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Automate your apartment with WeMo
If you’ve ever thought it would be sweet to have a fully automated apartment, where you could control your appliances and devices with just a click or two of a button, such a future may have arrived. For $49.95, an innovative gadget called WeMo, which comes to us from the innovative minds at Belkin. They’ve [...]
apartment search \ Bike Score \ Green Living \ Walk Score
Walk Score introduces a new urban ranking service – Bike Score
Chances are, you have an idea how your neighborhood scores in Walk Score ranking results. Now, you can check out how bikeable it is. Walk Score ranks neighborhoods based on ease of access to shops, recreational amenities, public transportation, safety and other factors that are important to frequent pedestrians. Starting with select targeted communities, Bike [...]
Apartment \ Renting \ San Francisco \ Seattle \ Washington DC
Thinking of moving? Great cities just for you
If you’re an apartment renter, you’ve already committed to the apartment rental lifestyle and the conveniences it brings. You probably don’t plan to give it up for the anxiety and chaos of home ownership anytime soon. But you might consider moving – and there are many great cities across the country with excellent opportunity knocking, [...]
Chicago apartments \ Chicago neighborhoods
What do you want to change about your Chicago neighborhood?
If you have ever complained about lack of a specific store, restaurant or business in your Chicago neighborhood, you are not alone. Seems like its common for us to bemoan lack of a particular service or amenity in our Windy City neighborhoods. We checked out the wishes that residents have for their city on Neighborland.com, [...]
housewarming gifts \ Housewarming party
Worst housewarming gifts of all time
Whatever you do, don’t give these gifts to your friends for their next new apartment housewarming party. They might just hate you for life. Doormat with obnoxious greeting – Doormats are necessary, but doormats with lame/cheesy sayings are just stupid. If you give this to your friend, they will be faced with a hard decision [...]
Hollywood \ Los Angeles \ North Hollywood \ West Hollywood \ West Hollywood California
Introducing The Hollywoods
If you move to Los Angeles from anywhere else, one of the first things you learn is that Hollywood isn’t just one place. Tinseltown might seem like it should be centralized in the vicinity of the iconic Hollywood Sign, but it’s really spread out in a number of neighborhoods on the northeast side of downtown [...]
apartment renting \ San Francisco
Do you need help with your apartment rental search?
If you have extra cash to burn and want to take all of the legwork out of your quest for a new San Francisco apartment, here’s one way to do it: hire somebody to do your searching and applying for you. As a new service sector, this is in the category of boutique personal assistant-style [...]
Apartment \ Phoenix Arizona \ Real estate \ Renting
Phoenix’ 2013 rental real estate forecast
2012 was a good year to be a Phoenix apartment renter. There were bargain deals to be had, selection of units was plentiful around the Valley, and property managers were motivated to make you happy. In 2013, expect things to shift a bit. With the real estate market continuing to improve, it will be a [...]
The in-unit washer dryer is no longer too good to be true
It used to be that if you wanted to have a washer-dryer in your apartment unit, you were going to have to rent a home or condo rather than a more convenient, inexpensive apartment. Thank goodness, those days are over. An apartment with an in-unit washer dryer was the kind of thing you heard about [...]
Do apartment communities still need business centers?
A fairly common amenity offered in apartment communities around the country for the last decade-plus has been the business center. Ranging in scope from a single desktop computer with hard-wired internet access to a row of high-powered laptops with printer, scanner and wi-fi, the business center’s intent was to facilitate the technological needs of renters, [...]
Things to look forward to this year in San Francisco
Get ready, San Francisco. 2013 is going to be a very big year. There are going to be all kinds of exciting events happening here in the next 12 months, so get ready to enjoy your home city as you never have before. A few of the highlights: Jan. 24 – Feb. 10 – SF [...]
Chicago apartments \ Chicago Real estate \ renting in Chicago
Renting is still lifestyle of choice for us Chicagoans
Chicago’s renting lifestyle is alive and kicking, as evidenced by the multiple new residential high-rise towers being built around the city. According to a recent report in the Chicago Tribune, there will be 2,600 apartment units added to the city’s housing stock this year, most of them in the category of luxury units. Renters are [...]
Your Super Bowl XLVII Primer
Diffuse the inevitable shout fest between Niner and Ravens fans with this very useful Super Bowl trivia. Here are the things you need to know about this year’s final matchup between the best teams in American football. When: The 2013 Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLVII, will be played on Sunday, February 3, at 6:30 p.m. [...]
Made for TV: Television’s Most Excellent Roommates
Got a great roommate? As good as Seen on TV? Check out this fun infographic showcasing traits of the best roommates to appear on the small screen. Which flavor of TV roommates would you choose for your own life? Infographic by Visual News Tweet
Gold Dust Lounge \ new Gold Dust location \ San Francisco
The Gold Dust lounge will rise again!
Last year we shared the tragic tale of the demise of the longtime local favorite watering hole the Gold Dust Lounge, which was forced out of its former digs on Powell Street after the property was rented by some corporate chain I won’t even bother to name. The good news is that after fighting tooth [...]
Apartment \ Phoenix \ Real estate \ Renting
Phoenix’ 2013 rental real estate forecast
2012 was a good year to be a Phoenix apartment renter. There were bargain deals to be had, selection of units was plentiful around the Valley, and property managers were motivated to make you happy. In 2013, expect things to shift a bit. With the real estate market continuing to improve, it will be a [...]
Five great ideas for your Super Bowl Party this year
Throwing a Super Bowl bash this year? You’ll need more than some chips, salsa and a big flat screen TV to keep your guests entertained. Go big or go home for this year’s party by taking advantage of some of our touchdown-guaranteed entertaining ideas. This year’s Super Bowl is taking place at the Louisiana Superdome [...]
Colin Kaepernick \ Kaepernicking \ San Francisco 49ers
Kaepernicking – no athleticism, skill or tattoos required
I’m not even sure quite where to start with the latest sports trend to follow a football star off of the field and onto our Twitter feeds. But if you follow the San Francisco 49ers even a little bit, then you have doubtless already heard about this thing called #Kaepernicking, which is the move performed [...]
Apartment \ Real estate \ Renting \ San Francisco
Renting in San Francisco, 2013 edition
Welcome to another wildly exciting year of rental real estate in San Francisco. The good news is that some new apartment inventory will be entering the marketplace this year. The bad news is that it will be just as expensive as the existing housing stock, and rental rates overall will likely continue to increase in [...]
Wise words about roommates
Some of the best advice we’ve ever received about roommate living has come from the internet. Got some wise words about your roommate living experiences? Share them in the comments section and they’ll be added to this list. We learned something while looking for these. There aren’t very many good quotes about roommates out there. [...]
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