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UDR Releases Apartment Finder App for iPhones/ iPod Touch
Author: Brian17 Jun
Moving or relocating can be delayed at times, normally because you don’t have a suitable place to move to. But that may soon be over as UDR, Inc. makes finding an apartment easier with their Apartment Search App that is now available at the Apple iStore.
Search among the archives of apartments available, have it reserved and check it out when you can. Place a hold and schedule when you can check it out and if you like it, get it. It is that simple!
In addition to UDR’s iPhone apartment search app, UDR has a WAP and iPhone compatible website. UDR’s mobile users during the December, 2008 to May, 2009 timeframe has shown that over 15,000 mobile apartment prospects are searching for apartments representing 34 countries.
The top countries looking for an apartment either on UDR’s WAP website or UDR’s iPhone compatible website are the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Japan.
Features:
- Search for UDR apartment locations by State, region, city, price, bedrooms and bathrooms
- UDR apartment rental locations in WA, OR, CA, AZ, TX, FL, TN, VA, MD, DC
- GPS activation – the apartment search app knows where the user is located
- Put the apartment properties into your “Favorites” folder for easier access later on
- A large assortment of apartment photos, amenities and four-color floor plans
- Robust mapping and directions to favorite apartment communities
- Reserve and place a hold on an apartment anytime and anywhere around the world
- Check apartment pricing that is updated daily
- Ability to call any apartment location 24/7
The app is free to use and can be downloaded here.
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UDR Spends Shareholder Money on GPS System When Its Apts Are Falling Apart
June 16, 2009 — badbizfinder | Edit
If you’re a proud NYSE:UDR Shareholder and you believe the UDR Executive Team has both oars in the water – you might want to rethink that theory. We highly recommend that you dump your stock as soon as humanly possible. UDR is circling the drain and if today’s announcement doesn’t convince you – well, sorry, but you deserve what you get.
Do you think your money (floated to UDR by way of your investment in that company) is best spent on developing and marketing an iPhone GPS system to “attract and retain tenants” when its properties are not even habitable, far from being in compliance with state law and consumer protection agency requirements like the health department, and are falling apart around the tenants that wished they had never moved in?
Why would UDR spend millions of your money launching an electronic mapping device to help tenants find a UDR property near them when as soon as they find their way there – they’re going to find a very undesirable place to live?
Even if at the outset the property seems okay, it won’t take long for new tenants to feel the sting of hidden fees, oppressive and illegal rules, and delapidated apartment units that at first were all sparkly clean and freshly painted but that turn into an apartment from hell.
UDR says one of its motivations for launching the iPhone GPS System is to “retain” tenants. We don’t get that at all. Once a tenant signs a lease, how does a GPS system help UDR retain that tenant besides maybe helping them find their way home to pay the rent?
Shouldn’t UDR be spending YOUR money on ….
* Updating its leases and getting into compliance with state rules and regulations?
* Keeping the rats from digging through the apartments walls?
* Preventing water and sewage from spilling down the wall from the upstairs tenant’s bad plumbing?
* Upgrading security in its properties so that the present epidemic of personal property theft as well as vehicle and unit intrusion is eliminated?
* Making sure each apartment unit has working heat and water?
* Following up on the recommendations of Vector Control to get the mosquitoes and fleas problem under control?
* And hundreds of other complaints we’ve received from our class-action members?
And at the end of the release, UDR has to nerve to state that they are in the process of developing 4,000 MORE apartments on top of the mess they already have! Wow. We’re just asking that you think it through and alerting you to the inevitable.
First they spent all this money on modernizing their website so they could plaster the media with the honorable mention they received from the Webby Awards along with the other 1500 honorable mentions. And now they are spending money on a GPS device.
That’s like putting on a gorgeous tailored suit jacket over a beer-stained wife-beater t-shirt and going to an important job interview.
UDR is a beer-stained wife-beater t-shirt company and and no amount of fancy technology is going to change that fact. They’re going to have to change their shirt if they want the job.
Tenants are not stupid and they’re gotten a lot smarter since we came on the scene. And since we’re not going anywhere – it’s not likely that UDR is going to make any inroads into the California rental market or any other market for that matter.
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