Top Rated Events

This event would be hosted by your maintenance team as a way of getting to know your residents a little better. Simply have a mix and mingle with your maintenance team. You can have this event in your community center, in your pool area, or anywhere where you can serve drinks and finger foods. Have your maintenance team all attend so that the residents can have an opportunity to talk to them, ask them questions, and have a booth set up to take any service requests. You maintenance team is the glue that holds your community together and helps keep everything running smoothing, your residents need to know them! Customize this event to your community and its culture. Do they participate more when there are games and activities? Food is always a big draw. Hopefully you will open up...

Offer your residents an opportunity to stretch their budget and recycle old Halloween costumes through a costume exchange party. This event is perfect for residents of all ages and will provide a unique pre-Halloween event that won’t conflict with their already scheduled Halloween parties.  

Today's activity is actually pretty easy, and frankly, it is just a way for us to show off an amazing idea we found recently! Drawing contests are always fun with the kids at a community because everybody can participate no matter the age and skill level. Plus, it's a cheap option with just some markers, colors, etc. Now, having the drawing be a "contest" can be a bit tricky, because you never want to make the kids feel like they did a bad job, so be careful that you navigate that part carefully. That said, we have found probably the best prize we have ever seen for a drawing contest: You can now have one of the drawings be made into a stuffed animal! We stumbled across this absolutely brilliant website that creates custom stuffed animals based upon the children's drawings! ...

Have you ever played Jenga? Have you ever played JUMBO JENGA? I saw a giant jenga set recently and thought about how cool it would be to have one (or more) of those in a community for tournament play! I would set it up like any other bracket tournament and have groups of four play each other on regular sized Jenga games. Winners from each group will get to play on the big Jenga set for the finale. Those giant sets can get a little expensive but if you know someone who is pretty good with woodworking, they wouldn't be too hard to make. Picture credit to Mary Brennann http://www.flickr.com/photos/perogiemary/

Turn your clubhouse into a temporary art gallery by reaching out to local art schools and putting on your own art show! This is both a resident event and a community outreach program, as you can advertise the event on Craigslist and with local businesses. Also, encourage the artists to have their friends and family come out to the property to support them, which then creates awareness opportunities for the community! As an added resident bonus, make the pricing two tiered – one price for the general public, and a lower price for residents. Even if a resident doesn’t buy a piece, they will appreciate that there was special pricing just for them! (This is really both a resident event and apartment marketing opportunity, but since most of our events are focused on residents, we decided to put this in...