Ten years old!  Ten years young!

In 2001 the original founders of Resite started with what was at the time a very novel idea: that residents would want to pay their rent online. So we built the industry’s first ResidentHub to allow residents to pay online, submit maintenance requests, and stay current on community events.  Through the years we have added email capability, resident communication, lead management, resident rewards, and more.  In total ResidentHubs have processed over $1.3 billion in rent payments from more than 860,000 residents saving multifamily operators bundles of money and time. It is the original resident portal.  It is the most fully-featured resident hub.  It is still the best ResidentHub.

Out of our original work on ResidentHubs came calls from our customers for more – “Help us with websites; help us with online leasing; we want to market ourselves better on the Internet.”  So we developed LeasingPath, the most flexible online leasing application in the industry today.  It conforms to your processes and your application and converts those electronic inquiries into leases.  And we built thousands of the hardest working and best looking corporate and property websites out there.  They highlight your strengths.  They draw search engine traffic to you.  They drive you leads. They get prospects to visit you in person.

Globally, to simplify working with your systems already in place, we further integrated with RealPage, Yardi, MRI, AMSI, payment processors, VaultWare, Blue Moon, utilities, and multiple credit screeners.  Perhaps most telling, we count some of the proudest names in the industry as customers: Barrett & Stokely, Flaherty and Collins, McCann, Michael Stevens, NTS, Preiss, Venterra, Zaremba, and many more.

Along the way we were acquired by the big company, merged with one of its offspring, swallowed by one of its divisions, and finally (thankfully) spit back out on our own.  So here we are back to our entrepreneurial selves.

What does that mean looking forward?  We have solid financial backing.  We are a team with over 100 years of combined multifamily and Internet applications experience.  Our servers are hosted in a world class facility on top equipment.  We have just completed a redesign and upgrade of ResidentHub enhancing its usability and fully adapting it for mobile, which we will roll out to current customers in the fourth quarter.  We are finishing up a new website tool that is faster, smarter, and more flexible – which means easier for you to use, more features, more leads, and more closed prospects.  And we have begun work on new web enhancement tools that will help you stand out more and lower your cost per lead.

Even more, we have reorganized and rededicated ourselves to providing the very best customer service anywhere.  We have revamped our internal processes, welcomed original founder Greg Starr back onto the team, sharpened our current integrations while beginning work on new ones, and dramatically expanded our training to help properties get more out of our tools.

Internet marketing and tools can be complicated.  We get that – and we understand that our role is to sort through it for you.  We are dedicated to being your Internet partner, helping you make the most of a growing marketing and communications channel.

The first ten years seem to have flown by.  We look forward to working together over the next ten.

Peter Ill
President and Owner

We can’t wait to see you in New Orleans!

Resite Online will be at 2010 National Apartment Association Education Conference & Exposition, June 24^th and 25^th. Please make sure to stop by booth #1012 to meet our team and find out how our websites work hard, so you can rest easy.

Our new Mobile Leasing product includes 3 distinct functionalities all tied into one!  Custom mobile community websites with LeasingPath^SM guest-card integration, SMS messaging from desktop website, and keyword/short code SMS messaging and advertising tools that can be used for marketing and 2-way communication between prospective residents and your apartment community.

Our lead driving MarketingWebsites^SM are designed with usability and browser compatibility in mind. Using our new Resite Online Design Showroom, you get the customized look you want and the design excellence you count on Resite to provide, with a simplified implementation process.

Our ResidentHub^SM resident portal has unparalleled flexible online rent payment solutions, maintenance requests, utility connections, renters insurance sign-up, and full-scope resident communication and tracking tools, all seamlessly integrated with your favorite property management software solutions.

Our Search Engine Strategies packages provide you the ultimate in Internet marketing through pay-per-click advertising, social media optimization, local search marketing, and search engine optimization.

Win a FREE Desktop and Mobile Apartment Community Website!

Visit our booth #1012 and compete in our version of NBC’s popular new television show Minute To Win It’s game “Movin on Up”.

One grand prize winner will receive a FREE desktop and mobile apartment community website* for a year!!! An over $3000 value!!!! Runner-up, winners will receive a Resite Online Executive Package that includes a travel coffee mug, hard cover notebook, flash drive, and pen. Follow @resiteonline on Twitter to find out about the winners.

*Some design restrictions apply.

Hey, Property Managers! Did you know your residents can communicate to each other and exchange ideas and information through our ResidentHub portal?

It’s called Community Connect, and it’s a small, convenient space designed to let your residents share basic information.

They can log into their ResidentHub and Select Community Information.

Then they need to click on the sidebar labeled “Community Connect”.

Once in, your residents can view posts from other residents in their community, such as offers for ride-sharing or baby-sitting, or items for sale. They can also make posts of their own and contact each other by email to arrange exchanges.

With Community Connect, your residents can get to know people in their own neighborhood, rely on each other for goods and services, and build a community to call home. Tell them about it today!