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Listen to PropertyBridge vice president Jason Gardner talk tech strategies for 2009, and you'd swear he was an apartment owner. “This is a critical time—whether you're a REIT or private company, everyone is feeling the pain,” Gardner says. “You need to ask your vendors specifically: How can your...
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Today's student housing tech offerings give clues as to what coeds will demand at their first apartments.
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A few years ago, multifamily executives wondered how long it would take for online leasing to catch on. Now that it has, some apartment firms are ready to take the next step: eliminating the paper lease. That would mean that even when customers come into the leasing office, they wouldn't have to...
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As apartment executives know all too well, the technology landscape is changing rapidly—and constantly. Cable firms are rushing to deliver phone service, phone companies are starting to provide video programming, and American consumers are being bombarded with offers for new content and services...
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One of the newest technologies in the apartment business today is also one of the simplest, at least by name. But using Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, to boost your bottom line is still a complex equation when it comes to multifamily management. One thing's for sure: RSS has hit the 'Net...
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Now that Starbucks has almost single-handedly put hot spots—those areas where anyone with a mobile device can gain wireless access to the Internet—firmly into the American lexicon, property management companies are beginning to explore just how to make a similar model work in their apartment...