Posts by Danny Soule
Halloween Fun Facts, from Stephanie Footer
Here are some fun facts about Halloween. HT: Stephanie Footer Halloween is the 2nd largest commercial holiday behind Christmas The states of Illinois, California, New York and Ohio will sell 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkins In 2010, Belleville IL banned trick or treating for kids under the age of 12. Dark and milk chocolates can…
Read More10 Tips For Posting Apartment Craigslist Ads By Justin Coleman
Craigslist is the most consistently effective marketing piece at CLASS. It is a free marketing tool and contains controlled content, which enables the poster to determine which specifics are highlighted about the community. With a goal of obtaining inquiries from your post, you must first find a way to stand out amongst the sea of…
Read MoreHiring Generation Y: IQ vs EQ
Generation Y can be smart and educated. Generation Y can also be emotional and flaky. As hundreds of thousands of Generation Y’ers graduate from college and move into the workforce it is important to identify the traits that can make or break a hire. So here is the big secret… when hiring a Generation Y graduate,…
Read MoreExploring Risk Exposure in Multi-Family Developments.
CLASS is pleased to have guest blogger Chris Player, CIC, of Stevens Hale and Associates provide some much needed insight into different areas of risk exposure in multifamily communities. Thanks for sharing Chris! “Apartment executives face a number of day to day challenges. From real estate market conditions to HR issues to tenant safety concerns; many executives…
Read MoreMulti-Family Site Selection Due Diligence
With the multi-family market remaining red hot, CLASS reached out to Fred Beebe of Thomas & Hutton Engineering Co to provide some insight on Site Selection Due Diligence. Thomas and Hutton has conducted site searches, land plans, and civil engineering for 11,000 apartment units in South Carolina and Georgia for the nation’s leading multi-family developers. Below, Fred discusses some…
Read MoreProactive Apartment Leasing
Are you proactive? One of the things that separate the top business people from the rest of the population is their ability to identify what needs to be done on a project. Most of the nation’s workforce will wait around until they are told what to do. But those top people will walk into a situation, asses…
Read MoreWhat Do Generation Y Renters Want? I’ll Tell You… By Justin Coleman
First off, on behalf of myself and the other 100 million or so individuals in this country that fall into the category “Millennials,” I’d like to say you are welcome to every individual that is involved in the multifamily industry. It is in large part thanks to us “Echo Boomers,” “Generation Next” members,…
Read MoreMarketing Trends of 2012 (Updated) by Justin Coleman
I was looking through some previous blog posts and came across one from last year predicting the Marketing Trends of 2012. Since it was made exactly a year ago I figured it would be neat to see which of these trends and projections have held up over the past 12 months. Additionally, I have…
Read MoreProperty Taxes: The Downside of an Up-Market
One negative impact of the red hot Multifamily market is the increase in property taxes. With class A and B properties frequently trading, tax assessors are provided with ammunition to re-appraise Multifamily properties. In times of low trading and reduced property value, many assessors will only do a property tax assessment every 3 years. However,…
Read MoreHandling a Challenging Assignment
Why does an apartment owner call CLASS? While there are many answers to this question, one common theme surrounds a majority of our assignments. They are difficult. If it was easy our company would not be in business. As many of you have noticed, the degree of difficulty of our assignments may vary. Sometimes we…
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