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11 Questions to Ask When Renting a Furnished Apartment

August 3, 2010 General No Comments

11 Questions You Should Worry About Asking With Any Other Corporate Apartment Company: Is the price guaranteed? -Always get this in writing. When people are pressed for time, the chance of spotting something irregular or misleading is decreased dramatically. Would the price drop if I were to book for a longer time frame? This is [...]

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Miracle Mile in a Nutshell

July 13, 2010 Housing No Comments

The Miracle Mile community in Los Angeles is everything you could want in LA –From food to kooky shops, to art museums and pristine culture. Miracle Mile is for those who want it all. That’s why we’ve made this our target area where we hand-pick apartments for our tenants. For some of our guests, a [...]

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Letter to Landlords

May 26, 2010 General 1 Comment

LA Furnished Apartments 462 N. McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90004 Tel. 323 788 4483 Fax 323 965 9963 Website: http://www.FurnApt.com Email: LA@FurnApt.com Corporate Apartments are the same exact apartment and type of tenant you are leasing to now. One difference is I am the tenant and our tenant is a tenant. You meet him, [...]

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Interview With LA Furnished

April 21, 2010 General 1 Comment

Interview with a Corporate Housing Small Business Owner What is the most rewarding part of what you do? Providing great relationships with the tenants is by far the most rewarding part of this biz. I love to hear positive feedback too. There’s nothing like answering the phone to: “I love the apartment, thanks!” Okay so [...]

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Why the Volcano Will Not Disrupt the Travel and Housing Industry

April 16, 2010 Housing 2 Comments

Trans Atlantic travel was rocked today by a massive plume of volcanic ash, spewing sporadic heat, clouds of sediment in the air and causing a melee of mechanical difficulties. The pockets of heat caused unpredictable and violent effects on airliner engines and flights unable to be diverted are being grounded with all precautions taken. The [...]

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How fear controlled our business and the media devastated our country

April 13, 2010 Business No Comments

Out of fear, many people repeat the following phrases endlessly: “this economy sucks!”, “our economic woes…”, “with this economy…”, “in these uncertain times…” The temporary housing market is far from devastated despite widespread news coverage to the contrary. News sources today are projections of fear that have stifled many markets they “report” to. Yes, there [...]

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How We Started our Small Furnished Apartment Company

April 6, 2010 Business No Comments

How We Started our Small Corporate Apartment Company How we got started was a rewarding but painful ordeal. My father found 3 buildings with the same owner/manager. We never found out if they actually owned the buildings or if they were just running them into the ground at another’s expense. They were built in the [...]

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Sports Cars and Sandpaper

April 1, 2010 Housing 1 Comment

How can I picture the difference between Hotels and you guys? Imagine driving around in a two-seater sports car. Now that’s a pretty picture but put yourself behind the wheel. You feel the power obviously; you also feel the wind with the top down and the envious stares from all around you. What isn’t obvious [...]

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Why I don’t take credit cards

March 18, 2010 Business No Comments

A Landlords Thoughts on Ethics I don’t take credit cards. I’ve struggled with this for years although I may have come to peace with it recently. We’re in the Corporate Housing business. A SMALL business, family owned and operated but we are growing and I’d like to see us….but I’m getting off topic. Here is [...]

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What is a Corporate Apartment?

February 17, 2010 Housing 3 Comments

I want to get back to basics here and write an answer to an easily overlooked question. When someone asks me what I do and I say ‘corporate real estate’ or ‘corporate rentals’ they say ‘oh’, turn slightly, and I then try not to notice the all too familiar glaze in their eyes. Sometimes its a convenient conversation stopper but mostly in business its time. Quite literally, time.

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