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Faux wood, Faux blinds….Faux grass?

Mike Brewer — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:48:07 +0000

Think of the savings you could achieve in your water line item not to mention you landscaping line item.

Here is a little blurb [via WSJ]

Jude Albanese doesn’t pay a landscaper or run lots of sprinklers to maintain his lawn. He has retired his mower, and he doesn’t use fertilizer. Yet the grass in front of his New Jersey home looks so lush that some passersby feel the need to bend down and touch it.

The reason is simple: The grass is fake.

“You want to enjoy your yard, but it was always work and upkeep,” says the Nutley, N.J., homeowner, who had JM Synthetic Grass Surfacing install his faux lawn last month. “Now it’s much cleaner and neater. I should have done this years ago.”

Bulbstorm.com

Mike Brewer — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:48:44 +0000

I received and email about featuring the following company on our blog and at first I thought it didn’t really match the purpose. However, the more I read about the site the more I got excited about the potential uses for it.

I thought, how cool would it be if our community of readers (the real experts) came together to solve some of the age old issues in our space? How cool would it be to brainstorm with some of the industries finest minds? How cool would it be if we recorded something that turned into an amazing business concepts that we could share with others? I don’t about you but that kind of stuff jazzes me.

But, then I thought, isn’t that what we do here with this blog?

What are your thoughts?

Cool Tool for Apartment Managers

Mike Brewer — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:49:12 +0000

Jott sent to: Blog (TypePad). “I’m testing a new service call Jott,
which enables you to call a telephone number on your cellphone and
leave yourself a reminder or a message or even to blog like I’m doing
now. It seems pretty cool and I’m gonna continue to use before I
pass(?) my real my real judgment or offer my own opinion. Have a great
weekend and we’ll see you on Monday.”

I posted that by more or less leaving myself a message on my cell phone. This service is to cool to pass up and I see a lot of uses for it in our business.

Check it out [Here].

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Organization

Mike Brewer — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:00:43 +0000

I ran across this site this morning and found it to be pretty cool. It is a good link to drop in your apartment community specific social media sites too. Here is a blurb from their site.

"So you think businesspeople are the only folks who need a personal
planner? Think again: families need an organizer, too, to keep life
moving smoothly on the home front. Whether it’s called a household
notebook, a home management binder or family organizer, this simple
idea saves time, cuts stress, and enhances communication in any-sized
family or household."

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