New Mexico Apartments

Since their conception in 2008, Airbnb has risen up the ranks of the hospitality industry to provide easy accommodations to travelers across the world. However, is the process too easy to abuse? While I’ve personally had a positive experience as a guest, countless landlords across the US are developing the opposite impression after discovering their residents illegally subleasing.

The problem has grown nationwide as these tenants’ subleasing has begun to affect the rental housing industry. Even college students are renting out their spare dorm beds on Airbnb, sneaking their guests past campus security and their ever-watchful resident advisors.

Visit https://www.applyconnect.com/blog/are-tenants-listing-your-property-on-airbnb/ to view the full article online.

Rehabilitation of multifamily properties has always been a difficult decision for the owner, and to make green upgrades is a tougher call because of the reputation of green upgrades being costly. The upfront cost, hassle of managing the rehab, issue of split incentive i.e. owner pays for the upgrades while the tenants receive the benefits, often leads owners to not even consider a rehab, let alone green upgrades.

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/aan-nwl/articles/index.asp?aid=361868&issueID=50386 to view the full article online.

The flood of new apartments will put upward pressure on vacancy rates in the next two years, but the multifamily market should stay strong, according to a new Freddie Mac forecast.

More than 300,000 multifamily units were built and entered the market in 2015 — the most since 1989.

Visit http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/secondary/multifamily-expansion-to-stay-brisk-through-2017-freddie-1071669-1.html to view the full article online.

In the years since Santa Fe began requiring rental housing developers to make 15 percent of units in any new development priced at an affordable level instead of the market rate, only one multifamily housing development has been built: the San Isidro Apartments near Cerrillos Road and Zafarano Drive.

So Santa Fe City Council has voted to change the definition of "extreme hardship" and amend the requirements for rental units to allow developers to pay a fee-in-lieu of building those affordable units. The hope is that by loosening these requirements, Santa Fe will see more rentals built and the basic economics of supply and demand will take over to rein in runaway rental prices in Santa Fe and make it possible for more of the city’s workforce to afford living here.

Visit http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-11580-more-rentals-please.html to view the full article online.

The Housing Trust is poised to develop a bright, contemporary-design apartment complex with a strong wellness component at Las Soleras. The project named Soleras Station will offer housing for a range of residents, including disabled persons, the previously homeless, and those with limited income; it will serve households earning from 30 percent to 80 percent of median income. The Housing Trust has partnered with the city of Santa Fe, Pulte Homes, and the architecture firm Dekker/Perich/Sabatini on what is planned as a pilot program for certification through International WELL Building Inc.

Visit http://www.santafenewmexican.com/life/home/well-building-pilot-planned-at-las-soleras/article_6dff7013-9854-54ca-a3fc-ea93390ddc9c.html to view the full article online.

In the real estate industry, changing trends have manifested themselves in delayed home-buying and an increase of millennial movement from suburbs to cities.

Visit https://www.multihousingnews.com/post/appealing-to-millennials-how-technology-can-help-future-proof-your-multifamily-property/ to view the full article online.

It’s the New Year and what better way to start off the year than by getting happy and improving your life. For years, practiced ways to improve my life and direct it on a simpler path. When the going gets tough, I get going with these trusty practices that always help me refocus on my ultimate goals – being a happier, healthier person.

Here are a few simple but powerful actions you can take that have certainly helped me over the years.

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/aan-nwl/articles/index.asp?aid=362619&issueID=50386 to view the full article online.

AANM offers over 500 hours of education every year.

Sign up for a specific offering below or visit our website for a detailed list of all classroom seminars, luncheons, and events. 

Celebrate your maintenance teams with our annual maintenance competition on March 29, 2016 at Expo New Mexico!

 Click here for information about the event and to get registered.

Paul Rhodes, NAA National Maintenance & Safety Instructor will be in the AANM classroom starting April 26, 2016 to provide all educational courses required to receive the nationally recognized and ANSI certified CAMT. Click here for more details and to register.

An interactive luncheon with stakeholders from all facets of public sector housing opportunities.

The goal is to provide information, education, and collaboration to improve the delivery of public sector projects. Whether you are already accepting Section 8 vouchers or you have reservations about doing so, this is the luncheon for you.

Registration available here.

At long last, we are inside 2016; the year where major change is guaranteed in at least one of our branches of government and where there is potential for change in one of the others. The Obama Administration comes to end at the close of this year. Whether the new occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is of the same or opposite party, there will be a new voice at the bully pulpit, a new approach to leading the nation and, indeed, the world. In the Congress, the House of Representatives will stay in the same party’s hands – barring something crazy happening elsewhere in the political machine – while the Senate is once again up for grabs. Senate Republicans will struggle and strive to maintain their slim majority while House Republicans will attempt to preserve the scale of theirs. Of course, that is 10 months from now and we have miles to go before we sleep (or pass out from campaign fatigue)

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/aan-nwl/articles/index.asp?aid=362618&issueID=50386 to view the full article online.

The apartment industry’s national advocacy event has its largest goal ever: Reach All 535 Congressional Offices on Lobby Day (March 9)!

Whether you’re a veteran or it’s your first time, your voice is needed to be a part of the largest contingent ever of apartment industry professionals across the U.S. to advocate on Capitol Hill during Lobby Day.

To prepare for this historic event, learn how to enhance your advocacy skills, find out the critical issues facing the industry, and hear from former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.), host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, during the NAA Capitol Conference (March 8). Then head to Capitol Hill the following day to make history!

Visit http://capitol-naa.naahq.org/lobby-day-capitol-conference to view the full article online.

A trip to the movies inspired a state senator to try and update New Mexico’s indoor smoking ban to include e-cigarettes.

Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, says he noticed people smoking in the theater and realized that it remained legal under state law. Currently, smoking is not allowed inside most buildings in the state to protect the public from second-hand smoke.

Visit http://krqe.com/2016/02/04/proposed-indoor-e-cigarette-ban-in-new-mexico-introduced/ to view the full article online.