6/2/10: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

E&S Ring's Ryan Schnobrich on E-Payments

PropertyBridge E-Payments Help E&S Ring Management Corp.  grow business by 20% without increasing staff. 

5/11/10: CBS 13

Stolen Rent

David Pritchard says in February, he did what he does every month; paid his rent on time by dropping a money order through this mail slot at the office of his apartment complex.

5/10/10: Multi-Housing News

Pushing Paperless Rent Payment

Residents are slow to adopt, but new options continue to be rolled out as education efforts are stepped up.

2/11/10: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

On the Radar: Nine Intriguing Multifamily Tech News Announcements of 2010

The start of the year saw a plethora of multifamily technology announcements.

2/10/10: Multi-Housing News

Resident Sweepstakes Program Encourages Residents to Pay Rent Electronically

PropertyBridge, Inc. has announced the winner of its $10,000 Resident Sweepstakes program.

2/3/10: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Bank of America Enters Electronic Rent Payment Arena

Agreement with PropertyBridge provides e-payments functionality to multifamily account holders.

November 2009: UNITS

An Instantaneous Pay Off

Vendors of electronic rent payment platforms are offering more types of payments and greater integration with management software so that rent checks don't bounce - they click.

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11/16/09: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Ditch the Checks

If you think offering electronic rent payments only helps you and your residents, then you've forgotten about Mother Nature.

September 2009: Multihousing Professional

The Business of Fraud

Fraud is just one downside to accepting money orders as payment for rent.

8/3/09: Multi-Housing News

2009 Technology Choice Awards
PropertyBridge is selected by Multi-Housing News readers as a winner in the resident payment systems category.

6/10/09: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Contests Fuel Adoption of Multifamily Online Services
Move over, Ed McMahon, there’re some new sweepstakes in town.

6/3/09: Multi-Housing News

PropertyBridge Announces Winners of Contest Held to Promote Online Rental Payments
PropertyBridge Inc, has announced the results of its 2009 Community Contest, a marketing promotion for community managers that was held from February to April 30, 2009.

6/1/09: Multi-Housing News

Money Matters
Effective resident payment technologies do more than just get money in the door.

5/19/09: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Easy Pay
Multifamily embraces virtual systems to secure rents in tough times even as usage of credit cards for payments remains sporadic among residents.

Spring 2009: MFE (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Small But Mighty
Middle market players, which own the majority of U.S. apartments, right size technology to fit their needs and do more with less.

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March 2009: UNITS

Swiping Rent
With many credit card companies touting free airline miles, points, or cash back with purchases, pulling out a platinum card at the cash register can have credit card users dreaming of freebies.

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3/26/09: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Multifamily Embraces Virtual Systems to Secure Rents in Tough Times
Over the past year, Dan Ross has seen the number of residents using credit cards for rent payment jump from 5 percent to 20 percent across his firm's urban infill apartment properties in Indiana and Ohio.

2/13/09: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Show Me the Money
What do you do after sponsoring a $20,000 resident e-payment sweepstakes to promote electronic rent payments across hundreds of multifamily properties?

2/13/09: Multi-Housing News

PropertyBridge Launches Contest to Encourage Use of Automated Payment System
“We hear from clients that they are feeling the pinch in this economy," Summer Palma, marketing manager for PropertyBridge, tells MHN.

1/1/09: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Technology - I Will Squeeze Every Dollar Out of My Tech Investments
Listen to PropertyBridge Vice President Jason Gardner talk tech strategies for 2009, and you'd swear he was an apartment owner.

10/9/08: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Easy Money
Who says paying rent doesn't build equity? Not Kyle Williams, the winner of $20,000 in Oakland, California-based PropertyBridge's 2008 Resident Sweepstakes.

8/20/08: Multi-Housing News

PropertyBridge Announces Rental Payment Integration with Yardi Systems
PropertyBridge Inc.’s payments platform is now fully integrated with Yardi Systems for the purposes of integrating its electronic payment services with Yardi’s property management system.

8/14/08: MFE Online (MultiFamily Executive Magazine)

Integration Nation
Talk about strategic alignment. In a move that opens its rent payment solutions platform to a large, tech-savvy multifamily market, Oakland, Calif.-based PropertyBridge has successfully integrated with Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Yardi under the MITS Residential Transactions 2.0 Standard.

8/13/08: Multi-Housing News

2008 Technology Choice Winners
PropertyBridge is selected by Multi-Housing News readers as a winner in the resident payment systems category.

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.

5/19/08: Glenbrook

Field Report From NACHA's Payments 2008 Conference
PropertyBridge featured in Glenbrook's NACHA Payments 2008 Report by Allen Weinberg.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

9/28/07: American Banker

Viewpoint: Why Now's a Great Time to Court the Unscored
The subprime mortgage meltdown continues to cause financial ruin for both consumers and lenders.

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9/14/07: American Banker

MoneyGram, Start-Up Eye E-Payments for Housing
Two developments in payment systems could make it easier for consumers to make their rent or mortgage payments electronically, while streamlining payment processing for property managers and mortgage banks.

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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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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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