Latest Apartment Party Ideas

Roll out the red carpet and pop the popcorn for a funfilled night of movie extravaganza! Decorating: In the community room you decorate with movie posters, have a red carpet outside leading up to the community building, rent the large sky lights to highlight the event, and hang a banner above the door announcing your "Movie Event". Fun and Games: Pass out ballots for residents to vote for their winner in each category. The resident with the most correct answers wins a prize. Gold awards are available at party stores. Have residents dress as their favorite movie star. Plat charades trying to guess movie titles. Food: Champagne, finger food, star shaped cookies, sandwiches, etc. popcorn

For Valentine's Day, show your residents how much you love them. Download some of the greatest and latest love songs and for about $1/unit, you can make a CD to give to your residents. Include the oldiest but goodies, and come up with a cute tagline related to your community name for the CD cover or disk. I just called a local company who had the CDs completed in a few days. We put We "heart" Our Residents and the community name on the disk, and made up a cute display for the jewel case.

Each year as tax season approaches we gather up a few supplies. Pens, pencils, notepads, post-it notes, etc...all with our community logo on them of course. We also put together some nice snack food items like 100 calorie snacks, power bars, candy, water etc... We begin visiting all the local Tax Offices in the area and take them these little survival kits and even deliver them pizza once a month, or a cookie bouquet or edible fruit arrangement. In exchange we ask that they display our community flyer on their desk along with our business cards sitting in front of them. We also share their information with our residents in our business center and move-in packets.

One of our Community Teams is showing Despicable Me for their weekly movie. I just had to share her adorable and creative Twinkie Minions that will be the snack for the movie. Here is her description of how to decorate: "I used one tub with blue food coloring. I used chocolate for the dark and just white vanilla for the eyes. I put it in baggies with the corners cut off like a pastry bag. Super easy!!!" What have been your favorite movie snacks or most popular showings?

We had a different event each day for the residents one week out of the year. All though we make sure they feel special all year long. Day 1 - Breakfast on the Go with a bag w/ juice, Otis Spunkmeyer Muffin and the morning paper...of course we slipped in the bag a note about our Resident Referral Program too Day 2 - Pizza at The Mail Center - As they came home to check their mail we had Free Single Serving Pizzas delivered by a local Pizza Restaurant that we Cross Marketed with Day 3 - We set up a car wash station and washed their cars as they came home (We had a car wash on site) Day 4 - We had a local Spa offer manicures and massages in our office for free (We cross marketed with this Spa so this was Free for the 4...