Resident Appreciation Week

It’s a stressful time and your residents deserve a little “me time"! Few things are more relaxing than a long bubble bath or a good long shower. If your community boasts a bathtub amenity - encourage residents to take the time to use it! If your community is more about that shower life, don’t fret, there are awesome some amazing shower tablets that can make a simple shower a spa-like experience. HERE IS YOUR 4-STEP GUIDE TO HOST THIS GRAB-AND-GO EVENT! Purchase these bath bombs or these shower tablets. Decide where you will have them available. Have them in common areas and refill as needed. Leave them on a bar cart outside your office. Hand them to residents as you see them in the office. Use your download graphics...

Residents are an important element to the success of your property. Not only do they provide the income that keep the property running, but how they feel about your property can affect future leases and the longevity of those leases. Whether they are leaving reviews, referring a friend, or letting anyone on social media who will listen know what they think of your property, what they say MATTERS. An appreciated resident usually equals a happy resident, and happy residents lead to more referrals and great publicity for your property. So how can you show your residents you appreciate them? Even if you have no budget, you can always show appreciation! Here are the top 6 ways you can show your residents how important they are to you: 1.Send out birthday cards. Usually relatively inexpensive, birthday cards are a great way to remind your residents...

Thinking of throwing a Resident Appreciation Week at your community? It doesn't have to be costly or too far-fetched from resident events already in your arsenal. At CMC Apartments in Florida, we have hosted an all-portfolio Resident Appreciation Week (or RAW) for the past three years. The following is an snapshot from various properties during CMC RAW 2013. For more photos and ideas, check out #cmcRAW. Do you host a RAW? We'd love to hear about it. Send us a tweet - @CMCapartments In 2013 our leasing and maintenance staff in Gainesville, Winter Park and Lakeland, Florida engaged in cutthroat healthy competition to outshine the other participating CMC communities for our annual CMC Apartments' Resident Appreciation Week - a fun, festive and free lineup of events offered to all residents. Here's a recap of Day 1....

A great, easy and inexpensive way to show appreciation for your residents is to offer a resident candy bar one day during resident appreciation week. Set up a beautifully decorated table with different candy bars, jelly beeans, twizzlers, starbursts for them to fill their goodie bags with. Help them embrace their inner child and show them your thinking of them as a valued resident.

This event that has a community service focus while also serving your residents. This even doesn't require residents to bring anything to the office, and doesn't cost anything for you either! The best part? It serves your local Goodwill or Salvation Army with much needed items. The basic idea is that you will provide large plastic garbage bags in the office for residents to get if needed, they fill them with gently used items from their closet and home (no furniture), they RSVP with their apartment number, and they set their bag(s) outside their door by a certain time on a Saturday morning. The community staff drives through the community going to each RSVP door and picking up their donated items. The team then delivers the bags to a local Goodwill or Salvation Army (or other charity organization) for the residents. This is a...