365 Connect Launches Leasing Center / Resident Portal at Breakers at Windmill Lakes

NEW ORLEANS, LA - 365 Connect today announced the launching of its 365 Channel Platform bundled array of services for Breakers at Windmill Lakes, a 324-unit garden apartment community in Houston, Texas. The package includes 365 Online Leasing Center, 365 Mobile Leasing Center and 365 Resident Services Portal, all of which are implemented seamlessly, thereby giving the Breakers management team the ultimate online marketing machine coupled with user-friendly, online resident services. The powerful 365 Channel Platform further cements 365 Connect’s role as the leader in leading edge, creative, Web-based technology solutions for the multifamily industry.

The 365 Online Leasing Center for Breakers at Windmill Lakes 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 for Breakers necessary to attract new residents can be updated by the managers and uploaded in real time to the site. But it does not stop there. The Breakers data is also posted automatically to the 24/7 Leasing Center at MultifamilyBiz.com. There, the community’s leasing profile is pushed across the Internet through multiple data feeds generated by the 365 Connect Networks. The Breakers at Windmill Lakes 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, Trovit.com, Enormo.com, RentJungle.com, RealEstate.Overstock.com and Tenant.com.

To meet the demands of a highly mobile society, the Online Leasing Center fully integrates with the 365 Mobile Leasing Center, delivering a mobile version of the Breakers at Windmill Lakes Website that works across SmartPhone Platforms. The Mobile Leasing Center works on the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry SmartPhones, Android, Palm Pre and Windows Mobile.

In an entirely different dimension, the Breakers at Windmill Lakes 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 Breakers 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 the Breakers at Windmill Lakes community is being felt across the country and around the world.

With the 365 Resident Services Portal, the staff at Breakers at Windmill Lakes 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 all of the valuable educational and self-improvement videos available on 365 Connect’s LearnTV, or just be entertained.

Breakers at Windmill Lakes is managed by Kaplan Management Co Inc, which is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Kaplan Management has deployed the 365 Online Leasing Center, 365 Mobile 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 Breakers at Windmill Lakes: Breakers at Windmill Lakes is a 324-unit garden apartment community located in Houston, Texas. It features spacious one and two bedroom apartment units ranging from 669 to 1,050 square feet, all in close proximity to shopping, restaurants, recreation and services. Residents enjoy such amenities as scenic lake views with boat launch, fitness and business center, picnic areas and resort style waterfall swimming pool. For more information visit: www.BreakersHouston.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