The telephone is your single most important leasing tool and it’s probably the easiest “tool” to operate at your community, but is everyone answering it when it rings?

Unsustainably High Appreciation Continues in Phoenix, Las Vegas and California, But National Moderation Could Indicate Stabilization, According to First Quarter Zillow Real Estate Market Reports

The national housing market showed signs of moderation in the first quarter after months of robust and largely unsustainable annual home value appreciation. The Zillow® Home Value Index (ZHVI)[i] rose to $157,600 as of the end of the first quarter, up 5.1 percent year-over-year and 0.5 percent from the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the first quarter Zillow Real Estate Market Reports[ii].

$2 million in HUD Continuum of Care funds awarded recently is over & above $68.4 million in
renewal funding awarded to 408 Alaska, Oregon & Washington homeless projects in March, 2013

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan recently awarded an additional $2,070,603 in renewal funds to 19 homeless projects in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska in a second round of renewal grants under HUD's Continuum of Care. Recently's awards will ensure these HUD-assisted local homeless assistance projects remain operating in the coming year.

Domestic Violence Lease Termination

For several years now, Arizona law has allowed victims of domestic violence to terminate residential leases early. According to A.R.S. § 33-1318, a tenant may terminate their rental agreement if they provide written notice that they are “the victim of domestic violence as defined in section 13-3601.” Interpretation of this statute can be difficult.

A recent string of thefts has been plaguing Valley apartment communities. Opportunistic miscreants are targeting rent drop boxes at apartment communities, preying on those communities and the residents who pay their rent via the drop boxes. In the aftermath of these thefts, landlords and residents are left with one very important question: who is responsible for replacement of the stolen payments? This question has yet to be formally answered by the Arizona trial courts.

5 Practical Ideas to Green Up your Bottom Line

It seems that everyone is taking steps to go a little green. So what’s it mean for property managers? Is it worth your time and effort to promote a green agenda?

What apartment seekers are looking for in their next home – and how they’re finding it

The next generation of renters is equipped with more access to information than ever before. Recent survey data published by ForRent.com, sister site of Homes.com, sheds light on what renters are looking for and the methods they’re using to find it. With more than 8,000 responses, the month-long survey revealed convenience and cost-efficiency are most important to apartment-dwellers.

You can feel the frustration, can’t you? So much of management is getting people to do what you want. Whether it’s your staff, your kids or your spouse, it can be so aggravating when they simply don’t do what you ask! Well, because I’m not a marriage counselor, I’m going to ignore that part of life. However, if you promise not to tell, I will admit that I do apply this to my parenting strategies.

After months of negotiation, the Arizona Department of Real Estate (ADRE) has agreed to allow multi-family leasing documents, including apartment finder fee documents, to be stored electronically or on-site at an apartment community’s leasing office. Prior to these new ruling, brokers were required to store these documents at the designated broker’s corporate office.

Prices for apartments built in King County since the beginning of 2000 rose rapidly through 2007. Then they fell during the recession. It took until this year for prices to regain lost ground and set new highs. How did that happen? What can we expect next?

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We usually talk about trends for 20-unit and larger apartments. But there are a lot more investors involved in smaller rental properties like single-family rentals, multiplexes, and 5 to 19 unit apartment buildings. The proof: Each spring we survey just over 2,100 20-unit and larger properties and more than 5,000 smaller properties. so this week we will talk about some of the trends we found in King County from our smaller property survey, published last week.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tax reform must be comprehensive and take special care not to harm the thousands of businesses involved in multifamily real estate nor the 35 million Americans who call an apartment home. This was the focus of testimony by the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) and the National Apartment Association (NAA) before the House Committee on Ways and Means today.

Remember the Pepsi Challenge commercials from the 1970s? Pepsi won because it was sweeter, or so the story goes. Apartment investors often ask us which is sweeter, apartments with fewer bedrooms or those with more. They want to know which unit types will perform best in a recession, and which will perform best overall. Well, let's take a look.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Apartment markets improved across all areas according to the National Multi Housing Council’s (NMHC) April Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions. All four indexes – Market Tightness (54), Sales Volume (55), Equity Financing (56) and Debt Financing (59) – came in above 50, which indicates improving conditions. This reverses last January’s findings, where Market Tightness and Sales Volume dipped below 50 for the first time since 2010.

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