Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Dec 3, 2009, 5:57 pm
(photo courtesy of A Natural Sound) It's the first of the month and it's time to pay rent. How do you do it? Do you pay rent with a credit card? Do you have to collect rent from your roommate...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Dec 3, 2009, 12:16 pm
All appropriate figureheads from the government were present in Philadelphia this week for the ribbon cutting ceremony of the Warnock Village, a new green apartment building for low income residents. ...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 5:19 pm
Christina Ambers, a famous hand and foot model, alleges that she and her husband (who was formerly employed as a doorman at the building where Ms. Ambers lives and is now resides with her at that addr...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 8:50 pm
Don't Tread on Me An apartment owner in Oregon has notified residents who have an American flag on their vehicles or apartments must take them down because the flags may be offensive to some pe...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 5:45 pm
... magazine cover from the 70's (fortuitously forwarded by The Apartment Nerd) We are way more than ironically enthused to continue featuring ... Life 2.0. Earlier this week, we presented our...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Oct 28, 2009, 7:30 pm
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. (we'll grant...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 5:56 pm
If someone could help me out with this, it would be much appreciated. About one month ago, on a bright and calm, rather pleasant evening, I decided to stay at home watching movies on account of the ...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Oct 7, 2009, 6:52 pm
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. A...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
The contentious issue of smoking in apartments, which we've covered before, has finally made it to the DrudgeReport. This afternoon we spotted an article about a Dallas family that filed a lawsuit...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Sep 23, 2009, 2:00 pm
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 aca...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Sep 17, 2009, 2:24 pm
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. Cun...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Sep 14, 2009, 12:36 pm
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. Although our site is only ...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Sep 10, 2009, 4:25 pm
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 Occupan...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Sep 8, 2009, 4:01 pm
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...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Sep 1, 2009, 2:16 pm
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. Moving beyond th...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 27, 2009, 6:58 pm
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 communitie...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 25, 2009, 2:42 pm
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 Volum...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 20, 2009, 1:23 pm
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 apar...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 18, 2009, 5:53 pm
Yesterday, an article appeared in the Boston Globe about President Barack Obama's plan to use around $4 billion of economic stimulus money to create new affordable housing nationwide. According to...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 17, 2009, 1:26 pm
Now that Michael Vick is out of jail and has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles, he'll probably want to start looking at Philadelphia apartments. We would like to take this opportunity to offer s...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 14, 2009, 3:36 pm
Wednesday's headline at Multifamily Executive was “Fair Housing Activists Put Multifamily ILSs on Notice." The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) claims that some ILSs are running ads tha...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 7, 2009, 4:57 pm
Earlier this week, we posted about how the continued growth of our company required us to go out and get a penthouse suite of a collocation area for our servers. Today, we are happy to announce two ne...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 5, 2009, 6:12 pm
From the erudite desk of the NMHC come a press release on that organization's most recent Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions (July 2009), which modestly highlights some possible signs...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Aug 4, 2009, 5:00 pm
Last week, MyNewPlace performed what CTO and VP of Engineering Ken Cluff described as ‘open heart surgery' on our site, which involved the delicate task of moving all of our servers to one c...
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Matt D. posted an article on MyNewPlace Blog - Jul 30, 2009, 6:14 pm
This morning, the National Multi-Housing Council sent out its Weekly News Watch, which we thought included some articles that should be of interest to our readers. At the top of the headlines was an...
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