Comments on: UDR Releases Apartment Finder App for iPhones/ iPod Touch http://www.mobilewhack.com/udr-releases-apartment-finder-app-for-iphones-ipod-touch/ All The Latest Cell Phone, Gadget and Tech News Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:58:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Apartments.com Launches App at the Apple App Store - Specs, reviews and prices. http://www.mobilewhack.com/udr-releases-apartment-finder-app-for-iphones-ipod-touch/#comment-34363 Apartments.com Launches App at the Apple App Store - Specs, reviews and prices. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:24:17 +0000 http://www.mobilewhack.com/?p=33016#comment-34363 [...] month, we had posted something about UDR releasing an apartment finder to help match seekers with available apartments via the iPhone. Now, Apartments.com releases their [...] [...] month, we had posted something about UDR releasing an apartment finder to help match seekers with available apartments via the iPhone. Now, Apartments.com releases their [...]

]]> By: Cathy Bixby http://www.mobilewhack.com/udr-releases-apartment-finder-app-for-iphones-ipod-touch/#comment-31376 Cathy Bixby Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:14:39 +0000 http://www.mobilewhack.com/?p=33016#comment-31376 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. Bad Biz Finder 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.

Bad Biz Finder

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