Document Management

Document Management

• Integrating technology systems yields cost and operational efficiencies.

  Integrating systems yields cost and operational efficiencies within product types and across geographic markets.

   

• NMHC, Kroll Partner on Tech Standards

  In a move to shore up program resources and turbo-charge standards development, the National Multi Housing Council has partnered with Kroll Factual Data to provide ongoing tech support and developmental assistance for the Multifamily Information and Transactions Standards (MITS) initiative.

   

• Idea Factory

  When times are tough, employees turn to their managers for advice, guidance, and fresh, new strategies. Here, five industry leaders share their latest breakthroughs in four categories. These ideas can help you improve communication, inspire by example, and hone in on new strategies across a variety...

   

• Under Warranty: Managing Product Warranties

  Forrest White, director of asset engineering for Alliance Residential Co., has a tight budget for the rehab projects he oversees at the Phoenix-based multifamily developer and third-party manager. A stickler for detail, he keeps a close eye on costs, reviewing line-by-line expenditures for the 10...

   

• Automation Nation

  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...

   

• Keep? Toss!

  Until recently, a set of filing cabinets in the corporate offices of Atlanta-based Post Properties took up five cubicles' worth of workspace. The cabinets held copies of invoices from vendors who deliver goods and services to Post's 62 apartment communities, consisting of 21,872 apartment units, in...