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The Thanksgiving Lead Test: Does Your After-Hours Leasing Tech Actually Work?
The turkey's in the oven. The office lights are off. And somewhere across town, a renter is scrolling apartment listings on their phone while the family argues about football. That renter is about to send your community a message. What happens next? Thanksgiving week is one of the quietest stretches of the leasing calendar for your team, but it's often one of the busiest for prospects. People are off work, home with family, and finally getting around to planning that move. Ma
4 days ago4 min read
Ask Before Budgets Lock: Raises, Certifications, and Training in November
Here's a little industry secret: Your raise for next year is being discussed now, not in January. November is crunch time for property budgets. Owners and asset managers are reviewing next year's numbers, regional teams are defending payroll lines, and once that spreadsheet gets signed off, there isn't much wiggle room left. If you plan to ask for a raise in property management, earn a new certification, or get paid training in 2027, the smartest move you can make is to ask b
4 days ago4 min read
The Year-End Vendor Report Card: Grading Your Partners Before Contracts Renew
It's that time of year. Budgets are due, renewal notices are stacking up, and someone in a meeting just said, "Let's just roll it over to next year." Auto-renewing a vendor contract is easy, but it's also how mediocre partners quietly become permanent fixtures at your properties. Before you sign on for another year, give every partner a proper report card. Your residents, your on-site teams, and your budget will thank you. Here's how to grade fairly, quickly, and with data in
4 days ago4 min read
Your Leasing Office Is Now a Mailroom: 7 Ways to Take Your Front Desk Back
The Box Tower is Back Somewhere between the last of the Halloween candy and the first New Year's resolution, your leasing office quietly changes jobs. The front desk becomes a sorting table. The storage closet fills to the ceiling. And your best leasing pro, the one who should be touring prospects, is playing a very serious game of package Tetris. And this year, the tower is getting taller. Adobe forecasts US shoppers will spend $275.1 billion online between Nov. 1 and Dec. 3
4 days ago4 min read
BG Staffing October Jobs Report: The Labor Market Had More Gas in the Tank
165,000 jobs. That's what the U.S. economy added in October, more than three times its average monthly pace over the past year. And here's the part that really caught our eye: the BLS went back and found 84,000 more jobs in August and September than it first reported. Last month we called the labor market quiet. Turns out it was just getting its footing. For property management, the news is good too. Rental and Leasing Services added jobs again in October and is now back abov
5 days ago3 min read
The Quiet Resident Problem: Why the Residents You Never Hear From Are Your Biggest Renewal Risk
Every property has a few residents your whole team knows by name. They call about the dishwasher. They email about the pool hours. They stop by the leasing office just to chat. Sometimes they test your patience! Here's the twist. Those residents probably aren't your biggest renewal risk. The real risk is the resident in 2B who has never submitted a work order, never opened a newsletter, and never once stopped by the office. You might assume silence means satisfaction. More of
Nov 33 min read
From Service to Service: Translating Military Experience Into Property Management
You spent years keeping equipment running, people safe, and missions on schedule. Then you take off the uniform, open a job board, and every listing seems to speak a language you never learned. Here's the good news. Property management already speaks yours. Apartment communities and commercial buildings run on the same sort of things the military does: readiness, teamwork, accountability, and a plan for when things go sideways at 2 a.m. Military Experience: Same Skills, New Z
Nov 33 min read
Before the Crowds Hit: A Black Friday Game Plan for Retail Centers
This Black Friday, shoppers will remember the deals and tenants will remember everything else. That includes the parking lot, the restrooms, the escalator that worked (or didn't), and how fast someone showed up when a spill hit the food court floor. That's your team's moment. And the best retail centers don't wing it. They plan for it weeks out, staff for it days out, and walk the property one last time before the first car pulls in. A Black Friday Game Plan Start With a Full
Nov 33 min read
Your January Resignations Start in November
Nobody quits on a Tuesday in November. At least not out loud. But the resignation letter that lands on your desk the first week of January? It was written in November. Maybe not on paper. It was written in your leasing agent's head, in your maintenance tech's group chat, in the quiet moment your community manager decided these holidays would be her last ones with your company. Turnover has a season. If you manage properties, that season is about to start. Why November is Deci
Nov 34 min read
Sunsetting Software: How to Retire a Platform Without Losing Data or People
Every piece of software has an expiration date. Your property management system, your maintenance app, and the leasing CRM that someone set up in 2017 and nobody fully understands. Eventually, each one gets retired. The switch itself is rarely difficult. The hard part is everything riding on the old platform: years of resident ledgers, lease histories, and work orders, plus the on-site teams who know its quirks by heart. Lose either one and a routine upgrade turns into a very
Oct 285 min read
Is That Really a Recruiter? How to Spot a Job Scam
Your phone buzzes. A friendly message from a "recruiter" says your resume is a perfect fit for a leasing consultant role. The pay is great, the hours are flexible, and they'd love to hire you today (no interview needed). It sounds like a dream, but it might be a scam. Fake recruiters are everywhere right now. The FTC says reported job scams, including imposters posing as recruiters, topped 105,000 in 2024. That's nearly triple the 2020 number, with more than $513 million in r
Oct 284 min read
What Would You Do with One Extra Hour?
Most of our markets fell back and got one glorious extra hour of sleep this week. But it got us thinking about the people who never really get a spare minute: the leasing agents, maintenance techs, and on-site managers who keep properties running every minute of every day. So we asked our LinkedIn community a simple question: If you could give your property team one extra hour every day, where would you want it spent? Nearly half of the audience picked training. That's more t
Oct 272 min read
Fall Back, Light Up: What the Time Change Means for Your Property
For much of the country, clocks recently fell back an hour. Everyone loves the extra sleep, but your property just lost an hour of evening daylight. In a lot of markets, the sun will set before 5 p.m. That means residents come home from work in the dark, dog walkers hit the sidewalks after sunset, and your 5:30 tour now happens under the parking lot lights. If those lights are on the wrong schedule (or not on at all), people notice fast. The good news: getting ready is simple
Oct 273 min read
What the RealPage and EliseAI Pause Means for Your Operations
If you run RealPage and have EliseAI on your 2027 roadmap, October got a lot more interesting. On October 7, RealPage told customers it was pausing all new site activations with EliseAI, the AI platform many operators use for leasing and resident communication. Communities already running EliseAI on RealPage will stay connected for now. New properties and new EliseAI products, though, are on hold with no end date announced. Here's what happened, what it means on the ground, a
Oct 224 min read
The Career Advantage of Knowing How a Property Actually Makes Money
You can rock a tour, close a lease, and fix a garbage disposal in under ten minutes. Those skills matter a lot. But if you want to move up in property management, there's one more skill that sets people apart. Knowing how a property actually makes money. It sounds like something only owners and asset managers worry about. But once you understand the numbers behind your community, every part of your job starts to make more sense. Meet NOI, Your New Best Friend Most property pe
Oct 214 min read
The Scariest Thing on Your Property? An Open Position.
Forget the creaky stairwell and the flickering light in Building C. This season, what should really give property managers chills is much quieter. It's the empty chair in the leasing office, an unassigned work order, and the groundskeeping shift nobody's covering. An open position doesn't jump out at you. It creeps. And by the time you notice, it's already haunting every corner of your property. A Haunting Open Position It Starts Small One leasing agent gives notice. No big d
Oct 213 min read
Trick or Treat? What Your Property Team Really Wants
The month of October is a wild ride. Residents are decorating balconies, package rooms are overflowing, and the first cold snap sends work orders flying. Somewhere in the middle of it all, your on-site team is holding everything together. So, here's a seasonal question worth asking: when it comes to keeping your people happy, are you handing out tricks or treats? Some perks look sweet from the outside but leave teams feeling empty. Others cost very little and make a real diff
Oct 213 min read
Nightmare on Your Street: The 7 Things Keeping Your Property Team Up at Night
In property management, the scariest things are usually waiting in your inbox first thing Monday morning. For multifamily property management teams, the daily demands of keeping residents happy, properties running smoothly, and operations on track can feel like a never-ending horror story. And when one challenge goes unresolved, it can quickly turn into several more. The good news? Most operational nightmares don't have to become permanent fixtures of your community. By ident
Oct 146 min read
Don’t Get Scared by the Salary Question: How to Talk About Pay with Confidence
Few moments in a job interview can make candidates more nervous than hearing, “What are your salary expectations?” Should you give a specific number? Will asking for too much price you out of the opportunity? Could asking for too little leave money on the table? If these questions sound familiar, you’re not alone. Talking about money can feel uncomfortable, especially when you’re excited about a potential new role and don’t want to jeopardize your chances. But here’s the good
Oct 146 min read
The Great Q4 Trade-Off: What Should CRE Teams Do Now vs. Next Year?
As the end of the year approaches, commercial real estate (CRE) teams face a familiar challenge: There’s still plenty to accomplish, but there’s only so much time left to do it. Between closing out budgets, addressing property needs, planning for the year ahead, and keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly, the fourth quarter can quickly become a juggling act. Every initiative feels important, and every department has a list of priorities that would be nice to cross off
Oct 145 min read
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