As budget season looms over us and we're all making plans for how we'll stay motivated, maintain fun with our teams and just how many candy bars and stress balls will it take to survive- I want to throw a suggestion into the ring.Instead of creating a property or portfolio budget based on "because of" situations, create your budget "in order to" achieve set goals and and growth expectations.  I know everyone read that and ...

 Safety in your home - whether it's a single-family, apartment or dorm. This issue hit home for me in the past week as one of my children attends UNC where there was an active shooter. I spent two hours on the phone with my brave little person as we walked through all of the preventative measures she has literally spent a childhood training for. She knew what to do, how to do it and how to judge it's effectiveness. After the initial trau ...

With almost two decades on the property management side of multifamily, I recently switched positions and became an Asset Manager for a multifamily ownership group.  This shift came to the table with a strong level of self-awareness and a consistent inner (and a sometimes outer and audible) mantra of "Don't be that owner!"  While it's easy to research everyone's opinion on what makes a good property ma ...