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A compilation of images representing Yardi employee Jeanette Porter’s story, including images of herself with colleagues, pottery work and her hometown in Colorado

Employee spotlight: Jeanette Porter, serving people first

Meet Jeanette Porter, a sales manager for Yardi’s PHA team. With over two decades in the housing industry, Jeanette has helped countless agencies make the switch to technology and better serve their communities.

11 / 03 / 25

Mark Livanec honored with 2025 NAHMA Inspiration Award

Yardi Industry Principal Mark Livanec was honored with the 2025 NAHMA Inspiration Award at the Inspire Gala in Washington, D.C.

10 / 24 / 25

Employee spotlight: Ashley Romano, from client to team lead

Meet Ashley Romano, a senior team lead for client services. She and her team help senior living providers switch from paper to secure digital leases.

10 / 14 / 25

Employee spotlight: Paul Stassforth

Meet Paul Stassforth, a senior account executive on the Yardi senior living sales team. For over 14 years, he’s witnessed the team's growth while maintaining a close-knit culture.

05 / 19 / 25

Employee spotlight: Jesse McClintock

Jesse McClintock is a senior team leader for the Yardi consulting practices group. He manages the training program for Senior Living Suite clients. The Yardi motto drew him to join the company in 2015, and he continues to thrive on discovering opportunities for continuous improvement, innovation and making positive changes. A decade of dedication “I’m […]

04 / 14 / 25

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Clark LaForge

Clark LaForge

Perhaps there’s something innately special about people named Clark that lends naturally toward a life of duality, not to mention innate problem-solving aptitude. Clark Kent, as we all know, was actually Superman. Yardi Systems Application Service Provider Specialist Clark LaForge also has an impressive out-of-work alter ego. While he does most of his crime fighting […]

09 / 11 / 12

Jessica Fiur

Jessica Fiur

One of the first things that Jessica Fiur learned when she became online editor at Multi-Housing News was that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren’t your landlord’s charming Midwestern aunt and uncle. For the New York native, talented writer and pop culture aficionado, learning all about the world of real estate has been an eye-opening […]

09 / 06 / 12

Maria Stanton

Maria Stanton

Need a refresher on your best practices for property management? Refocus on these two simple tips from Maria Stanton, Director of Operations for Property Management at Miller Valentine: Get your team on the same page, and focus together on your customers. They are lessons she learned as a young leasing manager for a high rise […]

09 / 04 / 12

A Truly Tiny Apartment

Take an average sized apartment  and reduce it by 90 percent. Could you live there? With all the buzz in the news lately about micro-sized apartment living – particularly in markets like New York and San Francisco, where space is limited and renters will pay top dollar for even a closet-sized space to call home […]

08 / 22 / 12

Linda McFarland

Linda McFarland

Linda McFarland’s work at Yardi’s Amsterdam office has been a homecoming of sorts. The Netherlands native lived for eight years in the U.S., where she worked in property management and met her husband, before coming home to Holland nearly four years ago. A world traveler, Linda has an adventurous spirit that drew her to live […]

08 / 21 / 12

Yves Hajjar

Yves Hajjar

When he was 14, Yves Hajjar’s father gave him a gift that would influence the course of his life. It was a used personal computer, and along with the remote control airplanes he loved to fly as a kid, it soon consumed Yves’ free time. With the guidance of a computer engineer mentor in his […]

08 / 16 / 12

Mindy Sharp and Sgt. Thomas S. Sharp

Mindy Sharp

Mindy Sharp is the type of property manager who does it all. From lease-ups to balance sheets to carrying the maintenance pager, the Ohio-based property professional tackles all aspects of multifamily life at Ashton Glen, a picturesque townhome and apartment community in southern Dayton.  When she’s not marketing units or touring with prospects, she finds […]

08 / 13 / 12

Karin Nelson

Karin Nelson

How did a professional artist end up with a passion for affordable housing documentation? Karin Nelson’s work at Yardi‘s headquarters  in Santa Barbara, Calif. is vastly different from her past life as a wood sculptor. It’s also allowed her the chance to pursue a personal passion – an affinity for music that turned her into […]

08 / 07 / 12

Kim Mathews

Never underestimate the value of early work experience. Kim Mathews of Unified Property Group was first introduced to property management in high school at the age of 17, with a job working for a commercial firm. Not long after college graduation, she found her calling – property management accounting – and has stuck with it […]

08 / 02 / 12

Robert Podlesnik

There probably aren’t too many people out there who can say they met their significant other at a Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference. Robert and Deidre Podlesnik are among them. The Podlesniks happened to be in the same line for dinner at the Doubletree in Santa Barbara, Calif. back in 2001. He was a consultant, and […]

07 / 31 / 12

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Women’s Economic Ventures

The decision to start a small start-up business is a challenging one under any circumstances. With peer support and business training, success is far more likely for micro-entrepreneurs. Women and men in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Santa Maria, Calif., have gained such support with from Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV), a non-profit that supports economic empowerment […]

07 / 25 / 12

Carrie Traeger of PMI

Carrie A. Traeger

With dual expertise in Human Resources and Information Technology, Carrie A. Traeger of Property Management, Inc. (PMI), is well-equipped to make smart business analysis decisions. Pennsylvania-based PMI, specializing in commercial, residential, manufactured housing and homeowner association management, has 225 employees and is predominantly a third-party, fee-based management firm. PMI manages 5.4 million square feet of […]

07 / 24 / 12

Girls Inc - at Natural History

Girls Inc.

With a long track record of empowering programming and after school care for girls age five and up, Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara serves about 1000 young ladies each year in the Santa Barbara and Goleta areas. This dynamic program aims to make girls “strong, smart and bold” and inspire positive decisions that will […]

07 / 13 / 12

Dena Xifaras

Dena Xifaras started her professional life as an international management consultant, work that involved international travel to oversee decidedly for-profit projects. But she’s found her true calling back home in Massachusetts, where Xifaras has built a successful career in multiple roles for Boston-based Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), a national non-profit and Yardi affordable housing […]

07 / 10 / 12

Emily D’Urso

Anyone who has ever worked in onsite property management probably has a small arsenal of stories to share. But WinnResidential’s Emily D’Urso is the first mom we’ve met whose kids ask her to entertain them with tales of a property manager’s daily life. “I had so many stories about things I had to fix or […]

07 / 05 / 12