Continental Makes My No Fly List
November 17th 7:10 AM   I’m typing this while aboard Continental flight 223 in route to Houston for the fabulous Multifamily Pro Brainstorming Conference t

I give you a FAIL WHALE
I watch my Twitter and Facebook streams and they are making me more and more annoyed by the day.  I'm going to hand out some Fail Whales here.It's true I'm a huge proponent of multifamily social media.  I think that those properties who's core demographic would be on the networks should take advantage of the opportunities granted in communicating with this medium.  Putting my money where my mouth is, I'm personally on Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, my own blog here, profiles at Multifamily Insiders, and several other places.  It makes me easy to find, confer with, and easy to talk about.  That is the point.  I'm a fan of several apartment communiti

5 "Spooky" Suggestions for Your October Marketing - Originally posted to AppFolio's E-zine
I adore Halloween.  I love it almost as much as I love Christmas, and I am one of those weird people who has multiple Christmas trees in their house.  I started decorating the other day for Halloween, putting up my glow in the dark skeletons and using that black light sensitive spider webbing to coat the stairwells in my townhouse, and I convinced Alan to invest in this very cool little machine from Target that blows bubbles filled with fog.  I'm not alone here.  According to Marketing Charts and the National Retail Foundation, th

Does Size Really Matter? - Originally Posted with Appfolio's Property Manager E-Zine
Let's play a game.  I'm going to show you two pictures and I want you to pick which dog you think would be a better fur-resident in your community, bearing in mind your current pet policy and your own personal prejudices and biases to certain dogs. This Is Fox.     Which Dog Do   You Like More?

Talent Retention T-Day: "Yes, Dogs Allowed!"
If you've been reading my blog for a while, you're probably already aware that I'm pretty pro-pet.  It's not that I don't understand or see the view point of communities that choose to not allow dogs or cats.  I do, and I think that the reasoning behind it is pretty sound.  But as a pet owner, I'm biased in my opinion, which is okay, because it's my blog and I'm allowed to be.But this isn't a post about your pet policy for your renters.  Remember, it's a Talent Retention TDay, so we're talking about your employees and how to keep them o