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More offers good opportunities for rent

1. Give plenty of good local information for your prospective tenants!
2. Make it easier to live in your community with lots of great information!
3. Put a large apartment marketing site (website)!
4. Do you have an interactive Online application!
5. Take advantage of online lead sources and change it to recognize it!
6. Respond quickly and in detail the views!
7. Make sure word of mouth transfers are set up to succeed!
8. Have big signs!
9. Use cable TV or radio to create More sources!
10. Ensure thorough accurate information!
11. Source of employment and services to increase traffic!

Secrets

In life, there's really no secrets.So, rather than closer to the impossible, we want to focus on the possible participation by the, what can we learn to know that you can change can do, and therefore can achieve focus through the study, determination, hard work, Plans and measures.

The multi-family housing industry is complex and evolving. An important strategy is informed to stay. This means joining Your local housing association and interaction with many housing related organizations.

Offer large tenants information

There was a time not long ago Time in the apartment industry, where the key sales was primarily a function of the physical location and visibility. While these attributes are a big advantage even now, the Internet, changing demographics, and changes in consumer habits have changed this paradigm. Now, the Internet creates a new "shield" the very high visibility and convenience views can offer to do anything physical location. A well positioned web presence allows owners, managers and leasing agents to capture the attention of prospects who could never in the past your location or specific property have seen on the web.

Since 2004, leasing Growth prospects start their search on the internet to below 40% to 50% for all tenants. For those interested in jumping from out of town this collection to over 70% 2008.

Completion This is more complicated than a major step web page. Achieving the maximum result requires a coordinated attack on the Internet. This implies a deliberate and methodical use of a site Internet Locator Service (ILS – such as housing Finder), with services such as Craigslist, Google Maps, Google Ads, etc.

An organized approach to managing, addresses the necessary facets can be difficult for most new developments and even portfolio holders as they do not have the resources, skills to invest the staff, or inclination to resources in an effort to institutionalize these concepts and efforts. If complexity was not enough hurdle is the industry by a high staff turnover that undermines the ability for local staff and train corporate employees plagued enough to focus successfully on the question.

The good news is we can and other sources of some or all of the elements necessary for you. You can also reach much of the same with a combination to support other service providers and perhaps relatively small internal staff. Nevertheless, understanding the tools and resources to reach the end is important.

So what are the steps / activities you need to put into effect:

o Create a home dynamite marketing site (AMS)
o Develop a structured plan for ads on Craigslist, Google ads, etc.
o Take a look at all the free information sites (hard, because the list changes constantly) such as White Pages, Super Pages, Google Ads, etc. posted
o Develop and train your employees, immediately on-line contacts.
o Provide a capability to respond, if you are not in the office.
o structured, detailed and on-line friendly reply packets.
o Maintain an online application for collecting interested tenants immediately 7X24.
o Customer Follow Up
o Develop training and personnel techniques to ensure that all the above are consistent regardless of wear or fluctuation performed.

Now we will discuss each of these instruments and activities in detail. AMS

Most home sites are little more than a short Brochure describes the apartment complex. For today's Internet-savvy leasing view this is insufficient.

Besides the basic functions and features into account the views of many needs, if your apartment complex, including access to shopping and entertainment venues, near Government and school facilities, transportation needs, alternative employment opportunities.

Show prospects you are doing a great job. Mentioned products. Spread Products through your website. Do you support allowing this goal with tools they do research, apply to leases, and complete maintenance reports other services. Strengthening these measures will, tenants and employees, the property staff is there to serve the residents.

For this reason the apartment is DYNAMITE marketing site a resource that does not just sell your apartment complex, but the area around it. The very best housing sites are constantly working on the AMS to improve asset that is well over a property brochure.

In the example below shows some of the issues we described. This site offers Information on the town, easily accessible and rental apartment has information that has a register specifically for community information and much more. As a result, often call prospects who have already decided a purchase.

And that's just the beginning, with an AMS established that this type of information offers to keep the Fresh data is critical. Staff review property information or updates on a weekly basis is a factor in the continued success of a AMS.

If you have to consider when building your website a few things:

o Make it clear what you are selling – including bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage On the first page.
o Make sure that the prospects may choose to complete a lease at all times. Do you have your online application front and center to all times.
o label pages clearly.
o Provide clear page title on every page.
o Avoid images or Flash movies (you do not know what it is. Simply let it not be used on your website.)
o Include number of keyword text that is used, use the prospects likely to find, your Apartments.
o The apartments are communities – including many community information including schools, entertainment venues, government centers, shops, Restaurants, employers, directions, and points of interest.

Thus, our AMS and running. Our data is robust and the outlook like what they see when they see it.

How can we ensure that they do?

Locator Internet Services – An Imperfect request

The first important step is to Subscribe to at least one local favorite Internet Locator Service (ILS). We generally subscribe to the service, the best in local home magazine and a strong online service offers. While the costs of these services are more than annoying, by the account of the National Council of apartment buildings and our own experience, they are one of the three Sources leads.

On the subject of ILS to the cost it is a problem with these sources? Yes. But the problem is more with how the Internet works, as the services themselves After Google and other mainstream media as a list of search terms, consumers and business people behave very consistently. The first item in a list gets 3X the result of the 2. and the 2 gets about 2.5 times the results of the third and all thereafter. Which is to say, if you do not have on the first page, no chance as an over 91% of the Consumers make their choice on page 1

ILS tends to show homes with 4 or 5 of your favorite competitors unless you pay for top billing. Unfortunately, the waiting list for the top billing on the ground quite strong. So, as owner, manager and leasing agent (unless we are one of the largest portfolios owners or managers), we must consider strategies to win the top spot is common and that generally means and how does win an AMS Top billing outside the ILS.

The graph above clearly shows how dramatic the effect. 85% of searchers never go over the three first positions, and 91% never go past the first page on a standard Google search. So, to find a way to ILS for an equitable participation viewfinder viewing behavior (not expected soon) the owner, manager or leasing agent about how to be affected more often reach the top.

So are given their short coming of our most important Steps to utilize the full benefit from the provision of service-format high-quality photographs, clear leasing information, full contact information, take the full Suite of capabilities of your selected ILS, to ensure that potential customers the best possible information about your complex have.

Free Info comments 3rd party advertising, and in market efforts on the Internet

Our favorites in this area are:
o Craigslist
o Google Maps
o White Pages or Super Pages

Providing complete information about these sources is a very effective way to detect the presence you can not win by achieving an ILS. On these services, with the right management, you get strong billing and reach a top position, a lot of the time.

While many data suggest out that the ILS community leads the number one source, the facts are strong, that in some markets, these sources can better results for a well-organized homeowners to produce. This may be contradictory. However, the elders said graphics provided on the results of search engines position the whole story.

You see on the ILS Web sites that you come for some time and you're not first, if you have a "sponsored" position. For this reason, the ability to reach a higher ranking views on Craigslist, by GoogleAds or any other source in a disproportionate amount of attention leading to the property.

The moral of the story is to advertise and promote your property wherever you can whenever you can. That is, the entire free info posts and 3rd party bookings They are not paid while ignoring options.

3rd Party

Create affiliate relationships in your market. Times have changed. The Internet is the leading source of rental agreements. Yet we are still products of our community. Managers and leasing agents should:

o Create referral programs local employers, the military and government.
o Seeking positive publicity opportunities with local news agencies.
o can take place flyers with local sources of potential Tenant knocks as:
o Hotels,
o Churches
o Universities
o Create partnerships with schools, fitness centers and other demographically favorable venues. Word of Mouth

Most communities offer referral programs. However, you have to pay a transfer? Have you thought about creating referral channels?

The obvious first step, if you are not in place is to rent a small bonus of some sort, if they bring a new tenant. However, this leaves you hanging only referring to the individual good memory and good will. give you a referral card to your friends makes the physical process and thus significantly improved results.

First, the incentive offer referral card mailing a marketing fee for each successful lease you close from distributed cards or a similar method. This should It is no trouble with the real estate brokerage rules as those paid for the distribution of marketing materials on a contingency basis.

Having established an incentive program, what are candidate points of distribution:

o Local Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
o Churches
o Sporting League
o Hotels
o Housing Offices (Maybe they have a favorite charity) and so on
o taxi cab driver
o Fitness centers

Signage

Well placed attractive permanent and temporary signs to be one of the most effective forms of marketing.

However, as operator, we often just take our property for Signage think. Billboards, signs paid temporary area, drawing on all other properties have a strong impact on leasing results. The good news is You can often use places, characters for free or very low monthly cost.

The Small Business Administration that signs are the least expensive nor the effective form of advertising. Depending on the business signs can change for up to 40% of the traffic. In addition, prominent signs to sell business And promoted.

The keys are:

o visibility,
o Relevance and
o Aesthetic Appeal

To achieve this, a complex Sign that:

o not harmonious environment in
o Should provide a simple design
o Are they big enough to give easily readable
o If tasteful and in line with the property

Apartment operators in general far too little space focus on signage. Your reference should include:

o Name Your company,
o Phone number
o Web site, and
o Key buying factors – bedroom, pool, etc.

For the foreseeable future remains signage and should always remain one of the most important methods of advertising. The best way to check signs with your internet marketing and other marketing approaches is a free and Amplification factor for this prospect generator and an independent leasing special.

E-mail and telephone follow-up

For the time at the end, has Views of rent management. However, the emergence of the internet has this even more important. Now prospects contact by e-mail features and well positioned for the owner with online applications.

Increasingly, consumers want not want to spend their time talking about their new house with a leasing agent. Instead, they want to fully or nearly fully vet visits the home of their choice without a visit or a call.

During 2009, joined dozens of our real estate lease without ever in conversation with the prospect in person or by phone. The entire process was handled online to sign their lease and record with the exception of their keys. We expect even better Results when we in a position to complete the rental agreement online.

At the same time, the immediate response and access of electronic media made tenant nor impatient. A recent presentation by the Housing Association claims that, if an online contact was answered within an hour of successful completion of more was 90%. At the same time, responses in the 2 Hour was expected that more than 80% of the calls fail. The answer is clear. Available and responding to electronic Contacts. The protection of our investments, our commissions and our jobs depend on quick response to the prospect. Now, the need for responsiveness greater than ever.

Some good ways to cover:

o Assign a specific person responsible,
o For a portfolio, were the main office handle the online contact,
o route e-mails to a mobile phone
o Engage a call center to respond,
o To check train staff, these areas hourly.

Unfortunately, most companies are responding ineffective, although all have good intentions. This applies to voice mail and even more so with e-mail and online applications. Further, poorly armed and call center dealing with the issue, as they are not capable of an integrated response with the necessary online services are Applications, online screening and other integrated information and response preparation for consumers. Only a combination of ILS and managed response may actually have to meet. The responsiveness problem is so large that engage some great portfolio holder in fact call centers to improve their responsiveness.

In my opinion, the only effective way to handle this is through a globally administered reactive approach I describe as the lead development and processing.

The convenience factor

Tenants have jobs too! Tenants have lives too! Tenants also have responsibilities! All too often, the attitude of the apartment operators to adapt to the tenant. A good Opportunity to improve marketing success, this attitude of giving up and are in the details of how to live our tenants. The obvious factors to consider:

o tenants and tenant prospects appreciate office hours that allow for their work. Coincidentally, tenants do not have our office bad if they do not there are.
o appreciate tenants that address issues such as payments, maintenance requests, lease requests and come to your office without leasing applications.
o Small amenities can live a big difference in the quality of tenants.
o Good information about the apartment marketing site (website) can navigate in a new community much easier.
o may provide access outside the opening times of telephone support and e-mail improves the quality of life when bad things happen.

As operators, managers, leasing agents and maintenance staff to multi-family houses, one can consider how we can improve the quality of life tenant make a big difference.

Focus will occur on the improvement of comfort and a happy event. Your tenants begin enthusiastic recommendations to their friends, colleagues and neighbors. Rents will rise, and rents will fall.

Structured Answers

We have discussed how critical responding. This is only a beginning. The property or a portfolio staff must seek armed and sharp business as answers. The goal is both surprising difficult and surprisingly easy. E-mail is not simply a matter of a polite answer. Each e-mail is one way:

o Provide detailed Information unit
o Provide details to staff and services
o Provide interesting facts about the area,
o Answer questions about schools, Entertainment, shopping and infrastructure,
o Provide benefits of your property,
o Emphasize support issues with other alternatives, and under the positive factors Their property. o Add directions from several points,
o Provide a polite call to action,
o Develop a relationship with the prospect of them also feel a part of the community,
o Describe upcoming events, local social opportunities and activities on the property, interest in view.

Structure also includes first reaction, follow-up, final closure and post replies. Once your property has e-mail recording available, increasing the complexity of a structured answer, as you must have a plan to communicate regularly in power activities on the property and in the community, while the service continue to have these people trying to lead to genuine and close opportunities to convert.

The key – an online application

Many companies provide a copy of their application in Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) on its website. The sad fact is, making few if any prospective tenants will fill the trouble to print and fax this form of application in the leasing staff.

Our customers who have implemented online application, have a 30X increase in applications over a secure interactive online application seen. Just by chance jumps dramatically to complete and electronically sign an application level results.

Better still offer the online application in English and Spanish (more than 70% of the tenants for the next 10 years will come from minority groups). Access to the web application address, so that you can attach it to response emails, Craigslist ads and other correspondence. The online application will take the lead and close your brave!

The real news is that the further you can view the decision to move to a less interaction with the greater your chance to grab their interest and hold it has to close before a competitor a chance to respond.

Finally, as owners, managers and leasing agents, we should try to Apartment identification to make qualification, sales process and continuously easier and easier for our prospective tenants.

Staff training and standards

Staff training is key to driving leasing activity. Priorities are:

o Call Management
o Your staff must be trained be drilled in the call, getting to know know the prospect of a relationship with the prospect, and the promotion of the characteristics of the property.
o Remember, the conversation about what the view from the hotel and does not want what you want about the property.
o At the same time building enthusiasm for the property that they are the Trust, the right decision rent.
o Visit Management
o The little things count:
o a soda,
o Give a Gift Certificate to a local restaurant,

o Make sure the home office has a feeling that is so attractive. The smell of freshly baked cookies is a winner.
o A clean office and a well maintained property is a must.
o-line and e-mail management
o Please read our notes from before. You have to react quickly or online leads are Dead-end efforts.
o to increase profits structured answers.
o Do you have an interactive online application for your customers.
o Automating as much of the Process as possible.
o Respond politely by telephone, e-mail and in person, be quick, detailed and as expressed in the fixed address of the prospects.
o Respond … Respond … Respond …
o Resident Management
o providing world class service,
o Creation of meaningful activities and social Groups
o Do you know the sights, shops, government agencies and services and field activities,
o provision of responsible and sincere service for all facets of the operation,
o collection of products and help in your marketing materials and
o The development of a strong referral services

Exposure … Exposure … Exposure time

If a property blessed with a site that simply sells itself, is not about marketing, with a or two of the right ideas. An effective plan to drive "over the top" traffic, as you probably already closed, a matter of a coordinated and comprehensive Program of many initiatives in the company. And these initiatives are probably not marketing focused.

The main elements that I recommend at least be included are:

o A great AMS (website), contains many local, property, personnel and service information o At least one very possibly two ILS services
o An interactive online application
o Signage on the property and in other important areas of transport around the property
o A strong company and government outreach program
o A simple and robust referral program
o Managed answer to all online activities

Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Many in our industry to slow down or even play strongly oppose Pay Per Click as an effective marketing tool. The idea is to be noted that Pay-Per-Click a high proportion of traffic / Rent captures panoramas. In fact, Pay-Per-Click is about 45% as effective as organic search. This makes the service about twice as effective as newspaper advertisements at this Point in time. In addition, most new developments do not have the know-how and is not allowed to use their budgets to take that place. This is precisely Pay Per Click in the middle of the most cost-effective alternatives.

From my perspective, the cost in comparison to free units are quite small. However, this requires reaching for most complex internet marketing and service support, manages the internal staff training in general or in a position. The use of this solution requires experienced personnel.

Comparing the sources of traffic

The table below gives a good overview from which one with a sound analytical decision as to how to make your apartment complex market.

A brief overview of our analysis of this data, we generally assume that the larger the owner the more of these elements should be in use. From a cost perspective, we feel at least support the chart and figures involved:

o Internet – Pay Per Click are ILS, AMS, Craigslist and White Pages a few important concepts.
o newspaper – it may make sense depending on the cost, and demographics.
o Apartment Listing Circular – In our experience, these are essential if a little further down the list from a start point perspective.
o recommendations are usually not as a starting point, can but a relatively high percentage of rental property as a close call of the personnel and companies to increase in a market.
o Others are often a specific Function to the dynamics of the property.

As the operator quantifies and compares and contrasts results through metrics is an opportunity and a responsibility.

Some examples from my own experience:

o Craigslist is a lead or to produce two per day in the markets of the 200,000 to 400,000.
o An ILS, can deliver 12-25 leads per month.
o Recommendations include almost 100% of the time when they can meet credit and background requirements.
o Newspaper Yield less qualified traffic and are often relatively ineffective generation of large quantities of leasing services.
o cable ads are often less expensive in markets under 300,000 and generate 3-5 leads per month.
o Radio bound events is effective, but radio ads are generally ineffective.
o All sources are more effective when developed as a coordinated marketing approach.

Curb Appeal

Trump has his billions with a strong focus on Curb Appeal. Well-kept lawns and flower beds can completely change a property. Power washing is an old building appear decades younger.

To really continue to receive in this area:

o Check your competition and take notes about their successes curb appeal.
o Make a wish list of all the changes required to the property.
o Set requires 2 or 3 vendors for each change to offer bids.
o Development plan and schedule that works within the existing cash flow.
o Make sure that the plan follows the rent trends in your area. For example, there is little point in opening a pool in October.

Putting together a coherent plan can result in a sharp increase in traffic and rents.

Understand the demographics and economic factors

Owners, operators and managers are well served to understand the demographics of their local market, and the effect the national demographic trends, or affect their business. This was never more true than today. Let's consider some recent trends show that effective can:

o Unemployment is approaching 10%
o Weaker collections, o potential downward pressure on rents,
o More concern over rent as a function of total income
o savings rate has dramatically has dried up even as consumer loans jumped
o Potential residents are looking for better deals
o downsizing is announced,
o Sharing apartments is very popular
o luxury units suffer more vacancy.
o economists and banks expect prices to rise further
o tenants are looking for ways to seek to stabilize costs.
o According to the Census Bureau 73% of tenants for the next decade, minorities
o tenants tend to have larger families and
o The tenants are probably due to lower average income
o More than half of Hispanic tenants for the next decade / Latino
o The owners and managers need bilingual staff
o Preparation and distribution of promotional material for an oversized Spanish market advantage will fail to respond as other properties.
o 2009 is the culmination of high school year for Echo Boomers bladder to create an additional demand on the rental.
o Baby Boomers are downsizing their home to the highest Set yet:
o Because their children have studied and move forward the opportunity for a scaled-down lifestyle.
o The Great Recession is in billion Market value creating a wealth gap that has long been established trend will intensify as the elderly tenants wiped off.
o emerging markets is pressure on the new building Costs provide a value advantage for older structures.

These facts point to an overlooked problem that is common in the industry. Rental of apartments is not with a fancy office. Rental of apartments is about understanding prospective resident needs, concerns and thinking.

As the chart shows down, take off the time between the election and may be a new opportunity extremely short or very extended. As a leasing agent, it is important trends and their impact on the prospects understand the nature of processing and the decision to sign a new lease.

As owners, managers and leasing agents to the extent that we in this Trends tap, we can create new demand and low vacancy rate on our properties. Examples of approaches to achieve different results are:

o to protect tenants drawing skills in the face of weakening demand high-quality earnings.
o With multiple leases per unit or included, a fixed income solution.
o Hiring Spanish-speaking staff and Spanish to provide marketing materials.
o Develop amenities both a younger audience and older audience appeal.
o Building partnerships with assisted living and nursing homes.
o purchase of older properties, cause to make value recorded by low-cost acquisition of other non-structural hardware.

Managed Internet marketing and online services

Apartment building Operations have not always been a challenge, and the task has become easier with the advent of the Internet. Laboratory scale prevent or virtually impossible the idea of the skills and experience on the staff needed to assemble and maintain a coordinated internet marketing and customer service efforts. As operator, we are confronted with:

o Special pay per click and organic marketing needs
o Special ILS management requires
o Special needs website
o Community information needs
o The need to create and deliver fresh and up to date content for prospective tenants,
o Increasing demands for better prepared information on our website,
o Identification, definition accounts, whereby the advertising and posting ads on various social networks, advertising space and other areas necessary to ensure, and the traffic,
o Managing an online application solution
o And much more

This graph is increasing and Bug can make your operation.

The complexity and demands on these systems appear increasingly not decrease. Given the increasing public demand for better-organized and all information manager, went on sources that can deliver and manage these demands for them to leave at a reasonable price, while it requires a focus on day-to-day make ready units, preservation of its facilities and rental agreements concluded, and the implementation of the operational functions of a dwelling Community demands.

What Now?

We spent a lot of time together pick some good hints about where to go from here. Develop a great website. Keep the content fresh and accurate. Invest in services and support to generate leads you need. Finally, you may have jumped on the train. This work is difficult. This a good job is hard. Employee turnover, training and the breadth of the task can be overwhelming.

Blake Ratcliff (U.S. Naval Graduate Academy & Marine officer, serial startup entrepreneur, managing director / CEO, Multi-family houses and residential investment founder and property manager).

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