Category: News

Yardi Senior CRM

Sales, Marketing, Mobility

Yardi announced today the release of its new Yardi Senior CRM product, an advanced customer relationship management solution built into the Yardi Voyager® Senior Housing platform and integrated with all the Yardi Senior Living Suite™ products. “We matched the capabilities of a traditional CRM system with the workflows unique to senior living, and we did […]

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Raising Fees

How to break the news

Increasing fees without losing tenants is all a matter of presentation. When the economy slumped, many businesses explored ways to cut costs and stay afloat. Some property management companies offered fees as low as 4 percent in exchange for basic services. Owners jumped on these contracts, using the low costs to attract renters to their […]

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HUD Funding

Relief in Sight

In positive news for the public housing realm, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has received $49.3 billion in gross discretionary funding. It’s a $4 billion increase over FY 2014. The resources will be allocated to rental assistance vouchers, assistance for homeless and at-risk families, community improvement, and additional training for the Public […]

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All-in-One Platform

Pinnacle Adds Yardi Products

Yardi announced today that Pinnacle has expanded its Yardi solution footprint, adding advanced ancillary services from the integrated Yardi suite of products to optimize its real estate marketing, leasing, financial and operational efforts with a single software platform. With an unwavering focus on exceeding expectations, Pinnacle sought a full business solution that would not only […]

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Top 20 Cities

For Walkable Urbanism

By now, you’ve probably heard that pedestrian-friendly access is all the buzz among Millennials and hip, active empty nesters. Mortgages and car notes are falling out of favor as these two large portions of the population steer towards rentals in walkable cities such as Seattle, Portland, and New York. A new study shines light on […]

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Payment Processing

Collections Simplified

For managers, collections can be the most tedious part of the job. Skips, delinquencies, bounced checks, NSF alerts—there are few pleasantries surrounding the process. Fortunately, there are several tools in place to streamline collections, resulting in hands-free, automatic transactions. Say goodbye to the antiquated practice of depositing checks and say hello to the digital future […]

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Build Smarter

Or it's free

Building a house is nothing like ordering a pizza over the phone. But maybe it should be. With few exceptions, restaurants order ingredients and supplies in advance. They create a menu of offerings and then take orders over the phone based on the menu listings. Substitutions are made when the order is placed. Once the […]

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Stars to Watch

Commercial Property Executive

This week, Commercial Property Executive unveiled this year’s Stars to Watch, 17 up-and-coming individuals and teams from across the commercial real estate industry that are sure to make more waves as they climb the career ladder. Like others recognized by this decades-long program, these 40-and-unders are exhibiting insight, creativity and dogged determination in completing deals […]

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Attend YASC DC

Early bird rate ends soon

Each May, hundreds of professionals who use Yardi products as part of their daily work gather in Washington, D.C., for the company’s annual East Coast Advanced Solutions Conference – better known as YASC. The three day event, filled with opportunities to learn how to better utilize your company’s existing Yardi technology or enhance your software […]

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100 Resilient Cities

Achieve Global Recognition

Is your city resilient? The Rockefeller Foundation is in its second year of a global initiative to identify the world’s toughest cities – urban centers that have gone up against challenges of all sizes and refused to back down. In most cases, the impetus for resilience is ongoing. Athens, Greece, continues to recover from perilously […]

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Affordable in America

Supply lacking, demand rising

The present is the most challenging time in 50 years for renting affordable and adequate housing. Historically low homeownership rates, the rising number of renters fueled by demographic and cultural shifts, increasing rents, a dearth of supply, growing construction costs, high levels of unemployment and underemployment and stagnant incomes have all converged to a critical […]

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5 Healthiest Cities

Pedestrian Access is Key

The top five healthiest cities in the world have one thing in common: pedestrian-friendly access to work centers and residential neighborhoods. Master-planned communities that cater to walkers and cyclists are the norm in these cities; year after year, the healthiest cities continue to foster such features. These cities provide different models that can be replicated […]

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Cowboy Properties

Happy residents on the range

Salt Lake City-based Cowboy Properties, Inc. has been managing apartment and condominium communities for decades now, attributing its success to its resident-centric take on business. “It all starts with happy residents. As simplistic as this principle may seem, at Cowboy Properties we’ve made happy residents our highest priority,” the company boasts. Cowboy Properties defines resident’s […]

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Seaweed Siding?

Alt Insulation from the Earth

Building smarter requires low upfront costs, quick returns, and mechanisms to protect the longevity of our investments. A new wave of insulating materials can reportedly do all of that for our properties, so why haven’t they gained more buzz? Insulation that’s affordably priced, durable, fire resistant, and long-lasting is hard to come by, though not […]

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Pennrose Adds Products

From Yardi Multifamily Suite

“Our goal is to let our community managers concentrate on helping our company grow and increase revenue,” said Samuel Lopez, systems and implementation manager for multifamily property development company Pennrose Management. “The single solution stack approach that we adopted with Yardi Voyager® and the Yardi Multifamily Suite™ gives us the tools to do that.” He […]

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