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You Get What You Pay For: The Other Side of a “Poor Man’s” RevMan

By Joe Bousquin | May 17, 2011

Editor’s note: Our recent article on VaultWare’s Market Comp’s offering, which the company is proferring as a “poor man’s RevMan solution elicited some interesting response from our readers. Chief among them was MF RevMan guru Donald Davidoff, who’s been plying the apartment pricing trade for as long as anyone. He sent us the following comments. [...]

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Taking Stock: Firms Using RM

By Joe Bousquin | April 5, 2011

The following represents what we believe to be the most comprehensive accounting of multifamily firms using revenue management ever compiled. Not all of these firms are at the same point in the adoption curve. Some are multi-year veterans who long-ago rolled RevMan out to their entire portfolio. Others may still be in pilots, with just one or two properties [...]

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The MFR.com Interview: Waterton Residential’s Barney Pullam

By Joe Bousquin | March 22, 2011

With the spring lease up season upon us, MFR.com was lucky enough to huddle with Waterton Residential’s Barney Pullam. With 15,000 units in markets from Washington, D.C. to Southern California, and the core of his portfolio in Chicago, he’s got a balanced, diversified view on what’s happening with rents now, and how revenue management tools [...]

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What Double Dip? Colonial Pushes Richmond Rents 14 Percent.

By Joe Bousquin | July 23, 2010

Worried about raising your rents in the face of that “double-dip” recession that’s lurking around the corner? Don’t tell that to the executive team at Colonial Properties Trust. In a 2Q 2010 conference call that provided plenty of nuggets for apartment pricing professionals to chew on, the company reported that it pushed collective rents by [...]

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