365 Connect Launches Leasing Center and Resident Portal at West Creek at River Oaks

NEW ORLEANS, LA – 365 Connect, the leading edge, web-based, technology platform provider to the multifamily industry, today announced the launching of its 365 Leasing Center and 365 Resident Services Portal package for West Creek at River Oaks, a 574-unit apartment community in Houston, Texas. The garden style property is implementing the two services seamlessly by bundling them within the 365 Channel Platform. In doing so, the West Creek at River Oaks management team acquires the ultimate online marketing machine coupled with user-friendly online services for its residents.

The 365 Leasing Center for the West Creek at River Oaks creates an interactive Internet expansion of its leasing team that operates 24/7 with minimal effort by management and, it never sleeps. All of the critical information on the West Creek at River Oaks’ website necessary to attract new residents can be updated by the managers and uploaded in real time to the West Creek at River Oaks website. But it does not stop there. The West Creek at River Oaks data is also posted automatically to the 24/7 Leasing Center at MultifamilyBiz.com. There, the West Creek at River Oaks leasing profile is pushed across the Internet through multiple data feeds generated by the 365 Connect Networks. The West Creek at River Oaks’ owners and staff can see their community’s leasing information appear in popular, high traffic, apartment listing sites such as Cazoodle.com, RentBits.com, Vast.com, OLX.com, Classifieds.org, Enormo.com, RealEstate.Overstock.com, Trovit.com and Tenant.com.

In an entirely different dimension, the West Creek at River Oaks 365 Leasing Center brings the world of Internet social networking to its residents. The designers at 365 Connect are fully aware that the renters of today are fully immersed in online social networking as a way of life and have integrated that culture into its services. All of the West Creek at River Oaks information posted to the property website and uploaded to the 24/7 Leasing Center is automatically relayed to FaceBook and Twitter. The personal feel of West Creek at River Oaks is being felt across the country and around the world.

With the 365 Resident Services Portal, the West Creek at River Oaks staff has given its residents the ability to interact digitally with the management team, find and locate community resources and access community, educational and self-improvement content. These hard working neighbors can now send service requests, reserve property amenities, set up their utilities and perform a host of tasks without a time-consuming trip to the leasing office. The residents now have more leisure time to take advantage of the all of the valuable educational and self-improvement videos available on 365 Connect’s LearnTV, or just be entertained.

West Creek at River Oaks is managed by Kaplan Management Co Inc, which is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Kaplan Management has deployed the 365 Leasing Center and 365 Resident Services Portal package at a variety of other multifamily properties.

About 365 Connect, LLC: Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, 365 Connect was founded in 2003 by a team of multifamily housing professionals with wide-ranging expertise in real estate development, management and technology. 365 Connect provides web-based technology solutions to the multifamily industry, with a focus on resident and management interaction and doing business in the digital world. Today, 365 Connect is rapidly becoming a leader in web-based multifamily technology platforms with an array of products ranging from online leasing centers and interactive resident platforms to MultifamilyBiz.com, a leading B2B industry portal. More information on 365 Connect businesses and services is available on the Web at: www.365connect.com

About West Creek at River Oaks: West Creek at River Oaks is a 574-unit garden apartment community located in Houston, Texas. It features spacious one, two and three bedroom apartment units ranging from 714 to 2,042 square feet, all in close proximity to shopping, restaurants, recreation and services. Residents enjoy such amenities as a video library, coffee bar, fitness center and resort-style swimming pool. For more information on West Creek at River Oaks visit: www.WestCreekAtRiverOaks.com

About Kaplan Management Company: Kaplan Management Co., Inc. was formed in 1978 to offer fee management services for owners of multi-family properties, shopping centers and office buildings. In 1984, the KMC management portfolio began to grow dramatically. By 1986, the company was fee managing 8,500 multi-family units and 2,500,000 square feet of office and commercial space. Clients included John Hancock Properties, Inc., numerous savings and loans, commercial banks, and several large and small independent owners. Both management and construction services were offered to clients and commercial leasing was out-sourced to local brokers. More information on Kaplan is available at: www.Kapcorp.com