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…
Utility Rate Audits: Because Assumptions Aren’t a Strategy
Making assumptions about massive amounts of cumulative dollars year-over-year is never a good idea. Yet every year, real estate owners all over the country are making the costly assumption that their utility rates are fair, accurate, and as low as they…
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Utility Theft Detection: Protecting Revenue with Smart Monitoring
What does a case of “utility theft” even look like? A broken meter? A cyber attack? Someone hotwiring an electric panel like it’s some kind of car? Utility theft is a broad term for a simple concept—the loss of recoverable…
The Only 5 Utility Management Companies Worth Considering in 2026
The multifamily utility market has no shortage of providers. But only a handful offer the scale, service depth, technology, or specialization to deserve serious consideration in 2026. Five stand out: Conservice (unashamed plug, but true is true), RealPage, Yardi, Entrata,…
Why Should You Centralize Your Utility Management?
TL;DR Ever hear the saying “you need to get your ducks in a row”? That can be a difficult ask when those ducks are running in different directions, across multiple states. Some are even hiding from you, with a few…
Broadband Summit 2026 Debrief: The Infrastructure of Connectivity
Telecom strategy used to be limited to a few baseline questions: Who is the provider? What speeds do they offer? And are they offering the best rate? That was often the extent of the decision-making process. Walking out of Broadband…
Scaling Senior Living with Justin Brady
Scaling Senior Living with Justin Brady | RSS.com Who manages the utilities at a senior living community? Often, it’s a business manager or bookkeeper who is also juggling resident enrollment, retention, and day-to-day community operations. Lauren Howard sits down with…
Rental Junk Fee Laws in 2026: What Utility Billing Teams Need to Know
TL;DR: Fee transparency law is tightening in 2026, and most of the new rules target disclosure, not the formulas billing teams use to calculate a utility bill-back. This guide breaks down what counts as a junk fee, where disclosure rules…
Conservice’s 2nd Annual 5K Brings Together More Than 500 Participants and Gives Back to Cache Valley
LOGAN, Utah — September 10, 2026 — Conservice celebrated its second annual 5K Fun Run on September 9, bringing employees, families, and community partners together for an afternoon of connection and giving back. More than 550 people registered for this…
The How-to Guide for Reducing CAM Charges and Shared Space Costs
TL;DR When investigating where to reduce CAM charges and multifamily common-area costs, shared utility expenses might be the place to start. A higher bill doesn’t automatically signal waste, so it’s important to compare cost and consumption before deciding where to…
Installing EV Charging Stations: A Guide for Multifamily Property Owners
Have there always been this many electric vehicles on the road? It looks like the silent hum of an EV has become a roar, as Electric vehicles take the United States by storm. With the rise of EVs, comes the…
Policy Watch: Compliance & Building Readiness with Brett Kraus and Michelle Winters
Policy Watch: Compliance & Building Readiness with | RSS.com In this episode of Utility Wisdom, Michelle Winters, Vice President of Sustainability Sales at Conservice, sits down with Brett Kraus, Senior Legal Counsel, and Katie Piel, Sustainability Manager, to break down…
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