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Explore thought leadership, market insights, and workforce trends across our core specialties: Multifamily, Senior, and Student Housing Property Management, Commercial Real Estate, and PropTech Staffing.
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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
3 days ago5 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
3 days ago4 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
4 days ago2 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
4 days ago3 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 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
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
How Many Clicks Does It Take to Get One Thing Done?
Let's play a little game: think about a task you complete regularly at work. Maybe it's updating a resident record, pulling a report, processing an invoice, or tracking down a piece of information. Now, count the clicks it takes to get it done. One click to log in. Another to open the right platform. Three more to find the correct record. A few extra to navigate between screens. Then, just when you think you're finished, you realize you need information from another system. S
Oct 144 min read
The Skills That Can Make You More Marketable in Multifamily
Multifamily is an industry built around people, but succeeding in today’s environment takes more than being a people person. Property teams are navigating changing resident expectations, tighter budgets, new technology, evolving operational demands, and an ongoing need to do more with fewer resources. For professionals looking to grow their careers, the skills that make you marketable are expanding, too. Whether you're trying to land your first role in multifamily, move into
Oct 64 min read
Interviewing Is a Leadership Skill: How Property Managers Can Become Better Hiring Managers
Property managers wear many hats. They manage budgets, oversee operations, respond to residents, support their teams, and keep properties running smoothly. But one of their most important responsibilities often gets less attention: hiring the people who will help them do it all. The ability to identify the right candidate, ask meaningful questions, evaluate potential, and create a positive candidate experience directly impacts a property's performance. A strong hire can stren
Oct 64 min read
The Haunted Workflow: “That’s How We’ve Always Done It”
Some processes have a strange ability to survive long after they’ve stopped making sense. The spreadsheet that gets updated three different ways. The approval process that requires five emails and a follow-up call. The report someone spends hours creating because “that’s how we’ve always done it.” The task that belongs to everyone, which somehow means it belongs to no one. These are the haunted workflows of property management. They may not rattle chains or appear in the hall
Oct 64 min read
BG Staffing September Jobs Report: Nobody's Leaving, and That Changes How You Hire
29,000 jobs. That's all the U.S. economy added in September, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics described every major industry as "little changed." Then came the revisions. July and August were cut by a combined 60,000 jobs, pushing July into negative territory. Quiet? Absolutely. But tucked inside the industry tables is a number every property management team should circle. Rental and Leasing Services added 2,700 jobs, its best month since March. The Headline Numbers The un
Oct 23 min read
Who Has the Password? And Other Signs Your Property Has a Knowledge Problem
Every property has information that keeps the operation moving. Some of it lives in software. Some of it lives in shared drives, emails, training documents, and standard operating procedures. And some of it lives in one person’s head. That last category can be surprisingly risky. Maybe one team member knows how to access a rarely used system. Another knows the exact process for handling a particular resident issue. Someone else remembers which vendor to call when the usual co
Sep 295 min read
What Happens When Your Growth Strategy Outpaces Your CRE Team?
Growth is exciting. New properties, new markets, new clients, and new opportunities can signal that a commercial real estate company is doing something right. But growth also creates a challenge that can be easy to overlook: your team has to grow with it. When the pace of expansion moves faster than your workforce can realistically support, even a strong growth strategy can begin to create operational strain. Teams that were once able to manage their workloads efficiently may
Sep 294 min read
The Multitasking Myth: Why Property Teams Need More Focus, Not More Tasks
In property management, multitasking can feel less like a skill and more like a requirement. A property manager might be reviewing a budget when a resident walks into the office. A leasing professional may be responding to an inquiry while answering a phone call and coordinating a tour. A maintenance supervisor may be tracking work orders when an urgent request comes through. At any given moment, there are competing priorities, unexpected interruptions, and another task waiti
Sep 295 min read
The PropTech Emergency Room: Is Your Technology Actually Sick?
Is your property technology working as hard as your team? Or is it quietly creating more problems than it solves? In multifamily, technology is supposed to make operations easier. It should save time, streamline processes, improve the resident experience, and give property teams better information to make smarter decisions. But what happens when your technology isn't doing any of those things? It might be time for a PropTech checkup. Think of your technology ecosystem like a
Sep 245 min read
What’s Really Draining Your Property Team’s Productivity?
Property teams have a lot on their plates. Leasing, resident needs, maintenance requests, vendor coordination, reporting, compliance, staffing, meetings—the list goes on. So we asked our LinkedIn community: What’s the biggest productivity drain for your property team? The results were surprisingly close: While meetings took the top spot, the bigger takeaway is that there isn't just one productivity problem. Property teams are being pulled in multiple directions, often through
Sep 234 min read
The Case of the Disappearing Property Manager: A Multifamily Mystery
The clues are everywhere: the open position, an overloaded team, resident complaints, and the growing list of “temporary” workarounds. And somewhere along the way, your property manager disappeared! Not literally, of course. But when a property manager leaves or is pulled in so many directions that they can no longer effectively lead, the impact can feel nothing short of mysterious. So, what happened to their time? Let’s investigate. When Property Managers Start Disappearing
Sep 234 min read
Your Property Has a Personality. What's Its Myers-Briggs Type?
You may not know this, but every property has a personality. Some properties are social butterflies. Others are quiet and low-key. Some thrive on structure and schedules, while others seem to operate on instinct, caffeine, and a little bit of chaos. So which personality is your property? While Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) was designed to describe individual personality preferences—not buildings—we can have a little fun applying the framework to property management. Mo
Sep 174 min read
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