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Student Housing Apartment Ratings
6/23/2008

RateMyApartments.com is a website just for students.  Similar to www.ApartmentRatings.com, this website allows students to rate apartments based on quality, price, location, social life, landlord, parking and overall satisfaction.

Large Percentage of Residents Voting for Smoke-Free Apartments
6/23/2008

A recent survey conducted by Apartments.com indicates a trend toward residents' preference for a smoke-free environment  Read the whole Multi-housing News article at http://www.multihousingnews.com/multihousing/content_display/industry-news/e3i5a3f46d9d85bdabb4a0c715fe4149ef6

3/21/2008
I made an interesting discovery this week while assisting two property management companies seeking to hire new employees.  Free job listing opportunities are rare; and I have an even greater appreciation for Leasing Café's New Grind FREE listing service at http://www.leasingcafe.com/new-grind.asp

Many apartment associations charge fees to post job listings for their members.  

3/9/2008

I rec'd an email from a LeasingCafe.com fan that asked the following:

 Title: just an idea
Author: Ryan Dick
Email: ryan@gotcha-media.com
Phone: 407-599-6800
Content: Hi Becca, looks like this blog is shaping up nicely. Keep up the great work. How about a post on lead sources? Which ones are the most effective? Which source give the best average cost-per-lead? Any idea on where to grab data that breaks this down? (33% from drive-by, 10% from referral, 9% from apartment finder, etc.) also would love to see a post about Human Directionals ;) www.gotchadirectionals.com -thanks in advance

1/30/2008

You know that blasted phone just rings off the hook sometimes and it's hard to get anything done for the phone ringing. You can take messages, but who has time to them follow-up with a stack of messages?

So the age-old dilemma.....how to manage constant interruptions from prospect walk-ins, resident pop-ins, emails, faxes and phone calls?

How can you control your day better and still provide coverage of the phone during business hours?

Here are some ideas.

12/26/2007
I received an email asking for ideas on how to market an apartment community to the public and the sender told me that they send advertising cakes to local businesses, hand out flyers to different businesses and they haven't really yielded any leads.  They asked for our assistance for ideas.
Welcome to Leasing Cafe's Blog
11/17/2007

My name is Becca Wilson and I'm the President/CEO of Spherexx.com which owns and operates LeasingCafe.com.  I worked in the property management industry for 11+ years before starting Spherexx.com in 2000.  So at this point I have 18 years in the property management business and I will use this blog as a forum to share ideas and thoughts about the industry I love.  If you are reading this blog, then you and I have the same interests, so I would really value your ideas for a blog topic - just use the button on this page to suggest a topic.  I'll provide my two cents and also pull together other industry experts to help expound on the topic.

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