the deck with Gus, (my Bull Terrier) some coffee and listening to the Clawson Parade Bagpipers, a half block away, a pretty cool morning!

@Eric_Urbane

Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 7:09 AM

Two Fighter Jets just zoomed overhead, wow those are fast

Going to the ULI Forum in Oct, I have heard Grand Rapids may be a good spot for apartments http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/umuliforum/index.html

Wonderful Fireworks tonight at Fourteen Mile and Crooks, Great Job Troy/Clawson, really cool to watch, tons of people enjoying the display

It is a brisk morning on the deck, the birds are chirping, and the sun shines brightly. Working on Q2 financials for the properties

Reading the Age of Conversation again, recognize many more of the authors this time, Excellent Job to all the contributors,

@mdutech, Good to see you tonight, Hope you weekend was restfull,

A Social a Media Product that will blow our Multi Family Friends into the woods. What If the apartment was secondary? Stay Tuned,

Not kidding with this, It is the craziest idea so far, and may well change How we Market and Brand Apartments, Not for the Faint at Heart

Business as Usual will Never be the Same; No Paid Advertising; http://tinyurl.com/5cczc7

Need Rest? Cross Marketing with our friends at 6 Salon on a Sleep Pod, http://tinyurl.com/6bwe8b

So, Salomon on the grill melted goat cheese, red wine, Bony James playing, salad with cherry tomatoes and mozzarella cheese, does that work?

Good Night Twitter Friends, off to Dream Up the Next Big Bang, not kidding either, Hide and Watch………., More to Follow!

Working on a Blog Post for @themarketingguy for Jay’s Guerrilla Marketing Series, forgot some of the cool things about Jay Conrad Levinson

Urbane Lobby expands membership, Check us out, Cool Residents, Cool Place http://urbaneapartments.ning.com/

Resident Evangelist Aaron, A talented artist is a wall mural in the corridor at @Urbaneapts on Cks Nrth this weekend. Flip Videos to follow

Flip Video of Gus with a peanut butter filled Kong coming to the @Urbane Loves Pets in the Urbane Lobby, http://urbaneapartments.ning.com/

Doing some blogging, and listening to the rain, and, Gus is still amused by the peanut butter filled Kong

Brck from Apartment Commodity http://tinyurl.com/6occvt

Blow Up You Matketing Direction http://tinyurl.com/6zsn7w

We agree retweet @johnjbailey Media must be negative. We all can be positive. Let's keep it up. New business activity is very strong

All Urbane Apartment locations are now getting sidewalks, entryways and common areas Power Washed twice a month to stay sparkling clean!

Let's Get This Party Started; Urbane Apartments adds Stainless Steel Gas Grills to common areas. They are a big hit!

Negotiating with a local restaurateur to provide Delivery/Room Service to Urbane Residents, including beer and wine, pretty exciting!

The Urbane Lobby is growing over 20% of our resident base signed up in the first ten days Check it out http://urbaneapartments.ning.com/

Working on Operations Issues today, Marketing is much more fun

The future of meetings and corporate travel http://tinyurl.com/6xk6es

Working on Q2 Operating Statements all day, eyes are numb, We need a controller! Yikes! Maybe when we grow up and are a big company

Urbane Apts used ORANGE Striping on two parking lots, it looks very cool. Was @ltrosien idea. A simple way to differentiate your product

Setting up files for three new Fee Managed Deals for Urbane, our first stab at third party management

Are You Getting the Result you Want? http://tinyurl.com/6oe4h9

Spirit is substance which forms itself according to your demands. It makes as little difference to Spirit what we demand

If we don’t like what’s happening to us in the world all we have to do is change our consciousness and the world out there changes for us

Road Trip to Col OH with a local developer and architect to scope out the area for the next Urbane Pod a week from Wed.

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

The picture you think, feel and see is reflected into the Universal Mind and must return to you in either spiritual or physical form

“Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Limited funding for your Marketing Efforts? http://tinyurl.com/6l9asx

The trick is to dissolve those objections until you are clear inside. When you are, manifesting whatever you want will be easier

Urbane Apartments is transforming how we process lease paperwork, now accepting on line electronic signatures for those residents on the go

retweet @30lines: This is pretty cool, Could apartments build a community-stream? See http://is.gd/166G (expand) and http://is.gd/1aoj

Beliefs cause stress, not your business or life situations.

“Change your conclusions, or your beliefs about the events in your past,” and "you can change the way you live your life today"

Beliefs shape the way we feel, think and act, But you can’t change them until you know what they are

AngeloMandato, Good Morning, Thanks for following, I look forward to an exchange of ideas,

Headed out to do some bike riding with my little guy

Listening to the Masters of Jazz, I think I am really from a different era

@30lines, It seems it must start at Corp because it requires a money commitment, plus current source site folks may not have req skill set

Taking my bride to our new favorite corner pub, Black Lotus for lunch and a brew. A beauty of a day here in SE MI this fine Saturday!

What is Social Media, repost by @30lines our apartment friend, http://tinyurl.com/5c2sgr

The weekends provide me time for creative thinking and planning, perhaps I should craft a life of Saturdays! Is it just a choice?

Rethinking how we process Guest Cards, need to put the “Guest” back into the residents experience, we are dropping the ball, Time to Fix!

retweet, @admore "If you hear someone use the words impossible, never, too difficult too often, drop him or her from your social network."

retweet, @mdutech "Don't be seduced by the normalcy of mediocrity" Right on target Mike!

Headed to Ronin in downtown Royal Oak for cocktails and sushi with my bride tonight, too hot for the deck,

Headed for Short North in Col OH today in search of the next Urbane Pod,

Headed for sushi with @AndrewKuhn today. Better brush up on my Law of Attraction studies!

Great sushi with @AndrewKuhn today, Thanks for the intro to Noble Fish!

@JenniferLaycock I grew around Jackson Center OH where the legendary Wally Byam Airstream’s were built, http://tinyurl.com/airstrea...

It is a beautiful morning on the deck here in Clawson MI

Detroit loves their cars! There are all kinds of classics and hot rods out this time of year, it is pretty cool.

Just filled out my profile for; Seth Godin has invited you to join Triiibes For people who want to lead a tribe and make something happen.

Thinking about the next chapter for Urbane as I head out for a morning bike ride. It is a gorgeous morning in Royal Oak MI today

Following @admore advice, Track Things, starting with Food Intake and Exercise, like Income and Expense, keep one higher than the other

I just put the connection together How is the Property Management Program coming, when available, is it scalable and what makes it different

Enjoying the Olympics, those weightlifters are pretty focused

Working on a Guest Blog Post for @bcarroll7 for her blog at Customers Rock on Value and Great Customer Experience, hope it makes the cut!

Retweet @admore, "Started following @bcarroll7 because of your post" Check out Customers Rock Web Site http://customersrock.wordpress.com/

Retweet @shannonpaul "Social Multitasking: Are you making people hate you?" Prehaps we need to listen and focus, http://tinyurl.com/67webw

"I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the chaos of ignorance." - David Ogilvy

An early start to big day today

Mind-set flexibility, not propriety expertise or resources, will define the successful businesses and leaders of the future.

Another wild day here in paradise, wow!

Confucius; Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

Confucius; To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

A long but fruitful week, I welcome the weekend!

On the deck with some coffee, listening to and watching the hot rods and classic cars everywhere for the Woodward Dream Cruise, really cool

Thinking about the next project, innovative and creative shared office space,

Week three of Seth’s site Triiibes, Great collaboration with like minded people

Everything We need to know about PR we can learn from Paris Hilton, http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

When residents are truly thrilled about their experience, they can become outspoken "evangelists" and a potent marketing force

There may be a better way, http://tinyurl.com/599z94

Any thoughts on how to reinvent lease renewals, comments? http://tinyurl.com/599z94

@JenniferLaycock, Hi Jennifer, Yes, loved the Brewery and Arena District, and Short North, will be heading back soon

@30lines, I would love to participate

Apartment Luxury, Concierge Service defined, great find @admore, http://tinyurl.com/6d89c6

Hello Friends!

Having coffee by the lake listening to As a Man Thinks

Working on a Guest Blog Post for Jay at http://themarketingspot.blogspot.com/ for a series on Guerrilla Marketing.

Headed out for a pontoon boat ride, on vacation this week on a small lake in mid state OH

Extend Your Customer Reach; http://tinyurl.com/6fpeb7

"Advertising is a tax you pay for unremarkable thinking." From Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad

retweet; @rentbits; "Life's journey is.....http://tinyurl.com/5jutvs

My youngest, (11) who is partially autistic, but very intellectual, is watching the Democratic Convention and cheering them on, Yikes!

Just started using TweetDeck

FaceBook or MySpace debate http://tinyurl.com/56hs7f

retweet @artchickhb; Emerson "To be great is to be misunderstood" But does it really have to be that way?

UrbaneLobby.com is now live. New things are coming, stay tuned,

Dare to be Different, “Break from Apartment Commodity” http://tinyurl.com/5mraqk

Good Morning Friends,

What metrics do apt folks understand increased NOI, ROI, Cash on Cash Rtn, or are folks just so stuck on a deep seated need to be right

@30lines, But if you were to guess, is it 25%, 50% or less,

I love the new ads and flexible headers you can create on Craig s List, pretty cool http://detroit.craigslist.org/apa/890875911.html

What the Flock? http://www.flock.com/

Well, there you go, @HajjFlemings & @shannonpaul we all could use some entertainment, pretty cool if it brings a smile and a laugh

Got a fire going and having cocktails with my lovely wife, Life is Good!

FIVE15 described by Gary Baglio “the best metrosexual gift shop in all of Michigan” http://tinyurl.com/6zr4ly

Good Morning, It is Friday!

What are you doing to make a difference today? Friday only comes once a week, make it a Great Day!

Acknowledge someone for something today, it will make a difference.

Value creation wins every time. With a sliding economy it is more important than ever http://www.apartmentveteran.com/

A great weekend at Saugetuack MI. No slow economy over there, store owners and venders told me this was one of their best seasons ever!

Very Strange, A Monday morning email from the RO Chamber titled "Michigan's Premier Bankruptcy law firm. Not a good start for my Monday!

Had a great breakfast and morning conversation with @CharlieCurve

Working on scheduling all the move ins that @Heather_Urbane has rented this month! What a great problem to solve!

The whole Pepsi logo issue is a great indicator just how confused some marketers can be

Working on a multi-family leasing lead generation that delivers completed Guest Cards direct to the leasing consultant for a lump sum

What fun things are you doing tonight?

An evening cocktail and a fire going as the MI wind howls and fall fades away.

Windy tonight in MI, Love the wind chimes on a night like tonight!

An early morning Good Morning to All!

People Do What Works, Time to Take Responsibility, http://www.apartmentveteran.com/

E mail messages seem endless,

retweet @themarketingguy; made the @jowyang blog! ....Along with about 50 other tweeters http://tinyurl.com/6y8uoo

Retweet; @MackCollier These are very exciting times, solid SM expertise is a GREAT addition to a marketing firm/agency!

Talking with @pirie tomorrow about his brilliant Landlord Lou campaign http://tinyurl.com/59cn84

Heading home tweet friends! A great, great day!

RT @LisaHoffmann Tweeps who are focused on getting more followers are work against themselves. Focus on delivering something ppl wanna read.

Yikes, I am tired, bit what a Grand Day! Night all,

RT; @themarketingguy; Twitter is the Rotary Club on the web

I continue in amazement of the perfect order of the universe at such times as I choose to be "awake" enough to experience it.

Pretty tried, Good night all

Good Morning everyone! Let's make it a great day!

What are you giving away? http://tinyurl.com/654zn5

Boiler troubles today at one of buildings with a steam boiler, Not all days are fun days in the apartment business,

Starting to use G-Mail for responce and follow up for Resident Service Requests

Successful Social Media needs regular and consistent effort, always dripping.............

This neighborhood is Detroit’s Mexicantown. http://tinyurl.com/5fg33w

Headed downtown,

Just got back from a great meeting downtown

You know, I sure am meeting some really cool people through SM, twitter, blogs etc. Pretty fascinating how all the dots connect,

brentwilliams2, Hi Brent, Why a new version of MFI?

Good Morning, and it is Friday!

In the fall, our wind chimes are so beautiful on these windy days, like have an orchestra outside the window.

2 marble jars 1 for yesterdays & 1 for tomorrows As yesterdays jar became more full than the tomorrow jars what would you do different today

Brand Check Up, You don't get to vote, your resident or customer does1 http://www.apartmentveteran.com/

What a beautiful Halloween day

Urbane & Black Finn sponsored Halloween contest Urbane residents get free stuff & priority Details in the Urbane http://www.urbanelobby.com/

RT; @ltrosien; Coming out with a Lisa Trosien line of Apartment Gifts, Renewal Gifts and Leasing Tools this year

I find that pretty strange too, RT; @MackCollier I love it when people follow me and have protected updates. What is this, blind dating?

I am pretty excited today, @CharlieCurve & @TerryBean, lets do something to change the world before going home! I have time if you do,

Your ears, just listen, RT @Marc_MeyerWhat do you think are the best tools to manage a companies reputation online?

Meet the team at Urbane Blog who are keeping readers current with things to do http://tinyurl.com/6x98x6

Urbane got some ink at Builder Magazine! http://tinyurl.com/625wvh

Attention marketing friends, make sure the phone number is on carry out menus!

See ya everyone, have a grand evening. off for some steaks to grill

Good Morning, Saturday is my most favorite day,

Reading Word of Mouth Manual ebook

Night friends, pretty tired after a great steak dinner and some cocktails with my bride

Good morning twitter friends,

Listening to Power to the Small Business, lots of great stuff by @themarketingguy http://themarketingspot.podomatic.com/

Which is more important, what you know or who you know?

If you could do anything you wanted for the next (10) years what would it be? The dirty little secret, you can.

I think my Bull Terror "Gus" is over caffeinated too, he is acting like a nut. Shouldn't have allowed him that extra cup of Joe,

Just got a new Boise docking station for my ipod, jamming to Journey and Boston, like I was back in high school, Yikes!

Do You Know Your Brand? http://www.apartmentveteran.com/

Builders on Twitter Urbane gets ink http://tinyurl.com/625wvh

The Detroit Zoo is featuring a fascinating look at the world of scientific illustration http://tinyurl.com/5fg33w

The renters may, but the property owners not likely, RT @tkotula "Renters More Likely to Vote for Obama": http://tinyurl.com/646fgk

Strong Oct, good traffic, (17) rentals, Note to self, Don't listen to the news, continue to create a Remarkable Product and Experience

Our office is next to the Oakland Co Democratic Headquarters, They are getting pretty excited over there

Yikes! I may well get a lesson in managing a blog A Guest Blogger has sparked some emotion http://tinyurl.com/5fg33w

Night folks, pretty tired, time change has me mixed up, pretty silly how an hour makes a difference

@30lines, (30) comments and still rolling, what do you think? http://tinyurl.com/5fg33w

Folks are really pumped up today, the Oakland Co Democratic party office is our neighbor, and they are buzzing!

@30lines Yep, We need to capitalize on the opportunity. Girl signing her lease yesterday, said one reason she picked Urbane, SM connections

Working on Rent Rolls, ugh, so time consuming............

@tehmarketingguy, what is going on in Houston?

Enjoying a cocktail with my wife, and am excited about the new direction of the US, even though it wasn't my vote the Democrats are sweeping

Getting ready for a partner meeting, another one after lunch.

Our 3' tall martini glass just showed up, it is the new home for "Gill" our Urbane fish. It would cost $2000 in Grey Goose to fill this up!

Much agreed, Retweet @MaureenFrancis I still don't like mean people.

There are a lot of pets around here, "Gus" our Bull Terror ate Kim's chili off her desk today!

The first half of making the sale is to entertain and engage them!

The Devil is in the Details Take care of the little things and the big things take care of themselves, Some refer to that as Mico Management

Finalizing negotiations for a (42) in Birmingham tomorrow, this one is a Sweat REO deal, 100% vacant, one week to close!

Want to see some scary, but Hip and Cool Residents having a blast at the Halloween Party, Love to Live It! http://www.urbanelobby.com/

Never underestimate courage RT @Admore "Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." Peter F. Drucker

Wow, a long day and still a few more things to do before going home. Maybe I shouldn't play around on twitter and with martini fishbowls!

Night all, headed for dream land, where everything works out exactly as I imagine it, Sleep Well!

@rockson Good morning, Love your outlook, keep at it

HUGE DAY, negotiated a 42 unit deal in Birmingham and working on a 45 unit deal downtown, spinning right now,

Good Morning, finishing some coffee, getting ready for the day. I have great expectations, ever wonder how your day may change with intent

Royal Oak Bike Paths, http://tinyurl.com/5fg33w

dennisfassett, How did the seminar go?

Hey Lisa, How is the pretension going, and are you selling the benefits of Social Media and the attraction that residents have for it

@ltroisen Hey Lisa, How is the pretension going, and are you selling the benefits of SM and the attraction that residents have for it

Met with my mentor yesterday, Jonathan Holtzman, CEO of Village Green Companies, his advice develop and perfect Centralized Leasing,

Packing up to get out of the office, looking forward to the weekend!

Cooked a great dinner for Kim (my lovely bride), having some cocktails and really enjoying this fine Friday evening, hope you are too

Looking for some great jazz, here is a Must See, a real classic http://tinyurl.com/6898gk

@JenniferLaycock Hey Jenifer, I am looking forward to doing some posts for you that Rock the House!

This is how to create Remarkable RT @pirie at some point, people have to let go of certainty in favor of what's possible... what could be...

Hey, Try the bus tomorrow, http://tinyurl.com/5fg33w

Drinking apple cider & working on some regular blog posts for @jenniferlaycocks Small Business Answers http://www.smallbusinessanswers.com/

Hey, How is this for an Urbane Halloween Party? http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbaneapartments/page2/

Where Everyone Knows Your Name, http://tinyurl.com/683cvn

Your New Best Friend,............. http://www.apartmentveteran.com/

Listening to @themarketingguy podcast on Social Media http://tinyurl.com/56rmep

I @AmberCadabra may be over caffeinated this morning (Don't block me)

Following up with Residents Service Requests, SM in action,

RT @mackcollier I am a HUGE believer in monitoring. HAS to be done. Blogging is optional, listening to the conversation is not.

Yikes! All of our Yelp comments have vanished,

Careful never know who is listening might be @bcarroll7 http://tinyurl.com/683cvn

Just confirmed that I will be doing a presentation at AIM (Apartment Internet Marketing) in Denver in April, pretty excited!

do you know who is listening? http://tinyurl.com/683cvn

Night friends, early day tomorrow, plan on being in downtown Chicago by 7:30 Yikes,

In the new North Terminal at Detroit metro, wow, nicely done. Makes flying my favorite airline, Southwest even better. Off to Chicago....

Boarding flight now

You can't hide anymore, not today, http://tinyurl.com/683cvn

Just got to Midway in Chicago, Southwest is a class act, they allowed Veterans to board first today because of Veterans Day, pretty cool