Slowing Pains After Growing Pains—Managing the Single Family Downturn
What goes up must come down, right? And for the single family industry in 2023, the coming down looks imminent. After several years of 15–18% annual growth, several forecasts are predicting just single-digit growth for single family housing in 2023.…
Friend or Foe? Build-for-Rent’s Place in the Real Estate Market
Build-for-rent has entered the chat. Well, the term originated in 2010, but it’s a hot topic amongst single family stakeholders at the moment. The concept of build-to-rent has been around for decades, but it’s gained significant momentum in recent years…
A Student Housing Snapshot – Your Spring Breakthrough Before Turn
Recession who? The Student Housing industry is thriving. Good news! While inflation and rising interest rates have modestly slowed down the new development pipeline, student housing rent is healthy and demand just reached a record high at the end of…
Understanding ESG Data – The What, Why, and How
ESG is smart business. AND It transforms the way we do business. For companies to evolve and scale in today’s competitive environment, an ESG (Environmental, Governance, Social) strategy backed by powerful, robust data is a must-have. In the past, a…
Managing Utility Costs in the Shadow of a Recession
Recession. The ugliest game of will they won’t they nobody wants to play. Is it coming? Is it not? Will it be mild or crack the sky? For property owners, it’s a crucial question. The amount of variable expenses, from utility costs…
The Alphabet Soup of ESG
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) is more than just a buzzword in current news circulation. Topics like climate change and social justice likely come to mind when you think of ESG. However, ESG initiatives include much more. More and more companies recognize the…
Bracing for the Holiday Spike: A Shopping Center Snapshot
It’s a mixed shopping bag for shopping center operators, property managers, and retailers this holiday season. While vacancy rates are at a 15-year low and shoppers have returned post-COVID, the ongoing labor crunch resulted in longer wait times on Black Friday, and many retailers…
Scaling Mid-Tier Firms While Utility Providers Buckle
Talk to anyone–literally anyone–whose job it is to keep properties warm, lit, and connected to running water right now, and they’ll sigh. The major labor shortages seen throughout Q1 and Q2 of 2022 hit utility providers hard, and the result…
Meter Management: The Great Manufactured Housing Thorn
Every real estate market has its own set of utility thorns—a persistent group of struggles that tend to dig deep, latch on, and find every possible way to disrupt utility services and gouge property management budgets. And in the mobile…
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The 8 Climate Hazards Multifamily Investors Should Be Screening For
Some hazards create gradual operational pressure. Others introduce the potential for sudden, high-impact loss events. Some are widespread across nearly every region. Others are highly concentrated geographically but carry larger financial consequences when they occur. Understanding those differences is critical when screening portfolios. Because not all climate hazards carry the same implications for multifamily performance.
Vacant Cost Recovery (VCR): The Complete 2026 Guide
Under the right circumstances, pressure creates diamonds. In multifamily housing, today’s operating pressure may have the right circumstances for a similar transformation. Rising utility costs, tighter margins, and increased regulatory scrutiny are pushing property managers to uncover efficiencies they may…
New Rules. Same Old Trash. Ask an Expert with Tedd Schonsheck
Meet Tedd Schonsheck: Waste strategist. Former Army officer. Recovering retail executive. Now, he’s one of the people dedicated to making sure trash actually works for property owners and managers.
Climate Risk Is Now a Portfolio Allocation Question, Not a Reporting Exercise
A practical framework for screening climate risk in multifamily portfolios and identifying market and asset hotspots.
Keep the Heat On: Utility Assistance Resources for Property Teams This Winter
Record-breaking cold across the East is driving heating costs higher and putting pressure on residents and property teams alike.. Meanwhile, in our headquarters in Utah, we’re still scanning the mountains for snow (we’re not bitter). But across the country, winter…
Exploring the YoY Energy Price Hikes
Why Doing Everything Right Still Costs More First the lightning. Then the thunderclap. Right? The lightning. Over the last 18 months, AI, in all of its many and emerging forms, roared across the U.S. And while cultural and enterprise hesitance…
Onboard Is Now Conservice Internet Management
Since 2017, Onboard has been singularly focused on transforming how internet is delivered, supported, and monetized in the real estate industry. We’ve built a platform that simplifies bulk and non-bulk internet programs for owners, enhances the resident experience, and drives…
Senior Living Runs on Care (and Careful Utility Management)
Senior living operations exist for one main reason: to support residents. Every role, every process, and every decision ultimately serves people, not just systems. That focus is what makes the industry unique. And it’s also what makes operational strain show up more quickly when something falls out of balance.
The NOI Drain You Can’t See: How Utility Billing Errors Quietly Undermine Portfolio Performance
Identify and recover hidden utility billing errors that quietly drain NOI. Learn how a utility bill audit, automation, and expert review improve budget accuracy across multifamily and commercial portfolios.
Mid-Lease Enrollments: You’ve Signed a Bulk Internet Contract—Now What?
Signing an internet management contract is a big step forward. You’ve secured better pricing, guaranteed service levels, and one of the most in-demand amenities for your residents. But once the ink is dry, the real work begins: getting residents enrolled.
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