by Jay O'Connell on February 26, 2009
by Jay O'Connell on February 25, 2009
Some of us are unfinished, rough-edged, gritty. Others are polished, poised, put-together. We share this city, walk side-by-side through its twisting, rutted streets, dodging traffic as we keep our respective dates with destiny. Different people need different kinds of apartments—every apartment hunt is as unique as each individual, as unique as every BRH ID, as [...]
by Jay O'Connell on February 23, 2009
Our technology allows our broker agents to post certified apartment listings to Craigslist in our template. We’ve engaged in some spirited debate with brokers and apartment hunters about what kind of information is needed in our template. We recently added links to help CL users flag redundant photos when they see the same photo [...]
by Jay O'Connell on February 22, 2009
You’re probably aware of the company American Apparel. From Wikipedia:
American Apparel (AMEX: APP) is the largest clothing manufacturer in the United States.[4] It is a vertically-integrated clothing manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer that also performs its own design, advertising, and marketing. It is best-known for making basic cotton knitwear such as t-shirts and underwear, but in recent years has expanded to include tank tops, vintage clothing, dresses, pants, denim and accessories for [...]
by hill on February 21, 2009
And taking it to the streets.
I’ve done a fair amount of design work over the last fifteen years or so. I’ve looked at a lot of stock photography. Pretty models with empty smiles. Guys in suits shaking hands under gleaming office towers. Graphs with jagged lines going up and down. It all blurs together.
Rental agencies [...]
by Jay O'Connell on February 20, 2009
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The personal is political. When we talk about a little thing like web-based apartment hunting, we find ourselves talking about the professional ethics of the broker / agent comunitiy, about how changes in technology produces changes in human behavior, and about the future of that change, the direction in which we [...]
by Jay O'Connell on February 19, 2009
We just bought our own color laser printer here at RBA / BRH / OMB. I figure we should be able to pump 5000 flyers through this baby. I couldn’t be happier, contemplating the messages, the images, I am about to unleash upon our fair city.
We’re taking it to the streets. Keeping it real.
Be on [...]
by Jay O'Connell on February 18, 2009
People love bargains. (Duh.) In today’s collapsing economy, who doesn’t want to save a few bucks? So why not restrict your searches to NO FEE apartments?
Well, there are lots and lots of reasons. This will turn into a series of articles, and when we have the time to catch our breath and crunch some data, [...]
by Jay O'Connell on February 14, 2009
This blog got it’s first pingback yesterday—an alert from Wordpress that someone had linked to RBA. I was delighted. Until I clicked the link and thought, well, I’m trying not to use the F-word. What the HECK, is what I thought.
The site was called…I won’t tell you; you don’t want to know; it was an [...]