Letter from the Editor

THE Letter from EDITOR

2022 marks our 50th anniversary of AAA’s “Products and Services Show” — hosted first in 1972. Can you dig it?!

Emily Blair, CAE

Executive Vice President / Executive Editor

Thinking about the first 30 booths and the products they featured, it is easy to see how the products and services are really the cornerstones of innovation in the multifamily world. Just browse today’s AAA directory [https:// www.austinaptassoc.com/members] and it is obvious – from fiber internet to virtual touring, to keyless entry, not to mention data and analytics – that many of our industry’s products and services are hardly a shadow of their past. Driving this innovation, is the way properties operate and the demands of modernday property management. A 1970s issue of “Apartment

News” (precursor to WINDOW) stated, “many small and medium-sized complexes do not prepare annual budgets, but merely to keep expenses down and occupancy up.” Hard to imagine in today’s world of sophisticated budgeting, property management systems, and analytics!

Bottom line: innovation in these areas has made the industry more professional, more technical, and therefore a high-opportunity industry.

This also means, now more than ever, we are HIRING! The multifamily industry has grown in opportunities just as much as it has innovated. It is crucially important for the industry to promote all that it offers. What better way than Residential Property Management (RPM) Careers Week! RPM Careers Week is July 18-22 and is an opportunity to highlight the amazing work of the residential property management industry and give prospective job seekers a peek into what this type of career is all about. Help us spread the word! Visit rpmcareers.org/rpmcareersweek to learn more and get involved!

Hope to see you all at the Trade Show in October!

Catch you on the flipside,

Emily Blair, CAE