Sunshine, Smooth Sailing, and…Stress?

Have you ever known someone who is just successful and happy in everything they do? You watch them sail through life as if they don’t have a care in the world, and yet they manage to land the big jobs, move up the corporate ladder effortlessly, and greet each day with a smile on their face.

Gamify Your Workday

Bringing Games into the workplace can create positive, competitive fun that will invigorate team members of all ages. Take a quick poll of your community site teams and find out how many have played a video game of some sort in the past 30 days. Whether it is Words with Friends, Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or online arcade games, chances are that nearly all of your team members have engaged in gaming of some type recently. Why is that? Because it is fun! 

Leap Year Logic

2012 is a leap year, and with that comes the always mystical, often underutilized leap day. The leap day: 24 hours that just materialize out of thin air…miraculous! 

 Ok, so it isn’t actually miraculous. It takes 365 days and 6 hours for our planet to rotate around the sun. The leap year was created to keep our calendar in sync with the planet’s rotation. Despite the scientific explanation, it’s understandable that an event that occurs only once every four years will feel special, even magical. After all, even someone who lives 100 years will only see 25 leap days!  

Tick Tock, Look Back Before Looking Forward

Prior to calendars like the Gregorian or Julian, the seasons and equinoxes marked time. Time was more of a rolling event, without clear boundaries from one year to the next. Thanks to the structure of our calendar, we have an obvious beginning of each year on January 1st and an obvious end on December 31st. 

Five More Tips for Regional Managers

We did a post a while back entitled the Top Five Tips for Regional Managers (http://blog.gracehill.com/ghexchange/2010/11/top-five-tips-for-regional-managers.html).  It went over well, and it is time to follow up with another five helpful ideas for the road warriors of our industry, those Regional and District Managers.

Trial by Fire

Multifamily professionals are like those in any other industry—time and experience are required for true expertise. Regardless of position or aspiration, experience is second to none when it comes to just “getting it.” The more you work, the better you get at your job. It’s as simple as that.

Hotter Than Hades Property Walks

Most of the country is suffering under mother nature's wrath of oppressive heat and we'd all rather be sitting in the comfort of our well maintained air conditioned offices, but you mustn't do it.  Get up, get out there.

Helping residents save by adding amenities and events

Summer is in full swing and unfortunately so is the rise of food and gas prices.  Your residents are going to be feeling the pinch like everyone else in the country. One of the ways you can help them, is to provide some money saving opportunities they may have capitalized on if they were a homeowner.

Grace Hill OnAir with Kara Rice Episode Two

This episode of Grace Hill OnAir features Kara Rice speaking with Doug Miller, founder of Satisfacts, about a fascinating study he is spearheading called Inside the Head of Today's Online Renter -- Behaviors, Preferences and Implications.

Putting checks in place is a good thing, isn’t it?

Ever make a mistake? Ever just do a poor job? Ever completely go crazy and mess something up to the point that you don’t remember what you were doing in the first place? Everyone has errors.