5/21/08: Multi-Housing News
PropertyBridge Launches New Edition of Automated Payment Product
PropertyBridge recently launched a new edition of its Payments Platform. This version will offer new features, making the electronic payment service more user-friendly, the company says. |
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4/1/08: MFE (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)
The 'E' in Payment: More Residents Pay Rent With Credit Cards
Some day soon, shopping lists across the country will read: Buy 1 dozen eggs, pick up prescriptions, and pay rent. |
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2/5/08: Multi-Housing News
PropertyBridge Launches Sweepstakes Program
PropertyBridge is launching a national sweepstakes program to promote the use of electronic payments by renters in the U.S. |
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12/3/07: Multi-Housing News
Forecast: Looking Ahead to 2008 and Beyond
Increasingly, multi-housing technology will be set to the demands of the younger generations who take technology for granted and expect the most up-to-date functions. What does technology hold for the multi-housing industry in 2008 and beyond? |
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12/3/07: Multi-Housing News
Top Property Management Software Providers
There are many high-performing suppliers of property management software in the multi-housing market. This directory, compiled annually by Multi-Housing News, is designed to simplify the selection process. |
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11/2/07: Multi-Housing News
Tech Report: Online Rent Payment Comes of Age
Why would property managers automate their rent collection to enable residents to pay rent over the Internet? The benefits of converting to an electronic rent payment system include a reduction in processing costs and time—checks no longer need to be driven to the bank—and faster, even next-day, availability of funds deposited. |
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9/14/07: East Bay Business Times
MoneyGram to acquire Oakland startup
MoneyGram International Inc. will acquire PropertyBridge Inc., the Oakland startup that provides electronic payment services to residential rental-property management firms nationally. |
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9/13/07: Multi-Housing News
MoneyGram Purchases Rent Payment Services Company
Global payment services company MoneyGram International Inc., based in Minneapolis, has reached an agreement to acquire Oakland, Calif.-based PropertyBridge Inc., a provider of electronic payment services for the apartment industry. |
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9/1/07: Multi-Housing News
Safeguarding Residents in the Age of Identity Theft
Identity theft has become one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S., affecting over 10 million people annually and costing consumers and businesses an estimated $53 billion annually, according to a 2003 study by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). |
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8/13/07: Multi-Housing News
2007 Technology Choice Award Winners
It is with tremendous pride and pleasure that Multi-Housing News presents to you the 2007 winners of our Technology Choice Awards, recognizing those firms that stand apart from the rest and deserve to be celebrated as the industry's very best.
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7/3/07: Multi-Housing News
PropertyBridge, Minol USA Reach Strategic Relationship and Joint Marketing Agreement
PropertyBridge Inc. and Minol USA
announced a strategic relationship and joint marketing agreement at the 2007 National Apartment Association (NAA) Education Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas. |
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6/29/07: East Bay Business Times
Real Estate Entrepreneur: Ryan Gilbert, PropertyBridge
Ryan Gilbert dreams of making paper rent checks - and the landlord's monthly scramble to get them - go the way of the dinosaur.
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6/14/07: Digital Transactions
PropertyBridge Brings PIN-less Debit to Residential Rent
PropertyBridge Inc., which handles electronic rent payments on behalf of property managers, plans to launch next month a recurring PIN-less debit option. |
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6/1/07: Digital Transactions
Rent Week Will Never be the Same [page 36]
Crossing the renter-landlord payment gap isn't easy, but fast-growing ISO PropertyBridge is winning over property managers with a system that allows acceptance of payment types ranging from cards to ACH to Check 21. |
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5/15/07: Apartment Finance Today
Taking Back Rent Week
Automating rent collection allows property managers to shed data entry and focus on customer service.
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4/27/07: Multi-Housing News
TAA Selects PropertyBridge as Electronic Payments Service Provider
PropertyBridge, Inc. has been selected by the Texas Apartment Association (TAA) as its exclusive multifamily-specific payments service provider.
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4/1/07: Sacramento Valley Rental Housing
Dollars and Sense: Boosting Your Bottom Line with Electronic Payments
The benefits of implementing a centralized, electronic rent collection system is well worth the costs.
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1/23/07: Multifamilypro
Integrating for Success: Domin-8 and PropertyBridge Join Forces
Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions and PropertyBridge announced a partnership to integrate PropertyBridge's electronic payments technology with Domin-8's property management software.
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12/15/06: Multi-Housing News
Tech Report: Forecast 2007
Multi-Housing News asked several insiders to share insights into expected advancements in their respective fields for 2007. Here they address the future of property management, security and construction, as well as resident screening and resident payment services.
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11/7/06: Multi-Housing News
Electronic Payments: A Centralized Approach to an Evolutionary Issue
We are surrounded by industries that have adopted an automated data methodology for financial transactions. Why has the multifamily industry been slow to adopt these types of systems when the value and benefit is real and immediate?
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11/1/06: Multi-Housing News
PropertyBridge, Domin-8 Form Partnership to Increase Rent Payment Options
PropertyBridge and Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions have formed a partnership to integrate the companies' software and technology.
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10/1/06: Multifamily Trends
Five Misconceptions about Electronic Payments
Multifamily communities of all sizes can streamline rent collection and can provide an additional benefit to their residents by moving to an electronic payment system.
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9/8/06: East Bay Business Times
Up Close: Ryan Gilbert
Ryan Gilbert was a child when he learned all about "rent week" - the time around the first of every month when people the world over make their mortgage and rent payments.
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7/15/06: Multifamilypro
Payment Options - Amenities Residents Want
Alliance Residential Co. chose PropertyBridge to provide payment services for residents of its 36,000 unit portfolio.
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7/15/06: Multifamilypro
Buck Up and Wear It
Three industry leaders, PropertyBridge, Ellipse Group and ResidentCheck, rallied together for a breast cancer campaign.
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7/1/06: National Real Estate Investor
Electronic Payments Accelerate Cash Flow
Menu of payment options helps apartment owners boost the bottom line.
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5/12/06: IT Business Edge
PropertyBridge Achieves PCI Compliance
Property management payment services provider PropertyBridge has successfully completed a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard audit, according to this announcement. The company is the first in its market to achieve Level 1 compliance.
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5/1/06: Apartment Finance Today
Making E-payments Pay
At AIMCO, the key to getting the most from electronic payment technology is to offer residents many options, make the system easy to use, and free up leasing agents from doing accounting work.
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4/15/06: MFE (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)
Who's Got the Check?
It should be easier than ever to run your client's property, given the deluge of Web-based property management software that's come on the market in recent years. The problem is, somebody's still got to pay for it, and owners aren't always eager to open their corporate wallets. |
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4/7/06: San Francisco Business Times
The New Money Game
How growing a business has changed with a shift in the financial landscape.
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4/1/06: Multihousing Professional
Multihousing's Largest Payment Services Provider Processes its Biggest Payment Yet
PropertyBridge came on the scene later than most. Laying the proper groundwork with strategic partners proved to be key to their defining moment and eventual move to the top.
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3/30/06: Associated Press
Paying Rent With Your Plastic
Some landlords, credit card companies and renters are wondering why we can buy groceries, casino chips and cab fare with a credit card or debit card, but can't pay our rent with plastic.
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3/15/06: UNITS Magazine
Buyer Beware: Online Payment Solutions Explained
On the surface, the online collection of rent and related service payments is a win-win situation for property managers and their residents. Lurking just below the surface, however, are several significant issues that can drown the best intentioned of initiatives.
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2/15/06: MFE (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)
Closing the Pipeline
It's one of the most debated questions by apartment owners who offer credit card rental payments: to charge or not to charge residents a convenience fee. |
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2/2/06: KCBS
Press Conference with Mayor Jerry Brown
Bob Melrose (KCBS) reports on the press conference with Mayor Jerry Brown, PropertyBridge and Claremont Creek.
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2/2/06: Contra Costa Times
East Bay Biz Buzz
Oakland-based PropertyBridge Inc., a maker of rent-payment software, raised $2 million in Series A financing from Claremont Creek Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in early stage technology companies.
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2/1/06: Multi-Housing News
Electronic Payment Systems for the Apt. Industry
The tech revolution has finally reached the payments industry. But until recently no practical solution existed for property managers to convert their rent to electronic and online transactions.
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2/1/06: San Francisco Business Times
Oakland's Claremont Creek Ventures Makes First Investment
Claremont Creek Ventures, a new venture firm based in downtown Oakland, said Wednesday that $2 million was invested in PropertyBridge Inc. of Oakland, which provides electronic rent payments and other lease-related transactions over the Internet.
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2/1/06: CBS5.com
Jerry Brown Honors First Venture Capital Deal by Oakland-based Firm
At a news conference in Brown's office, Oakland-based Claremont Creek Ventures, a new venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology companies, announced that it is providing $2 million in funding for PropertyBridge Inc., an Oakland-based company that enables electronic rent payments and other lease-related transactions over the Internet.
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2/1/06: San Francisco Sentinel
Jerry Brown Honors First Venture Capital Deal by Oakland-based Firm
Oakland-based Claremont Creek Ventures, a new venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology companies, announced that it is providing $2 million in funding for PropertyBridge Inc., an Oakland-based company that enables electronic rent payments and other lease-related transactions over the Internet.
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6/05: UNITS Magazine
Onsite Solutions: Amenities Residents Will Literally Pay For
Alternatives for rental payments are offered by PropertyBridge, an Oakland, Calif.-based payment services provider, who recently announced a strategic alliance with Visa USA to market its datadriven, online rent-payment service for residential properties.
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5/05: Transaction Trends
Card Rentals, Penetrating the Property Management Marketplace PropertyBridge allows property managers to collect rents using several types of electronic payments, while centralizing all reporting on a common platform.
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5/11/05: Wall Street Journal
Credit-Card Firms Look to Get Foot in the Door
Credit-card companies have long pushed to get landlords to accept their cards for rent, and recently they have made it easier for owners and managers to accept cards.
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