping out of high school has proven its success, graduating 100 percent of the students who participated from 2009-2012. As a result, The Academy at Dos Pueblos High School is expanding, and the 32 students currently participating in the focused, supportive education experience […]

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Encina Meadows

The Towbes Group

They call the coastal California city of Goleta “the Goodland.” The opportunity to reside in apartments like The Towbes Group’s Encina Meadows are one reason why. With views of the beautiful Santa Ynez Mountains, Encina Meadows is a peaceful place to live. Residents told us that they love the nicely landscaped property, which includes mature […]

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Brenda Ruggles

Cominar

Brenda Ruggles believes that life is too short not to be happy. So she fills her days with challenging tasks, amazing adventures, people she loves, playing golf, non-profit work on behalf of animals, following the British Royal Family, and delicious cooking and baking projects – and those are just some of her interests. A resident […]

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James Beane

Yardi

James Beane is one of those rare individuals who can navigate the worlds of back end technical parlance and simple, user-friendly explanations of computing concepts with equal ease. For Yardi’s Manager of Cloud Services, communication is the most important aspect of IT. James’ job description includes answering questions from clients about how Yardi’s Application Service […]

Technology

A Paperless Reality

Roscoe Properties

It’s the time of year to make resolutions, and Steven Rea of Roscoe Properties tells us that the Austin, Texas property management firm has set some ambitious property management technology goals for 2013. “This is still very much an analog business,” observes Rea, who has been in the industry for ten years and worked his […]

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Jay Shobe

Yardi

For the last few years, Jay Shobe has had a technology to do list that would seem overwhelming by any standards. Yardi’s Vice President of Technology reeled it off for us, almost like it was a set list for a rock show. “Mobility – and that includes Apple, and Android. JQuery and HTML5, for multiple […]

Technician servicing an hot-water heater

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Maintenance Training

New NAAEI program

Maintenance technician positions have some of the highest turnover rates in the apartment industry. Augmenting the demand, there’s no established pipeline of trained, qualified candidates to step into apartment maintenance careers. These realities are motivators behind an exciting new grant-funded effort from the National Apartment Association’s Education Institute (NAAEI), which has established a pilot program […]

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Leslie Dabi

EAH Housing

Pathways to the world of property management are as unique as the people who travel them. For Leslie Dabi, an information systems manager for EAH Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer and management company, her road into the real estate realm began in college. While studying French and international relations at UC Davis, Leslie took […]

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Sean Spinks

Yardi

Sean Spinks has worked in a diverse range of industries – including the restaurant and catering business, as a college-level instructor for ministry students, and even cleaning carpets. All of these job experiences have given him a unique perspective on customer service, an area in which he excels. Sean, an employee in Yardi’s Raleigh, N.C. […]

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Multifamily Demand Forecast

Freddie Mac says things look good

The pace of continued economic recovery will determine whether the number of U.S. renter households will grow by 1 million or closer to 1.7 million between now and 2015. That’s the consensus of a recently released report from Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Research department, which also notes that there has been major growth in the single […]

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Pam Alexander

Yardi

Whether she’s hiking an icy trail in Yosemite, troubleshooting an accounting software issue for a Yardi client, or hanging out with rock stars, Pam Alexander is equally at home. Her unflappable and understanding nature shines through in any situation. An eight-year Yardi employee who currently serves in multiple roles as a client services manager, Pam […]

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Dawn Bolin

The Ezralow Company

Dawn Bolin isn’t someone to shy away from a challenge. After 20 years as an accounting manager for The Ezralow Company of Calabasas, Calif., she asked her employer to entrust her with a major new challenge – overseeing the transition of the multi-vertical property management firm from Yardi Enterprise to Yardi Voyager. As an accountant, […]

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