
A whole new blog category was born out of the marriage between a rant about throwing off the Comcast Cable yoke and a hilarious magazine cover from the 70's. We are way more than ironically enthused to continue featuring articles in the developing genre of Apartment Life 2.0...

A move into a new apartment is such a well suited time to institute the kind of lifestyle changes that people tend to consider from December 31st until, oh let's say February 1st...

The good news is that the bad news kind of helps out the apartment industry. Basically the news is good for some people and bad for others, but to the people it's bad for, it is not news at all. And then, there is the bad news...

The contentious issue of smoking in apartments, which we've covered before, has finally made it to the DrudgeReport...

It has long been debated amongst pet owners which species best accompanies man in his domestic dwelling. It has been an intense and unrelenting debate most likely due to the fact that– as in academic politics–the contention is so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low. We...

Last week on Multifamily Insiders, Michael Cunningham of Real Page wrote an article, Imaginary Roommates Don't Pay Rent, which examined the much discussed rental phenomenon of doubling up. Mr...

Hello everyone! We are happy to be hosting the 158th Carnival of Real Estate; we received many great entries, six of which we have decided to share with the CORE readership...

REITs Boost Occupancy Rates Last week, some good news for the multifamily industry appeared in an article from Multifamily Executive article titled Apartment Firms Report Slight Upticks in Occupancy...

Last week, on the front page of the Personal Journal section of the Wall Street Journal was a lengthy article profiling families who had bought a house, but ended up needing to move and then couldn't sell their house for anywhere near the amount they had bought it...

The notably progressive major metropolitan centers of the American northwest (San Francisco, Portland and Seattle) all have drawn up plans to green over central parts of their cities...

This morning I attended a webinar hosted by Aimee Miller of Appfolio and Brent Williams of Multifamily Insiders, featuring a presentation by Mike Whaling of 30lines discussing how apartment communities can improve their online marketing strategies. Mr...

At the beginning of the month we discussed the NMHC's Apartment Market Conditions survey for the second quarter of 2009, which used 4 indices to measure perceived changes on Vacancies, Sales Volume, Equity and Debt Financing...

Yesterday, we posted an article in our Apartment Guide about a creative way to bring the outdoors inside apartments. The indoor vertical wall garden is just about as cool a way of decorating your apartment as shag carpeting and Absolut Vodka ads...









