During my training classes I always encourage leasing professionals to use Craigslist postings. Where else can you get your message in front of hundreds of people looking to rent YOUR apartment, schedule your message to run when you want it to (and when you are available to promptly respond to inquiries) and best yet–it is [...]
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TOP 5 RENT SODA Blogs – Thanks for Reading!
The great thing about good content, it continues to be GOOD CONTENT. We are always striving for good blogs for our loyal readers! As the small type on the picture states: You can never learn less, you can only learn more. – Fuller R. Buckminster In case you missed out on some of the best, [...]
TOP 10 TIPS to Get the MOST Out of CRAIGSLIST Apartment Ads
Craigslist, when smartly used as part of your marketing/advertising campaign, can become one of your apartment community’s top traffic generators. If it’s not, you’re not getting the most out of your Craigslist ads. Here are the TOP 10 Things You Need to Know to Maximize Your Craigslist Ads for your Apartment Community: Generally, web traffic is [...]
Good Customer Service is Dead! Where is the LOVE?
You read it right -GOOD Customer Service is DEAD. Where is the LOVE? (Video: Black Eyed Peas — Where is the Love?) This is actually good news — If you are one of the few apartment communities that consistently provides good customer service, you are WAY ahead of the game. Even if you THINK you’re doing [...]
Apartment Communities: 10 Elements of an Effective Pet Policy
With vacancies at 10 year high’s, apartment communities are finding ways to become more appealing to the apartment dweller. An area that you can use to broaden your renter population: Pet Owners! (The happy spirit pictured is my dog, Jazz, one of the happiest, most loving dogs EVER. I would never live someplace that does [...]
Lack of Motivation? Leasing Stalled? How to Change Your Tune
All this talk about a depression, soft market and price drops. OH MY! Not to mention pay freezes, working twice as hard for half as much traffic, it’s not a wonder that there is a lack of motivation out there. How do we change this and re-invigorate our teams, win leases, and enjoy our jobs [...]
Being Shy About Business Won’t Win Leases – How to Take Your Competition OUT!
Everyone knows – being shy about business – especially leasing, won’t win you any leases. Have fears or doubts? Your prospects can smell it a mile away -and so can your competion. So what WILL win you leases? This is a picture of me in 2nd grade. I had just transferred to a new school. I was [...]
Apartment Jobs: From Resume to Job Offer: How to get the CALL!
I LOVE American Idol. At the audition stage in the game, when the judges are trying to find the best talent in each city, in 10 seonds or less, they can tell whether someone MIGHT have what it takes to “Be The NEXT American Idol.” In some ways, American Idol is very similar to the [...]
Apartment Marketing: Get READY, Get SHARP – Call your ILS Account Rep!
1/12 of the year is over, and the clock is ticking. Have you made progress towards your occupancy goals, or have you started the year off already behind? Your PRIME leasing season is coming – are you ready? Whatever the case, the best way to maximize your upcoming leasing opener is to call your Internet Listing [...]
Personnel/Personal Development: Do You Have a Plan?
When it come to personnel development – do you have a plan? How about PERSONAL development – do you have a plan? Success comes from within. For an organization to be successful, in order for your apartment project to be successful, the success must come from within. At the very heart of each project, at [...]