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Category: Tenant Experience

  • Building Engines Welcomes New Clients Like Silver

    Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold. Obnoxiously sticky as the tune may be, the simple lesson of valuing both old and new partners bears weight. Maybe the message isn’t profound, but our appreciation for the lifeblood of our company is.

  • Funny Friday: Heaven & Hell – Property Management Style

    There are always property managers who are more concerned with attracting tenants than retaining them. The only good thing that comes out of that is some fodder for real estate jokes. We found this one from Kensington Realty Advisors devilishly funny:

  • LEED The Way: How to get your organization’s support for LEED EB

    You’re ready to lower operating costs and increase the value of your building. You feel the need, the need for LEED. Now, how do you get buy-in from your team? Here are the steps to build support for LEED Existing Buildings within your organization:

  • Saving More than Daylight: Tips to Conserving Energy

    We all had to “fall back” this past weekend (unless you’re one of the lucky ones in Hawaii), but we don’t need to fall back on our old lighting habits. With the end of Daylight Savings Time, comes the end of low electricity bills. Short days mean a long ways to go for your facility’s…

  • How Does Your Property Stack Up?

    Maybe you’re better than others. Do you know it and how can you show it? Maybe you’ve some catch-up to do in key operational areas. Do you know where and how you should improve? Get off the bench and get on the benchmarking track! Being a competitive player in CRE demands a comparative analysis of…

  • Echo-Boomers’ Booming Impact on Rental

    Property managers must be echo-friendly if they hope to survive in the rental market. According to a recent GlobeSt.com article (whose inspiration and information derives from a panel at the RealShare Apartments Conference in LA), the youngest generation of renters are posed to set standards in the market.

  • Separating the Sheep from the Goats: Mesker Park Zoo

    One of the latest clients to incorporate Building Engines into their daily routine is the Mesker Park Zoo, located in Evansville, Indiana. Typically when people think of Building Engines, they think of assembling car parts. And then they think of a commercial property management tool. This is because amateur auto mechanics are very prevalent. And…

  • Funny Friday: My BlackBerry Is Not Working!

    Difficulties with BlackBerries have left many frazzled recently, but these Brits turn technology gaffes into laughs. Watch this “fruity” sketch from BBC show “The One Ronnie” where Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield are sure to “produce” some smiles.

  • Tenant Bill of Rights

    In line with our constant pursuit of CRE Best Practices, we have to commend BEI client Kurt Padavano, COO of Advance Realty, for his “Tenants’ Bill of Rights.”

  • Back in BlackBerry: All Service Restored

    As a followup to the previous post on the BlackBerry outage, I’m here to bear good news to all CrackBerry addicts. Your fix is in: service has been fully restored globally. However, it may be slow as the system recovers.