Most of us are familiar with movies like “Caddyshack”, “Groundhog Day”, “Stripes”, and of course, the “Ghostbusters” movies. Harold Ramis was not only a beloved actor, but he also was a talented writer and director. He passed today at age 69, of complications due to autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis. He’d been battling the condition for the past four years.
I am a professional blogger. This means, I write for all sorts of vectors. I am well versed in branding and marketing. Branding is something that I believe is a very important business move, and it’s something that is universal. You are your brand, when you run a business and the image you present is important. This is something that can help to foster a great deal of trust in you as a business...
Multi-family housing across the nation is on the uptick due to restricted credit markets and other economic issues. More and more people are shifting towards lifestyles that involve a lot of flexibility and all of this comes together to broaden rental markets. Because more people want the flexibility to move, should opportunity arise for better job prospects and because many people are hesitant...
The US Senate floor was lively in January with over 30 Democrats urging initiatives to help Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to continue working on affordable housing programs. There are two unused funds that have been established by Congress since 2008, in order to finance such programs- using a part of the two organization’s revenue to fund it. In November, funds were suspended by the Federal Housing...
So, many blogs have been advocating being more pet friendly in your rentals, but what about livestock?
If you’ve got images of cows running through the courtyard of your apartment complex- you’ve got a great imagination and are taking it a little too far. What I am talking about is a recent trend that’s got some people crowing with delight and others squawking.
The Cigna Insurance website offers the above chart to help you better understand these changes and the associated penalties. They also offer several informative PDFs for further reading.
It’s recently come to our attention that an individual(s) believed to be in the Czech Republic (probably looking something like the guy on the left) is luring tenants, primarily out of Canada, to attractive rental properties at great rental rates, only to be scammed into wiring funds to an overseas bank account. It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, it’s elaborate, and it’s...
We’re always happy to share our vision and what we’re doing with others. Recently, Jacob Thomason met with All Property Management to discuss the RentPost platform and how it can help property managers and landlords, alike. All Property Management did a quick write-up on the meeting and posted it on their blog. Feel free to have a read.
Each year, the National Fair Housing Alliance compiles a report outlining the issues of that year. The 2013 Fair Housing Trends Report has just come out and indicates that complaints are actually up by about 5%. In 2012, the report shows that there were about 28, 518 complaints total. Additionally, this report does include those that were investigated by the US Department of Housing and Urban...
The US Census Bureau reported that the US population went up by about 4% in the years between 2006-2011. During that time, though, there was only a 3% increase in households- this broke down to a 2% for family households, but a 5% growth in non-related households. That would seem to indicate that roommates are a growing section of the market. This definitely has some bearing on the recent boom in...
Uncertainties in the market are not causing issue with builder confidence, but also, not increasing it, the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) index reveals. This same market uncertainty has been creating tensions with both builders and buyers for some time now, but recently has remained roughly the same. As of last month, the trend was downwardly revised at a level of 54.
According to Jones Lang LaSalle, or JLL, sales volumes on multifamily housing in the United States shot up about 47% from the months of July to September after a dragging second quarter. Sales volumes on multifamily housing hit about 25 billion dollars during that time. Researchers cite the housing hangover, population growth in the empty nesters and Echo Boomers, and the rise in households...
We’re happy to announce the latest update to the RentPost system. Just this past week we’ve been pushing out a series of releases around two different systems. The first is our email system. We’ve made some infrastructure improvements to how email is handled and delivered through RentPost. Our hope is that this will continue to increase our deliverability rate. We...
According to Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey conducted from July 22, 2013 through Aug. 1, 2013 by Pulsenomics LLC, more than 100 economists, real estate experts, and investment and market strategies forecasted 6.7% annual gain in home values for 2013. This is higher than the earlier expected growth of 5.4%. Panelists said the expected median U.S. home values would rise to an average of...
We’ve just pushed out a new release that includes support for #9 standard double window envelopes (invoice double window) as well as #10 standard single window envelopes for all your tenant statements. It will actually support a few others as well, but these are specifically the ones tested and for which the tenant statements were designed. The new design brings some other changes to...
It’s been a minute since we last spoke about updates. So, as I’m sure you can imagine, we’ve been really busy. We’ve been diligently working on many core enhancements to the RentPost platform that will enable us to, not only provide a faster and more robust experience, but also pave the way to lots of new and exciting features. The latest update that’s just been...
Tutorial videos have arrived! We have created many different videos that will guide you in making the most out of your Rentpost account. Check them out on our YouTube channel or on our support forums under video tutorials. Some of the videos include: how to add a unit and tenants, how to create late fee schedules and management fee structures, moving out tenants, and every angle in creating and...
We’ve just added support for all of RentPost’s awesome property management features in our Aqua plan, starting at only $29/mo. We’ve heard from many smaller property management companies and others just getting started that they needed a cheaper entry point. Well, we’re announcing just that. So, now you can get all the great features of RentPost for even less...
Hot on the heels of our last update is another one. This time we have added some exciting improvements to the tenant profiles. You’ll now have access to the latest feed items recorded for a tenant and a ledger style transaction history report. When generating your management fees, we’ve improved the workflow. Now you can generate the owner statements, view and verify all the...
We’re very pleased to announce the latest release to RentPost and we think you’ll all be pretty excited about this one! Let’s all start the new year off right, and stay more organized than ever. And with our new Document Storage system elegantly built into the RentPost system, it’ll even be enjoyable! Yep, I said it! Staying organized can now be enjoyable! The new...
In lieu of some recent events with the migration, we’ve postponed this event until the night of November 18. All other factors will hold equal and as previously stated. Again, we’re looking forward to having this completed as we’ve been testing it internally and the speeds are great! Thanks!
Keeping everyone in the loop, I wanted to share the latest regarding RentPost’s infrastructure and our current initiatives moving forward as we prepare for a move of our production environment. Over the past couple months we’ve been experiencing increasingly large usage numbers. This is great, we couldn’t be happier! Thank you all for the continued support! As a result of...
It’s update time again! This time we’ve added the ability to filter your rent roll by unit group and by owner. This comes in addition to our intelligent filter, which you can find on all of your reports. With this addition, you’ll be able to get exactly what you want out of your rent roll.
We heard your demands for this, we listened, and we’ve delivered!
We’ve released the latest update for RentPost. With this update comes a few exciting new features and some large core changes. The first new feature is a company field to all commercial tenant records. If you fill in details for the company, it will now be displayed over the first and last name throughout the software. Next we’ve added the ability for you to choose the date when...
Money talks, and when it does, we listen. So we’ve all, undoubtedly, heard the sound of circulating cash. As the dollar moves between buyer and seller, an anticipatory “Cha…” sets the buck in motion, while a conclusive “…Ching” finalizes the exchange. “Cha-Ching!” – the chime of money in motion and growing prosperity. However, once the drowning noise of collection agencies disrupt the harmonious...