Was one of your New Year’s resolutions to spend less time stressed out and more time on things you enjoy? If so, you’re like many others! Some of the top ten New Year’s resolutions include spending more time with family and friends, fitting in fitness, learning something new and getting organized. What is the common denominator in those resolutions? You need more time!

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Apartments.com is proud to be featured in Multifamily Executive’s Year Round-Up: 10 Most Popular Articles of 2012.

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Just in time for the holidays, Dick Burke, the GM and SVP of Apartments.com, surprised a family facing hard times, including nowhere to live, with free rent for a year on The Ricki Lake Show. Watch now to see the family’s reaction to receiving this great news in this heart-warming segment.  Also, stay tuned for the results of the Apartments.com Raising Awareness. Taking Action. A Campaign to Help End Homelessness later this month.
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Apartments.com named Dan Bakst, of Tampa, FL, the 2012 Roommate of the Year! As the Grand Prize winner, Dan is walking away with Free Rent for a Year plus $10,000. Besting video entries submitted from coast to coast, Dan proved he was in tune with what it takes to be the Roommate of the Year in his soulful music video entitled The All-Star Roommate Musical. Watch Dan’s reaction on learning he has been crowned the 4^th annual Roommate of the Year by Apartments.com.

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Christmas trees date back to the 1500s and these days, many people don’t feel their holiday decor is complete without one. From Frasier Firs to fake trees, check out this great infographic, The Christmas Tree Deconstructed, from our friends at Ubersignal to learn more about the lush history of the Christmas tree!

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Without fail, tradition and family are two words that always come to mind when thinking about the holiday season. Home, on the other hand, may not be one of the first words that you think of. While gifts are certainly memorable, the most unforgettable experiences come from within the friendly confines of one’s home. Stories, laughter and food are all shared and the cozy environment is what really makes the holiday time special.

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From everyone at Apartments.com, we’d like to wish you a happy holiday season. To thank you for your readership throughout the year, we are providing everyone with a complimentary MyMedia flyer! This MyMedia Holiday Hours flyer lets your residents know that the leasing office will be closed Christmas Day. We’re offering two options: One flyer states that the leasing office will close early Christmas Eve and will be closed Christmas Day. The second option states that the leasing office may close early Christmas Eve, giving you and your leasing agents some flexibility, and will be closed Christmas Day.

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When looking to put an apartment on the market, leasing agents have a responsibility to make the property presentable before potential renters start to view it. Exercising best practices when preparing an apartment for renters will increase the chances of grabbing the eye of a buyer quickly, avoiding long waits on the market that could result in months of lost revenue. Agents and landlords should consider many details and aspects of an apartment when staging it for viewings, such as interior fixtures and floorplan layouts.

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I had the opportunity to attend one of the best search engine conferences of the year: SES Chicago. The conference runs the first week of November and brings together the top minds in the Midwest and abroad. I should mention that SES is a well-known, traveling conference that builds incredible momentum as the year goes on – and Chicago happens to be one of the last stops. This means a wealth of knowledge is collected by way of speakers and social media coverage that comes to a boiling point in the Windy City.

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As competition for apartments increase along with rents, apartment shoppers need to be even more informed and savvy. They must understand the different market rates of apartments located in the areas they want to live in order to be able to identify realistic housing options during their search.

At Apartments.com, we wanted to find out if our users have a firm grasp on the actual cost of rent, or if their rent perceptions needed to be put in check. To find out, we compared the average cost of rent our visitors were using to search for a one bedroom apartment on Apartments.com to the actual rent being advertised. The results revealed a significant gap between how much apartment hunters think rent costs and reality. Here are some of the findings: Read More