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What are best practices in residential & commercial property management?

November 7th, 2011

For my business school project, I would like to create a work flow of the best practices in property management in DC/MD/VA for commercial and residential properties. This would include the steps and form for:
a. taking in a client that is/will be a property owner; and
b. taking in a client that is/will be a property renter.

Trade organizations that I have contacted (BOMA, IREM, and NARPM) do not have any such documentation (or did not want to share with a student). I do not know anyone in the business so I cannot interview a company, as much as I would like to.

Can you help me?
Do you have a website at which I should look?
Do you work in a property management company and are willing to take a few moments for a phone interview?
Do you have a suggestion of whom I could talk to?

thank you.

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What can be done about predatory lending practices in the student loan industry?

March 6th, 2010

More and more students are graduating with loads of debt from “private lenders” (ex. Sallie Mae, Wells Fargo, Xpress Loans) who make loan terms unclear, and repayment plans ambiguous. These loans can rarely be consolidated, have high interest rates, are non-dischargable in bankruptcy, and have very high payments. Congress is realizing that something must be done to alleiviate the burden on the students that fell victim to these lending practices by the banks. What remedies do you think should be allotted these students? How do we fix problems within private lending so students can pay their loans while still maintaining a decent quality of life?