Career development and work-life-balance can be difficult to navigate, but Mark Hurley is giving advice here that will help you feel encouraged and empowered to better yourself and impact those around you. Property managers and real estate professionals are some of the busiest people on the planet, so acquiring balance is no small feat. Tune in to learn how creating a healthy balance of ambition and home life can benefit you, how to operate differently in wartime versus peacetime and why setting rules for yourself is a good thing.

In this episode I have a conversation with multifamily hall of fam-er Mark Hurley. Mark talks about the importance of other people’s influence on your core values and how you carry those with you throughout your personal and business life. He also talks about the importance of genuinely caring for people in our industry, as well as life in general. If you’ve felt bogged down and uninspired in where you are in your career, this is the episode you need to listen to.

Marketing your apartment community or your real estate business can be a real challenge. In today’s Marketing Home, Marketing You episode we uncover the top four marketing mistakes made in 2019 and we show simple ways to fix them in 2020. Fixing these four mistakes will lead to huge gains in time, energy and return on your investments. Tune in.

If you’re a part of the Sprout Community in any way then you know that we just released some BIG news and our new project has finally launched! Our new podcast called Marketing Home, Marketing You is now available for all you awesome peeps to dive into. Our CEO, Barbara Savona, being the lifelong learner that she is, launched this podcast out of a passion for creating content that is easy to consume while still being jammed packed with education and value for the listeners. This podcast was born out of a desire to create a space where all housing professionals can come and discuss all things marketing, business growth, and career development. Seriously, ALL housing professionals - multifamily, student housing, senior housing, affordable, brokerage, real estate. 

The new year is coming up and if you’re anything like me, it has you looking back at the year and reflecting on what went well and what went…not so well. When you’re in that state of reflection, don’t let it pass without taking the time to use that information to your advantage. At Sprout, we use the KISS method to reflect on things we’ve done to see how we can improve the next time around. What we love so much about this method is that it doesn’t take long to complete and once it’s implemented, you’re able to see real, positive changes. All you have to do is reflect on the event or situation and think about what you want to Keep, what you want to Improve on, what you want to Stop doing, and what you want to Start doing.

Outreach is NOT walking in somewhere and leaving flyers. This is about building relationships and being a force to be reckoned with. It's not just what's in it for us as the apartment community, but what's in it for this potential business if they partner with us, And that's what a win-win partnership is about.