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How to become a geeky apartment shopper

Posted by bsitko - Mar 11, 2013

It certainly isn’t your grandmother’s apartment search experience anymore. Not even close. You can imagine how the process used to be. Cup of freshly brewed coffee, a donut, the Sunday…

Claimed Google Local listings bug. Are your claimed listings affected?

Posted by bsitko - Feb 1, 2013

Google Places is the quickest way to gain exposure for your properties in the Google search engine. It’s free and if you want to edit these free listings, all you…

What’s your rental experience like?

Posted by bsitko - Dec 5, 2012

Like a lot of other nerds, I watched the release of the new Microsoft Surface tablet with much interest. Being touted as an iPad killer, there was much hype behind…

Email lead exhaustion: Do we really need them all?

Posted by bsitko - Aug 22, 2012

3% of anything isn’t much. If you handed me a pizza, and only let me have 3% of it, I’d be upset and still hungry. If I only allowed you…

Property Management system crisis: Why you probably want to switch and why you can’t.

Posted by bsitko - Aug 14, 2012

Our Property Management system’s iterations look like DOS and Outlook 97’s love child. It’s ugly. It’s loaded with features that are cumbersome and counter intuitive. The accountants, of course, love…

How life can knock you down and how to get back up

Posted by bsitko - Aug 8, 2012

I hope you’ll forgive me while I lament a little. I’ve just climbed out of the roughest 4 weeks I’ve had in my life. They have caused me to look…

Information freedom: why you should smash those corporate silos

Posted by bsitko - Jul 13, 2012

Let me tell you a sad story. The story begins in a meeting room, where a group of people are sitting around and chatting about a document. In its current…

What the acquisition of Satisfacts means for ApartmentRatings.com

Posted by bsitko - Jul 9, 2012

Just before Wade Hewitt, Vice President of Apartmentratings.com spoke at the Apartment Internet Marketing Conference back in April, I was the guy in the back of the room, holding a…

6 things you shouldn’t be doing with your work email.

Posted by bsitko - Jul 5, 2012

The notification, the popup, the vibration, the phone call telling you they sent you one; these are the many ways we get our emails today. And yet, given how ubiquitous…

Bill & Peggyâ€™s Excellent Social Adventure

Posted by bsitko - Jul 2, 2012

This is a combo post written by Bill Szczytko and Peggy Hale: We weren’t fortunate enough to travel to Boston for NAA this year. Honestly, watching our Facebook friends post…

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