A recent article appeared in units Magazine, the National Apartment Association’s trade publication highlighting the Laramar Group’s Pricing Manager Patty Garver. Garver is the corporate executive overseeing rental pricing on the 30,000-unit, 20-market portfolio.
According to units, each week, Garver calls and incorporates community managers on pricing decisions by confirming the accuracy of the program data [...]
Category Archives: Presentations
Laramar’s Patty Garver – Leading by Facilitating
Marketing and Revenue Management from a Lodging Perspective
Multifamily operators benefit from the experiences of revenue management users in other industries. Lodging, in particular, is a similar enough business that both the parallels and the differences are readily obvious, and don’t take away from gaining deeper insights into a statistical approach to pricing and demand management.
Below are selected videos taken from a presentation [...]
Does RM Work? AMLI Case Study - 5 Short Videos
In a previous post, we gave a short summary of some highlights from Steve Small’s presentation on yield optimization to the April 2008 Apartment Internet Marketing Conference. Steve is an Executive Vice President at AMLI Residential. Steve and AMLI were among the early pioneers (and beneficiaries) of revenue management in the apartment industry. Below are [...]
Wall Street Perspective on Revenue Management
Rich Anderson, Senior Equity Analyst at BMO Capital Markets once sarcastically asked Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo if Camden execs kneeled and bowed to the revenue management terminal each morning. (Don’t take our word for it, the exact exchange is quoted below.)
Since then, Anderson hasn’t lost his humorous edge, but he has come around [...]



