Enlist renters’ help for simple laundry maintenance tasks
For apartment buildings with onsite laundry facilities, regular preventative maintenance is an effective way to maximize laundry equipment performance and longevity. Fortunately, there are some preventative maintenance tasks that are easy enough to pass along to renters using the laundry facility and potentially save labour expenses for the building owner. Educating tenants on proper operation and care with highly visible signage can help maintain the equipment’s efficiency. Since the option of an onsite laundry facility is a huge benefit to renters, they will likely be willing to help ensure equipment is properly cared for on a routine basis. Below are some simple maintenance task suggestions for laundry room signage.

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The air we breathe
Canadians typically spend up to 90 per cent of their time indoors, which highlights the need for healthy indoor air. While everyone's health can be affected by indoor air quality problems, it can have a greater affect on someone living with a lung disease. Building managers and residents can work together to employ simple actions that will help to improve the air that they breathe.

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What Makes Borrowers Tick (And What Ticks Them Off)
Property owners in the multi-residential industry often rely on funding to facilitate growth. Like every industry, they have options with whom they choose to do business.

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Balancing labour costs and tenant satisfaction
After property taxes and utilities, employee costs are usually a landlord’s largest costs, and so controlling that cost is important. However, before thinking that offering the lowest wages you can get away with is a good idea, remember that employee satisfaction and stability has a direct impact on resident satisfaction and keeping that high is also important. As a result, determining employee compensation requires fine judgment. 

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Ontario tenants who smoke: what the law says
Smoking in multi-residential buildings engages hotly contested policy issues. 

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Dog poo: nuisance and health hazard
From Albuquerque to Miami, from Palm Springs to Baltimore, the debate over what to do about dog poo continues to rage in the U.S. Lawsuits and local community legislation are all manifestations of the problem of owners not picking up after their pets and the problem continues to grow throughout the country.

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Better communication for better tenants
When 31-year-old Jessica Durston moved from Vancouver to Toronto last year, she rented a one-bedroom loft near trendy Trinity-Bellwoods, hoping to settle into a vibrant, creative community.

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Transforming a property from the perspective of a property manager
As a property manager, my job is to maximize return on investment while meeting the owner’s objectives. As a property manager in a priority neighbourhood, this means changing the face of a complex by re-claiming it entirely.

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