Nearly One in Four Have Sought a New Home Due to Their Pet
Data from the Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative reveals nearly one in four apartment residents say their pet has been a reason for needing to move. The 24% figure translates to approximately 5.5 million renting households that have been displaced or voluntarily sought a new home as a result of their pet.
Lift the Burden of Package Management from On-Site Teams
Office teams have served as the intermediaries between delivery services and residents, receiving packages on behalf of residents, submitting arrival notifications, and facilitating distribution. It was a time-consuming job, but the emergence of e-commerce has turned the task into a liability.
Industry Trends Report | Week of March 1
This week’s most interesting multifamily storylines include: the impact of Biden’s climate goals on multifamily, stalled adaptive reuse projects, apartment marketing keywords, vaccinating multifamily employees, ruling that CDC eviction moratorium is unconstitutional and the focus of operators on service-oriented amenities.
Making Business Intelligence Intelligent
More than ever, the rental housing industry understands the value of data-driven decisions. The industry has done a commendable job of collecting the data—particularly in the past few years—but still must make headway in quantifying it and converting it to actionable business intelligence (BI).
Industry Trends Report | Week of February 22
The top multifamily storylines this week include: how pandemic adjustments are reshaping the industry, how to create a synergistic company culture, remembering non-pet owners when crafting policies, how boredom in the burbs may help downtown rebound, property managers on the road to getting vaccinated, and why Facebook Pixel is something to care about for marketers.
How Multifamily Pandemic Investments Are Changing the Industry
Like any industry, residential building operators saw their entire work lives change in a matter of weeks at the onset of the pandemic. There were obstacles aplenty. Managers had to adjust to working with smaller property management teams—or in some cases, with teams almost exclusively offsite.
Pet Owners and Non-Pet Owners Agree: Pets Are Part of The Community
The recently unveiled Multifamily Pet Policies and Amenities survey, conducted by PetScreening and J Turner Research and featuring the feedback of nearly 23,000 apartment residents, found that non-pet-owning residents are reasonably agreeable with a community’s pet population.
Creating Synergy: Cultivating a Strong Company Culture
Culture takes on the look and feel of the organization’s leadership. The adage that “everything rises and falls on leadership” is certainly true when it comes to culture. What and whom you represent as a leader is what will organically be born out in your company.
Industry Trends Report | Week of February 15
This week’s top multifamily stories: overlooked pain points of work from home for apartment residents, the year of innovation for multifamily, supplier partners with operations backgrounds, the pending decline of apartment construction in 2021, and why multifamily investors are targeting smaller metros.
Overlooked Pain Points for Residents Working from Home
As more residents have been forced to work from home, their needs have evolved. Residents now require in-home offices, or study nooks and/or socially-distanced workspaces within their communities. While multifamily is beginning to respond to those needs, new construction and retrofit projects aren’t completed overnight.