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    A retrospective on 25 years of builder technology: How did we get here, and where are we going next?

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    The effort to spread high technology throughout the multifamily industry has led to a number of recent team-ups and acquisitions of companies as well as new products and services that seek to take advantage of the increasing use of the Internet as the bac