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Cool Current Affairs

Dear Diana Mosher, Lost Me I recently read a MHN blog post titled: Who Owns the Residents’ Experience? and I found myself a bit taken aback on a multitude of fronts. In the vein of pure professional and constructive feedback, I think posts of this nature demand a little more homework to include some real world [...]

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We are taking the plunge at a hand full of our properties this year. We are dropping the fax lines and moving toward a scan and file interlude to paperless offices. Based on the results from this test; we may be able to carve out a $100+/- savings over the course of a year. That [...]

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Apartment Prospect

by Mike Brewer on March 14, 2011

I have been thinking a lot about the words consumer, prospect and resident lately. It seems as we continue to scale our social being over the likes of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or otherwise; we become more human. [Read: open, sharing and personable to those we know and are getting to know] That goes for corporations [...]

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Earlier tonight I was talking to 30 lines’ Mike Whaling about apartment websites, social media and business. Its been a very long bit of time since I really had any sort of meaningful conversation with Mike which is kind of sad. In the same respect I think it’s an absolute function of the state of [...]

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By the looks of it jail might be the best place for him but what if the judge ruled instead by requiring the owner to participate in the fixes.

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The core of Social Media is not “eyeballs and ears” but rather “hearts and minds.” Go for quality, not quantity. – As tweeted by @NW_Mktg_Guy I have read a few blog posts as of late that promote the thought of racing to certain thresholds of users on the various Social Media platforms, i.e. – 10k [...]

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After ten long months of living in flux – residents of CityView Apartments [formerly known as Plaza Square] in downtown St. Louis are going to see the property rehabbed. This is especially near and dear to me as it is part of a portfolio of real estate that I manage for Mills Properties – the [...]

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Seth has a new ebook out that I am sure is set to rock! I have admittedly only read about fifteen pages of the more than eighty pages. In that short space I was compelled to share it here. As I read more – I will come back and update this post as it relates to [...]

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Below are the results of a recent Nielsen survey of 25,000 consumers from 50 countries. Is it interesting that off-line trust leads the pack? And, by a fairly comfortable margin? I thought about it in my own life and while I do occasionally [when buying books] read a review or two before making a purchase [...]

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