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“High Performance Leasing”

Upcoming Events

7/18 11:30

General Membership

Meeting

Crave - West Glen

7/19 4:00

Vendors Council

Chicken Coop

West Des Moines

9/20

CIAA Trade Show

Sheraton Hotel

West Des Moines

“Our Profit is

Your Success”July 2007

Over 50 apartment professionals at-tended the enthusiastic seminar given byStephen Cox at the Funny Bone in WestGlen Town Center. Steve traveled from

Dallas and was very impressed with thetalent and enthusiasm our group showed.He went over “LEASING BASICS” inhis own unique format. It was easy totell Steve came from a theatrical back-ground; he could really work a crowd! He also traveled to Iowa City where he inter-acted with a group of 31 apartment professionals. Stephen Cox was sponsored by theCentral Iowa Apartment Alliance and the Apartment Finder.

Inside:

• Committee News

• CIAA on the Web

• Letter from the

President

•July 18th MeetingRegistration

• Vendor Members

and Spotlight

• Vendor Meeting

News

• New Members

• Promotions and

Postings

• Golf Outing High-

lights

PRESIDENT

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR

Melissa Johnson, Olde English Village

VICE PRESIDENT

LEGISLATIVE CHAIR

Rick Koontz, Signature Place

TREASURER

EDUCATION CHAIR

Mary Spain, Apartment Finder

SECRETARYJennifer O’Brien Konior, TAB Properties

VENDOR COUNCIL CO-CHAIRSTom Newton, Gorman Roofing

Rocky Sposato, Tub Wrx

PUBLIC RELATIONS CHAIR Deb Lanpher, R & R Realty

TRADE SHOW COMMITTEE CHAIR Michelle Ogden, Timberland Partners

CIAA Board of Directors

September 20th is the date for the CIAA Annual Trade Show. The event will be held atthe Sheraton Hotel at 50th & University in West Des Moines. Mark your calendars...thisis one you won’t want to miss! There will be food, prizes, refreshments, fun, and mostimportantly...VENDORS! Last year we saw over 100 apartment personnel at the event.Everyone on your staff should attend. This is an ideal opportunity to network, shareideas, and find solutions to any number of problems we face in our daily operations.This year promises to be bigger and better than ever. Save the date, and watch for moreexciting details coming soon!

Trade Show Coming in September!

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CIAA on the Web

Largely, renters only votewhen it comes to the

presidential level, when

there are candidates they

feel they can relate to

The CAM class has wrapped up and books are being shipped to a grader at the time of this newsletter. Six individuals completed theircoursework. We look forward to celebrating with them upon completion of their books being graded and returned. Thank you very muchto all those vendors that sponsored their classes: Furniture Options, Apartment Finder, Tub Wrx Inc, and DeWitt Painting. A special thanksto our volunteer instructors Melissa Johnson, Rick Koontz, Mary Spain, Bill Armstrong, Michelle Ogden, and Glen Waterhouse.

COMMITTEE MEETING

The education committee will be meeting on July 10th to plan their next education program for our members. The last survey indicatedmembers were evenly split over their desire for training of maintenance and leasing personnel. Consideration is being made for both areas.Look for updates. Members of the Education Committee are Lori Young of R & R Realty and Heather Benton of Walters Companies.

Education Committee

Legislative CommitteeThe Legislative Committee is starting to compile CIAA’s list of legislative priorities for the upcoming session, and they would like to hear

from you. Please e-mail your ideas to Rick at [email protected]. They will be sending out an email to all members to announce themeeting date and time.

A voter registration drive will be planned to educate renters on issues that impact them, and to encourage them to become more active in the political process. Renters are less like to vote in local elections, and especially on referendum votes that would greatly impact them, such astax relief that would apply only to homeowners. Raising awareness of local and state legislators’ positions on issues that affect renters will

be a focus of the Legislative Committee.

Issues that will likely be reintroduced in the next legislative session will be a primary focus of the committee. One of our goals is to get badlanguage revised before bills are introduced. We have a good start based on legislation that was introduced last session which failed to pass,

but is sure to be reintroduced in the next session.

The committee will begin interviewing lobbyists soon. Recommendations will be presented to the Board of Directors who will make thefinal decision on a lobbyist. We hope to have a lobbyist in place by October.

Membership CommitteeThe membership committee is in need of a chair. Anyone that wants to be involved in this fast growing organization and work withyour peers to build our membership base should call Melissa Johnson 223-1010.

COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS



Letter From the President

Website: www.ciaahq.org

Register for July 18th Membership Meeting!The July General Membership meeting will be held at Crave at West Glen Town Center in West Des Moines at 11:30.

This will be a self-pay lunch meeting. Cost of lunch is $16.00 and includes beverage, tax, and gratuity.

This is one your maintenance team will want to attend. Wendell Strong, along with Dave Hein of Stitzell Electric will

review some electrical and lighting basics, including how to audit your energy use and save money in the process!

Use this form to register no later than July 16 at noon. Make your lunch selections below and fax to (515) 327-9104.

Company Phone

Name

Name

Lunch Items:

• Mandarin Orange Salad - Spinach & romaine w/ grilled chicken topped with mandarin ginger dressing Qty.______

• Penne with Red Sauce - Penne pasta with Italian seasoned beef and tomato basil red sauce Qty.

• Chicken Ranch Sandwich - 1/2 chicken breast w/ Swiss cheese, bacon, and homemade ranch sauce Qty.

• Smoked Trio Panini - Smoked turkey, bacon, and smoked Swiss cheese on pumpernickel w/ fries Qty._______

Wow it has been busy! I hope everyone is doing well and leasing lots; I know we are keeping the vendors busy.Despite all the normal hubbub of activity around our offices, we still managed to have some fun this last month.I hope everyone that turned out for the golf outing last June 8th at Blank Park Golf Course had a wonderful time.Despite my pathetic driving skills (ball, not the cart - they wouldn’t let me), I got to catch up and have a ball withsome of my apartment peers and vendor friends. And I got a pretty nice tan. Sorry no one won the car this year,

but I hear one of our golfers got super close, so maybe next year! Thanks for coming out to support your Asso-

ciation and especially Thanks to Rocky Sposato of TubWrx, our Golf Committee Chairperson, for getting it allorganized! The Committee for next year is already forming, so let us know if you’d like to help shape nextyear’s tournament.

We also had a wonderfully energetic group for Stephen Cox, “The Leasing Coach” at the Funny Bone on June18th. He gave us some wonderful tips, reminders, and even some new tools to help us do our jobs even better.

We were very lucky to be able to get him in Iowa, thanks to the Apartment Finder, and hope he can come back soon and give us more point-ers.

Our newest CAM (Certified Apartment Manager) class has finished with their training modules and now is trying to wrap up their final projects. Having done one myself, bear with those trying to finish—it’s a lot of work. We’re very proud of our new class and expect to beable to honor their achievement at one of our upcoming meeting/events.

It has also been a busy time with new memberships in the CIAA. We have grown to representing nearly 7000 rental units within Iowa - in just 3 months! Thank you all so much for your support and acknowledgment that an active Association is important to you as a professional

member of our industry. We will keep bringing you the best information, speakers, and events to help you stay ahead of the game. Thanksagain and happy leasing!

Melissa Johnson, CAM, ARM ®

Olde English Village Apartments

President, Central Iowa Apartment Alliance



A+ Lawn and Landscaping

Apartment Finder Cort/Instant Furniture Rental

Dewitt Painting

First Advantage SafeRent

Furniture Options

Gorman Roofing Services

Hawkeye Legal Services

Jetz Service Co.

Qwest

Sherwin Williams CarpetState Farm - Glenn Waterhouse

Stew Hansen’s Dodge City-Jeep

Stitzell Electric

Sudzy’s Carpet Cleaning

Tenant Data

Transworld Systems

Tub Wrx

Vendor Members’ websites and

contacts are linked through our

website!

To Become A Vendor Member con-

tact Tom Newton 515-883-0838

[email protected]

Your vendor members make

many CIAA events possible.

Please support them!

CIAA Vendor Members

Vendor Spotlight - Furniture OptionsFurniture Options offers complete home furnishings to people in transition through standard rental, instant pur-chase, or quick ownership. They have professional decorators who can assist you and make sure you get ex-actly what you want, delivered the next business day. Their flexible agreements include rental and purchaseoptions. The options are yours at Furniture Options. Call April at 251-4100. Be sure to ask about her FREEleasing seminar on July 11th at their office. It is perfect for beginners and includes breakfast and lunch.

Looking For New Vendor MembersManagers, get your vendors to help make you eligible for a drawing for a $100.00 Gift Certificate to JordanCreek Mall. Encourage new vendors to attend the July 19th Vendor Meting at the Chicken Coop in West DesMoines at 4:00 p.m. Have them bring this form and for each form we receive on your behalf an entry will bemade into the drawing with your name on it. Print out this form and encourage them to attend. They should be supporting your organization. Call Mary Spain with questions at 327-0606.

Community Name

Manager Name Phone#

Vendor Name Phone#

Drawing will be held that night!



proficient with computer functions. Ap- ply in person or e-mail resume to MelissaJohnson at [email protected]

Professional Property Manager is lookingto relocate to Des Moines. Four yearsexperience. Currently managing over 500units in Eastern Iowa. In process of ac-quiring ARM certification. Has MSWwith concentration in Community Devel-opment. Please contact Gail Cudworth,Eastern Iowa Apartment Finder Publisherfor contact information. 515-266-0993

Bonnie Calkins has joined TAB Proper-ties as Community Manager at Village atWestchester.

Rebecca Maxwell is the new LeasingConsultant at Westchester Square, TAB

Properties.Village at Westchester, TAB Propertieswelcomes Nicole Tuttle as a LeasingConsultant.

Woody Trigg has joined TAB Propertiesas a maintenance technician.

Russ Wilson has joined the maintenanceteam at Signature Place Apartments.

Congratulations to Don Stephens of TAB Properties. He was recently pro-moted to Lead Maintenance Supervisor of Westchester Square and Village atWestchester.

HELP WANTEDTimberland Pointe has an opening for Assistant Manager. Forward resume toSara Kems at

[email protected]

Regency Woods, a Peterson Company, isaccepting applications for Assistant Man-ager. Experience Preferred. Must be

Promotions, Positions and Postings

Lyn Crossing

Mansions at Jordan Creek

Oak Crossing

Oakland Pointe

Oakland Pointe StorageOakview Terrace

Park Place

Parkside

Pleasantview

Risser Investments

Southbrook Green

Southtown Terrace

Spruce Pointe

Sun Prairie

Sunburst Apartments

PROPERTIES

Beaverdale Apartments

Canterbury Park

Chateau

Conlin Properties CorporateCountry Club Village

Cross Creek

Deer Ridge Apartments

Diversified Management Associates

Douglas Woods Apartments

Fort South

Foxboro

Grand Colony Apartments

Hubbell Towers

Lakeview Apartments

The Fountains

The Kirkwood

Triple Crown

Urban Green

Valley ForgeVenbury Trail

Vista Court

Wellington

Windfield West

Winwood

VENDORS

First Advantage SafeRent

Stew Hansen’s Dodge City-Jeep

Welcome New Members!

INTERESTING WEB TIDBITS ABOUT RENTERS

“Voters who live in owner occupied dwellings have a much higher rate of turnout than do those who rent. Property

owners and renters vote differently and targeting one or the other is becoming an important campaign tool”

“Who cares about renters, they don't vote, the 95% of voters who are homeowners will be supporting the candi-

date who is fighting for them”

“Only property owners were declared eligible to vote on the traffic plan. Homeowners were allotted one vote per

household, while residents of apartment complexes...were not allowed to vote”



FUN I N THE SUN!

Golf OutingThe golf outing was a hit! The winners of the event were Jobe Cooper, Rich Nicklaus, John

Guenther, and John Kilbright. Thanks to all who attended and helped make it a success!

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