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If you're like us, each month you wait anxiously for the postman to arrive with the latest copy of Units, the National Apartment Association's magazine...

*UPDATE- House Passes HR 2454 219-212, will now head to Senate* Today the House will vote on HR 2454, (at press time, House Minority Leader John Boehner was filibustering the House by reading selections from a 300 page amendment, you can watch live here) the American Energy and Security Act; this...

MyNewPlace has just unleashed a free Craigslist tool designed to help apartments get more online exposure and attract more prospects. This new capability will easily allow property managers and leasing specialists to post ads to Craigslist using details pulled from their listing on MyNewPlace...

REITs CNN Money's online edition clues investors in on the disproportionately high dividend yields offered by REITs. While the average stock dividend from the S&P was about 2.6 percent, the average REIT dividend averaged 7 percent...

The GREEN Act Reintroduced According to Multi Housing News Online, Colorado Representative Ed Perlmutter has reintroduced legislation (H.R. 2336) that would bring energy efficiency to the single and multifamily housing markets. Mr...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post from our friends over at Relocation.com, who will be providing us with information on how to gracefully handle relocating. Entire books could be written on mistakes people make when planning their move...

In college towns across the nation, there is always at least a little tension between students and town residents. College students are only residents of the town for a few years and therefore have much less of a long term stake in the neighborhoods that they inhabit...

Couple Scams HUD, Goes Directly to Jail (does not collect $200) A couple in New Haven, Connecticut were arrested for devising a plan to scam that city's public housing agencies out of money that should have gone to needy families...

After examining last month's data, we found an interesting cyclical pattern in our browser report; the percentage of users who visit our site with Firefox increases every weekend, and then retreats every Monday to a percentage below Internet Explorer version 6.0...

On Monday we received urgent electronic correspondence from the National Multi Housing Council alerting its recipients to the May 7th passage of H.R. 1728 by the United States House of Representatives...

Some very important news for the apartment rental industry accompanies the beginning of an exciting week for us here at MyNewPlace. That important news, however, can wait until tomorrow as MyNePlace is movin' on up...

Some of our good friends in the apartment internet listing service industry have put together some great information and helpful resources to help renters and property managers avoid scams that could cost thousands of dollars...

Today, we are very happy to announce that our mobile site is live! You can check it out by going to http://m.mynewplace.com and find more information on our press release, MyNewPlace Announces MyNewPlace for Mobile...

Today is a very special day for MyNewPlace, it is our third birthday. In honor of this landmark, today, we will reveal some of the untold lore surrounding the official launch, three years ago...

On Monday April 27th, both the U.S. Census Bureau and RealFacts.com released first quarter rental statistics, with some discrepancy, but both indicating a prolonged decrease in demand for rental housing...

In this month's issue of units, (published by the NAA) the dominant theme was how green technology is going to shape the apartment industry. Coming up at the end of this month the NAA will host the first annual Green Conference and Exposition in Phoenix...

Today, we're happy to announce our partnership with OpsTechnology, a leading provider of spend management systems to the multifamily industry. MyNewPlace is the first Internet Listing Service to integrate with OpsTechnology's eBilling solution...

From this month's issue of units magazine's Political Insider section, we learn that President Obama's economic stimulus act includes significant provisions that will benefit the apartment industry...

It seems like every few months we come across a story about the controversy that surrounds a person's right to smoke in their apartment versus the rights of other residents to have a smoke free apartment...

Starting this week, MyNewPlace users will be able to post/Tweet apartments they are looking at to their Twitter profiles...

Last week, we wrote an article about the unfortunate circumstances that followed when a rental property was foreclosed on and a court appointed a receivership to run the property...

Back in December we reported on some good news for renters and property managers, which was the result of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's lawsuit prompted decision to allow qualified renters in foreclosed properties that have been absorbed by the GSEs to remain in their homes...

Recently we came across an article via the Rainmaker Group's twitterstream about how tenants in a Chandler, AZ apartment building caused a bit of a kerfuffle after they found their security deposits gone, the apartment in serious neglect and yet still somehow bound to their apartments by their...

Last night, we added some new functionality to our apartment details pages that will show you what's in the neighborhood...

Over the next few months, MyNewPlace founder and CEO John Helm will host workshops in select cities across the US focusing on cost -effective resident acquisition...

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan released details on February 20th of a new plan designed to reach out to renters who are still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...

Just last week we redesigned our Search Results Page (SRP) to improve your apartment search experience. Our SRP is the page on which you arrive after you search for apartments in a particular city...

Apartment marketing professionals have been keeping a sharp eye on how the rampant foreclosures are affecting rental supply across the nation. Of course, unemployment figures are worrisome and are a key indicator of expected rental performance, but what of the looming specter of the shadow market...

A new feature that was overshadowed by our recent implementation of Facebook Connect on MyNewPlace, is the “send to phone" option on our property pages...

Last month, we relayed information from REIS, Inc regarding how apartment rents had decreased for the first time in 5 years in Q4 of 2008...

Yesterday, we discussed the best way to deal with one of your roommates decides that they would like to move out and find a new apartment for rent. But what to do if you are the only one left...

Starting today, MyNewPlace users have a new resource to help them find apartments for rent â their friends and social graph. We know that finding and moving into a new place is an important event and we want to make it easy for you to get good advice from those you know and trust...

The Battle for Smoke Free Apartments Heats Up For the past year we have been tracking the development of the controversial issue of smoking in apartments...