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Act like a Apartment Owner

by Mike Brewer on January 27, 2012

You have heard it a million times if you have heard it once. “Act like an owner.” But, how do you get employees to act like owners? As it relates to the statement; I have two questions I like to ask people. First one relates to leadership and specifically employee issues; If you owned this [...]

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“But I put it in the drop box!” “Yes you did but it was after the due date.” But, it was in there before you opened your office this morning” The all to familiar ring around the first of the month. Time to pay the rent and the drop box is the perfect scape goat [...]

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There is much ado about who owns the Twitter following you may have and or may create over the course of a work stint. This story Lawsuit May Determine Who Owns a Twitter Account – NYTimes.com over at the NY times highlights a company that is taking the matter to court to determine the answer. Whatever the [...]

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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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I like what Seth has to say about the coming decade – Change: The infrastructure of massive connection is now real. People around the world have cell phones. The first internet generation is old enough to spend money, go to work and build companies. Industries are being built every day (and old ones are fading). [...]

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Apartment Marketing Anyone?

by Mike Brewer on December 30, 2009

Just received this pic via email – Yikes – I am thinking no amount of marketing – on or offline – experience or otherwise will help avoid this PR disaster. That is a 12-story building that just fell over – glad it is not one of mine. Unfortunately there was one fatality. They were attempting [...]

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