My RPM Story – Lisa
My best friend encouraged me to work in residential property management (RPM), and now I have a lucrative career!As an RPM Careers ambassador, I want to inspire others to join this exciting...
View Article“My RPM Story” – Jada
Working in banking gave me customer service and analytical skills, but I wanted a career with a stronger connection to the community. That desire to help people led me to residential property...
View ArticleBorn This Way
My Dad is a high school English teacher, which means he corrected my grammar from the moment I began speaking. Not at all annoying! While I didn’t appreciate the dinner-time lessons on possessive...
View ArticleWon’t You Be Someone Else’s Neighbor
My best friend and I lived together for five years. During that time, her boyfriend lived with us for about 8 months. After they broke up, he stayed for another month.The Vatican is currently reviewing...
View ArticleCapitol Conference Advocacy Hits Critical Apartment Concerns
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View ArticleI Raised You Better
My parents and I visited my brother in Florida at the end of his freshman year in college. When we arrived, it became very clear that nothing had been cleaned since September. And by cleaned, I mean...
View ArticleiAddicted
November marked my post-modern birth. I bought my first smartphone.After years of holding steadfast to my tried and true flip phone—insisting that I had a better quality of life and was more connected...
View ArticleHe Sees You When You're Sleeping
My best friend owns a Roomba—one of those horrifying robot vacuums that come to life in the middle of the night while you’re “safely” tucked into bed. I’m not into it. Sure, the tiny machine can get in...
View ArticleNAA Capitol Conference Sets New Records, Kicks Off Advocacy 365
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View ArticleJe Ne Understand
I went to Europe last summer for the first time since I studied abroad nine years ago. In those nine years, I lost all foreign language competency. This became apparent as soon as I picked up our...
View ArticleWhere the Wild Things Are
Every year my friends and I hike in at least one new National Park. It’s a real nightmare for my mother, who imagines the various ways in which I’ll be mauled by an animal and doesn’t want to “know...
View ArticleOn Your Mark, Get Set... SUMMER!
Summer is a coming… in some places around the country it seems as if it’s already here. The maintenance staff is already busy away the ice melt and snow shovels and getting ready for the summer rush....
View ArticleHollywood On the Hill
I couldn’t pick a Senator out of a line-up, but I could spot Julia Roberts’ niece in a crowded Chipotle. What can I say—I’m a bad Washingtonian. I’ve never been a particularly politically minded...
View ArticleBad Apple
The trunk of my car functions as a combination storage unit / Dumpster. Still, nothing could prepare me for last week, when I was searching for a pair of heels and pulled out a tote bag from my best...
View Article“My RPM Story” – Daniel
After four years in the U.S. Navy, I had to make a choice — study medicine or study law. As it turns out, residential property management (RPM) chose me.When I graduated from high school in 2003, I...
View ArticleCaught in the Net
Much like a 5-year-old, my nightly routine consists of refusing to take myself to bed when I’m tired; instead falling asleep on the couch with all of the lights on until 2 a.m., when I finally stumble...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Homeless Veterans Outreach
By Sloan D. Gibson, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)VA's collaborations with organizations like the National Apartment Association (NAA) are essential to achieving our shared...
View ArticleSend, Retract, Repeat
I know someone who—after a series of email “incidents”, shall we say—set up her work inbox to send all emails on a three-minute delay. We’ll call it the post-Janet Jackson Super Bowl approach to office...
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