It’s a tough market, and if you don’t GET IT, someone else will.

Someone else can beat you to the market place, get prospects, lease-up their apartments, attract and train the best talent. Don’t let that happen.

There’s alot at stake NOT to GET IT.

Don’t Get it? RENT SODA! GET IT!

We specialize in assisting small to medium apartment owners & developers. We are the department(s) you wished you had. We offer the top notch talent and experience you need for your most important projects. We can supplement your departments where you need additional help, but don’t have enough work to warrant adding additional staff. We can bring in fresh new ideas, bridge the gap between today and the future, help you operate like the big guys – without the big overhead.

Are you a small to medium apartment management company or owner who’s never had to aggressively market your apartments, but find yourself scrambling to meet your occupancy goals? Need some apartment marketing help? Need a apartment marketing budget? Need an apartment lease-up marketing budget? Need to understand craigslist/facebook/IL’s as it pertains to marketing your apartments? RENT SODA offers apartment marketing consulting services!

Do you have standard policies or procedures for your sites? Need recommendations on how to “clone” your best employees and get rid of the bad habits? Do you need team building? Need apartment safety manuals? How about best practices? RENT SODA offers business & operations consulting to apartment owners & property management companies.

Don’t have a large development department, but want more collaboration on your multi-million dollar projects? NO problem. RENT SODA specializes in assisting developers!

Social Media Marketing? SEO? SE-WHAT? RENT SODA can bring you up to speed on social media marketing for your apartment communities and property management company.

Are you a developer or apartment owner reaching critical mass and want to self-manage or start-up your own property management company? RENT SODA specializes in new property management company start-ups.

Don’t have an apartment training department? Need apartment industry training? Want NEW energy & ideas brought to your next company training? No problem. Let RENT SODA customize our classes to fit YOUR environment, culture, policies/procedures. We focus on what YOU want so that your team gets the MOST out of their time.

If you don’t GET IT, don’t HAVE it, but NEED IT NOW,

RENT SODA! GET IT!

Real Estate

Apartment Development Projects are multi-million dollar investments. Don’t you want the best on your team at each step of the way? In today’s economy, everything needs to be RIGHT in order for your projects to work.

RENT SODA can assist developers during the development process by consulting on:

*Refining apartment floorplans that work for the target market.

*Reviewing the flow of traffic through your apartment project – does your traffic pattern make sense?

*Collaborate with your architect and designer to selecting finishes, textures, and design elements to provide a property management perspective.

*Reviewing unit mix & setting apartment rental rates for your target market (Market Study) and project (identifying alternative revenue streams where possible).

*Providing an outside opinion on your apartment project.

Whether this is a new apartment development or the repositioning of an existing multi-family apartment asset, RENT SODA can iron out the wrinkles through collaboration with your architects, interior designers and management team.

RENT SODA provides a fresh, outside, experienced perspective.

SHAKE IT UP with RENT SODA and see what happens.

Don’t Get it? RENT SODA! GET IT!

The Inner workings of a company – its operations, are as complicated or as simple as the inner workings of a watch. Many gears working together. Complicated yet, simple.

CHANGE?

A new department head?

Perhaps a recent layoff?

Perhaps unexpected growth?

Do you have the proper policies & procedures in place to keep your employees on track?

Does your operations need streamlining?

Does your company have the proper resources in order for your employees to succeed in today’s ever changing marketplace?

Or do you just want to know how others operate in similar situations?

Whatever the situation, apartment operations/property management companies that run smoothly create cashflow and value for their owners and investors. Operations that are not maximized can loose cash through poor income processes or poor expense processes.

Whatever the situation, carbonate, caffeinate, focus!

Don’t Get it? RENT SODA! GET IT!

Are you an apartment developer, investor, non-profit owner, who realizes the only way to CRUSH it in this market is to have more control of your asset, your operations and your interests?

Are you thinking about self-managing your apartment project or opening up a new property management company?

Are you looking for an alternative management company to your current property management company?

In this market, if your management company doesn’t GET IT, you need to GET WITH IT quickly.

Whether you are looking for a new property management company or thinking about starting up your own property management company, RENT SODA can help you navigate your choices.

RENT SODA has become the leading consulting company in the market of new management company start-ups.

RENT SODA – the RIGHT way to shake it up, start it up, and CRUSH it up!

Don’t Get it? RENT SODA! GET IT!

MADONNA-IT! MARKET IT!

Madonna is the Queen of Marketing, Branding and Identity. And in this day and age, your company & your property needs fresh marketing ideas more than EVER before.

RENT SODA understands today’s market. If your marketing isn’t attracting the customers you need, its time to revisit.

RENT SODA – shake it up and see what you get!

Is it your marketing?

Is it your brand?

Is it your image?

Whatever IT is, we GET IT, and we can help you re-invent, re-brand, re-market, refresh!

Learn from Madonna – times change, reinvent yourself!

Don’t Get it? RENT SODA! GET IT!

RENT SODA LOVES Social Media Marketing.

Because we GET IT, and we GET IT – GOOD.

Social Media Marketing can be confusing.

What to say on Twitter?

What to post on Facebook?

Video’s on YouTube?

What to do with flickr?

BLOGS?

ApartmentRatings.com?

Google Places?

Foursquare?

RENT SODA can help you map out your Social Media plan, navigate the waters, watch your online reputation and

create a REAL online presence.

Don’t GET IT? Shake it up! Get Sticky! RENT SODA! GET IT!

Want to POP ahead?

GET ON THE BUS WITH RENT SODA!

Don’t GET IT? GET IT! RENT SODA!

RENT SODA offers customized training at your office or location of your choice.  Contact info@rentsoda.com or call Daisy at 612.889.3733 for more info, pricing and to discuss customizing any of our core classes (listed below) to better meet your company’s needs and objectives.

Don’t have enough people to fill a class?  Chat with us about combining your team with another company’s team to create the positive learning environment and energy you are seeking.  We focus on being sensitive to your corporate culture, training needs and delivering an event that makes you POP!

Stay tuned for unique offerings in the coming months!

As we become aware of trends or speakers that meet our TRAINING POP standards, we find ways to integrate them into RENT SODA’s apartment industry training program as part of our commitment to helping our clients stay ahead of the trends!  Keep it POPPING!

RENT SODA TRAINING MENU:

Leasing Pop!

One of the most exciting things going for us in this age of social networking is the ability to create our own traffic and following!  How do we build interest in our properties?  Once we have the interest, how do we convert it to traffic?  We will also discuss tips for building relationship and closing the sale.  Pop your sales at Rent Soda’s Leasing Pop! Best as 2-half day sessions each a week apart.

Management Pop!

New to managing people? Existing manager looking to become a better manager? Pop your career by exercising and understanding management basics: your role as a leader, discovering and applying your resources, fairness, decision-making, organizing meetings, reviews and more! 1/2 day class.

Team Pop!

One of our most difficult jobs is developing team.  Who will take your job when you are ready for the next promotion?  How can you be a more independent manager if you don’t have a team that will take on the extra challenges?  Learn how to develop and grow an effective team.  We’ll teach you to use words like ‘coach’ and ‘mentor’—and actually know what they mean and LIVE them!  Pop your employees! 1/2 day class.

Equality Pop!

Nervous about your exposure to Fair Housing violations?  Rent Soda’s Equality Pop! class will walk you through the protected classes—both on a national and state level—and help you navigate your way through your work day.  We make this topic pop—and cover all your bases too. 1/2 day class.

Diversity Pop!

Having trouble dealing with ‘diversity’?  Frustrated with perceived ‘special treatment’?  Rent Soda’s Diversity Pop! helps you understand what diversity is in a way that is pragmatic as well as issue-sensitive.  (This class reviews Fair Housing basics as well.)  Being pro-diversity is good business. 1/2 day class.

Accounting POP!

Not an accountant? Need to better understand your financials & accounting processes? This is the class for you. Rent Soda’s Accounting POP! will walk you through the basics of reading and understanding your financial statements, what to pay attention to, what your owners & developers look for, etc. We will also review and define accounting & industry terms like NOI, cost per lease, gross potential rent, market rent, operating costs vs non-operating costs, etc. 1/2 day class.