Resident Gift Ideas for Every Apartment Lifestyle
It's not about the cost of the gift, but about how meaningful it is to your resident. Residents want to know that you care, and they'll be WOWed when they realize you took the time to find a gift that resonates with their lifestyle.
We've rounded up some of our favorite gifts for a variety of lifestyles (pet-friendly, fitness, foodie, etc.) that can be used for welcomes, renewals, apologies, or appreciation efforts. These gifts are all under $25, and some are even less than $5. We tried to find a good mix of gifts that could work for any community!
Since this is all about making your residents feel good personally and individually, make sure you write a personalized note on the back of your flyer and have the entire team sign it.
(#1) Dog Lover Pet-friendly Resident Appreciation
P-awesome Gifts for Pet-Friendly Communities
Make sure your residents and their furry companions continue to feel the love. For an easy pet-friendly move-in or resident appreciation gift, pair a pet-friendly design with:
Pup claw dog toys. This one makes us giggle and it will make your residents giggle too.
Classic Alternatives:
Pet Treats (Buy a large box of Milk Bones and split them up into little bags - These treats will cost you less than $1.50 a bag!)
Pet Pickup Bags (this gets extra credit since it encourages pet pick-up!)
Tennis Balls
If you love their pets, they will love you!
(#2) CAT Lover - feline fine
Cats need love too! Sometimes we forget about these other fur babies. You have a lot of paw power at your community that pet-friendly businesses would love to have. Approach vets, groomers and pet stores around your area and see if they would be willing to sponsor move-in gifts by donating items in exchange for including their information. We are currently loving these:
Cat Treats
Cat Nip Packets
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(#3) Foodie Resident Gifts
The Great British Baking Show, Salt Fat Acid Heat, Ugly Delicious, Chef’s Table, The Bear… if any of these are familiar to you, you know that foodies represent a huge lifestyle right now.
Pair a “spice of life” design like ours with:
Spices from a local small batch supplier
We also (personally) know that new kitchen utensils are ALWAYS exciting
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(#4) wine lover resident gift idea
Help your residents sip back and relax at your community with these amazing wine lover tumblers. Keep glass out of your pool area and make your residents happy = win, win! If you don’t have time to get them printed with your community information, consider these:
Larger budget? Pair with a bottle of wine!
(#5) a gift for the travelers
Does it feel like half your community is on vacation? Help your residents think of home while they travel the globe with these luggage tags. There’s no place like home!
(#6) something for the creatives
Calling all creatives! Bring out the creative (or kid-friendly) side in your residents with a coloring page and colored pencils.
Members: choose from Sprout’s kid-friendly or adult-friendly coloring designs!
Crayons
Markers
(#7) organizer gifts
Did you know that planners, baskets and bins make some people extremely happy?! If outer order brings inner peace, than this gift is sure to be appreciated by your resident organizers.
Drawer Organizers
(#8) plant parent Apartment retention Gift
Plant parents are a real thing, (say hello to my gorgeous green babies on Instagram) and the joy they experience bringing a new plant baby home is yours to give! You can purchase mini succulents at your local grocery store for less than $5 each.
Amazon has a set of 3 for $9.20 and it doesn’t get much easier than sitting back and waiting for them to be delivered!
Simply pair these little beauties with a cute design or tag for the perfect gift. Adding a short, hand-written note is always a good idea (if it prevents you from doing this you can skip it, but we strongly recommend it)! Want to host an easy resident appreciation event around this theme? Check out our “Sips and Succulents Happy Hour".”
(#9) fitness lifestyle gift
We’re all familiar with marketing our fitness lifestyle and we want to continue that momentum with fitness-themed retention. Pair a resident appreciation design with:
Why we love this? 1) Everyone takes their favorite water bottle everywhere and they will think of YOU as they grab it. 2) It’s better for them and the environment than plastic water bottles.
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