The response to my blog has been overwhelming! Thank you so much for the support AND, the most rewarding surprise: I have received tons of emails and comments (sometimes a call too!) about YOUR stories! Reading and listening to your stories has made me laugh, cry, sometimes even gag a little – the full gamet of emotions. As more and more of you contacted me about YOUR funny, heart-warming, odd stories, I realized that for an industry that has some of the smartest, funniest, most caring people I have ever known, YOUR voices and YOUR stories are seldom heard or shared. (Except maybe behind closed doors.)
Why is this? Usually fear. Fear of our bosses, fear that somehow, we are the ONLY ones that have ever experienced something this crazy, fear of violating fair housing regulations, fear of our competition, fear of the unknown. Well, fear no more.
It was obvious to me that even though you FEARED telling someone, you didn’t have a fear telling me. Perhaps it was because you saw my post about me, and realized I wasn’t some scary, crazy, one-eyed blogger? Perhaps you identified with my stories? Perhaps you heard something in my blog that rang true? Perhaps you knew I would read, laugh, cry and listen with you? Well, ALL of the above!
So, this brings me to some very exciting news. I have registered the URL RENTERTAINING.com. RENTERTAINING.com will be a sister company/website/blog to RENT SODA. RENTERTAINING.com showcases YOUR stories. You can be anonymous, or you can identify yourself. Whatever your comfort zone is. Any incriminating details will be removed to protect the identities of the innocent. (GRIN!) But the content - YOUR story will shine through so that others, real people in this very real indsutry of ours, can laugh and cry with you. Just as I did.
So, with that, I am putting out a call for YOUR stories. Email me at daisy {at} rentertaining(.)com. Over the next few weeks, I will be working on RENTERTAINING.com (don’t check it yet, there’s nothing up yet), and hope to launch it for New Year’s. Just in time to start off 2010 right.
Your partner in pursuit of laughter,
-Daisy Nguyen in Minneapolis, Minnesota
CEO
Business & Marketing Consulting to the Apartment Industry
Web: RentSoda.com Email: Daisy {at} RentSoda(.)com
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