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• Five Tips for Affordable Owners on How to Choose Property Management Software

  Affordable housing owners looking to purchase property management software face many different and difficult choices. Here are five tips that every affordable housing manager should keep in mind when assessing the market.

   
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  Job-Costing With Quicken

  Pushing this inexpensive checkbook program to its limits can give you a simple, streamlined approach to check writing, payroll accounting, and job-costing.

   
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  To the Rescue

  THEY SAY ALL PRESS IS GOOD PRESS.

   

• Five Tips for Affordable Owners on How to Choose Property Management Software

  Affordable housing owners looking to purchase property management software face many different and difficult choices.

   

• Developers Diversify to Stay Recession-Proof

  The Great Recession has already claimed some of the industry’s largest owners and developers—Fairfield Residential, Bethany Group, Lembi, Babcock and Brown, Opus Corp.

   

• Freddie Mac Plans More Emphasis on Multifamily

  In many ways, Freddie Mac’s single-family side often overshadows the multifamily division.

   

• Michael Berman: CWCapital to Grow Platform, Enact 'Whole New Vision'

  It’s been quite a year for Michael Berman.

   

• Centerline Sells Debt Fund Business, Keeps LIHTCOperations

  Centerline Capital Group has sold its real estate debt fund management and commercial mortgage loan special servicing business.

   

• NAHMA Celebrates 20 Years of Leadership

  The National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA) is celebrating its 20th year as a champion of affordable multifamily housing across the nation.

   

• Firm Acquires Credit Suisse’s Tax CreditManagement Business

  Morrison Grove CAPREIT, LLC, has entered into an agreement to acquire the low-income housing tax credit asset management business of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc.

   

• Captive Audience

  The credit crisis has helped transform the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) from a lender of last resort to the hottest ticket in town.

   

• Gauging the 2010 Market

  Several leading affordable housing developers are bracing for a tough year while holding on to expectations that the lowincome housing tax credit (LIHTC) market will improve in 2010.

   
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  Business: Before You Drop Your Prices, Read This

  Before you drop your prices, read this

   
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  Faster, Smaller, and More Connected Than Ever (Subscriber content)

  Four technology trends that will change how you build and remodel.

   

• Business: Is the Lead Carpenter System for You? (Subscriber content)

  Is the lead carpenter system for you?

   

• People

  Andrew I. Crossed has become a partner and executive vice president of Conifer Realty, a Rochester, N.Y.-based aff ordable development and management company operating in a fourstate region.

   

• Survival of the Fittest

  LIKE RIVAL GAS STATIONS ON opposite corners, the price wars between Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae continue to benefit customers, with each agency picking its spots to steal market share from the other.

   

• Treasury Blocks Fannie LIHTC Bid

  The Obama administration has blocked Goldman Sachs' bid to buy a significant amount of low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) from struggling Fannie Mae, according to several sources.

   

• Syndicator Eyes Return to Market

  BOSTON Boston Financial Investment Management is preparing its first low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund since its change from MMA Financial.

   
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  Turning Away from Fannie Mae

  A s affordable housing developers get set to ramp up dormant projects, Fannie Mae's high rates on forward commitments are forcing many to look elsewhere for debt.