This automated time clock can speed payroll, improve job-costing, and help you estimate more accurately.
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For the past few months we've been focusing on planning - but sooner or later you're going to have to build something in order to earn that income you're planning for.
Budgeting for your marketing, sales, and project starts
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Pop Quiz: Q&A With Freddie Mac's Mike May
Apartment Finance Today recently sat down with Freddie Mac's Mike May to get his perspective on the competitive landscape, both against chief rival Fannie Mae and the private sector, as well as the company's plans for 2011.
Take some pain out of the yearly exercise of creating your jobs budget
After a visit from OSHA, a design-build contractor learns how to do things by the book and profit from it.
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Class action suit holds that the "green" project rating system is just a marketing gimmick that harms the interests of non-LEED building performance experts.
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State waranty law sets one-year limit.
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Advertising services isn't looking for work, officials say.
Temporary Fix
THE PAST FEW YEARS haven't been great for apartment owners. Turns out corporate housing companies have had it just as bad.
Here's an effective way to organize and categorize expenses and job-cost data and compare the results with your forecasts.
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Michael Berman: CWCapital to Grow Platform, Enact 'Whole New Vision'
In a wide-ranging interview, Michael Berman, president and CEO of CWCapital, discusses his company's acquisition by Fortress Investment Group, the state of the multifamily market, and his work in helping to shape our nation's future housing finance system as chairman-elect of the Mortgage Bankers...
If time is money, how can I control the clock?
Unlearning bad habits picked up during the boom years is the first step to recovery.
Table-saw lawsuit rattles power-tool industry; NAHB challenges EPA over removal of opt-out provision in lead law; more
Jacks of All Trades
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, many multifamily CFOs added a new, albeit unfortunate, bullet point to their resumes: “loan workout specialist.” Some could probably also add: “crisis management expert.
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Capture Rate
TO PARAPHRASE AN OLD QUESTION: If prospective residents call and nobody hears them, do they still make a sound?
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Multifamily Developers Make Moves to Round Out Their Business Models
Throughout the recession, many multifamily builders diversified to survive, positioning themselves for long-term stability.
Take a look at your “break-even volume,” which is the bare-minimum volume of work that you need to complete (and get paid for) in order to keep your doors open.