Riverstone Residential Group Launches Robust Web Platform for Owners and Properties Nationwide

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 23, 2011

Riverstone Residential Group, one of the largest privately-owned, third-party multifamily apartment management companies in the United States, announces the launch of a new, robust Web platform for owners and nationwide properties. The Riverstone Web Platform, resulting from an aggregation of partnerships with industry leading suppliers in their area of expertise, provides a seamless, beginning-to-end, online leasing system with real-time availability and screening, and paperless lease execution and document storage.

In addition, the Riverstone Web Platform offers clients customizable Web site packages to address the owners' unique property marketing and branding needs and maximize their online presence to drive qualified traffic and leasing. The Web site packages include prospect, resident, and mobile portals with related features and technologies that provide easy user experiences and transactional interfaces to better service Riverstone prospects and residents. Moreover, the sites provide a single point of interaction through the entire resident lifecycle.

"We are thrilled to introduce a new Web Platform to our clients and provide more opportunities for prospects and residents to do business with us online," said Katie Fleischer, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Riverstone. "This beginning-to-end leasing solution allows prospective residents to go through the entire leasing process from apartment home selection to lease execution with the added benefit of accounting system integration and streamlined paperwork for our on-site property managers."

"Additionally, each of our managed properties has its own unique identity and brand, and, ideally, should be marketed and optimized as such. As third-party property managers, we want our clients and their properties to benefit from the large traffic volume coming to RiverstoneRes.com, but in a way that promotes each property's brand, not our corporate brand. The new Riverstone Web Platform allows us to match the colors, textures, messaging, services, and market segmentation distinctive to each property and their local area," continued Fleischer.

To capture and engage prospective residents, the prospect portal includes availability, pricing, online application, payment, real-time credit screening, paperless online lease execution, and document storage. A resident portal, with Riverstone's custom landing page design and layout, allows residents to conveniently manage their rent payments and contact information, connect utilities, sign up for resident insurance, and manage and personalize their own portal profiles. The mobile portal, with browsing capabilities provides property information for both prospects and residents in a simplified format compatible with mobile browsers.

The integrated Riverstone Web Platform has a custom design layout that incorporates call-to-action buttons and social connections on every page within the individual property sites to give users every opportunity to share property information with their social network or transact with Riverstone online whether it is paying rent, checking availability, applying for an apartment, or submitting an online maintenance request. Moreover, the Riverstone Web Platform was designed to offer solid search engine optimization (SEO) practices to ensure that the properties have many opportunities to incorporate optimized site content to make their respective sites more visible on search engines, thereby increasing the property's organic rankings and leads.

"At Riverstone, we are proactive in understanding and implementing marketing strategies and online technology to meet and exceed prospective and current resident needs at our properties," said Terry Danner, President of Riverstone. "Many companies talk about their integrated Web technologies and comprehensive solutions, however, upon close review, these offerings exaggerate the seamless integration capabilities that they claim."

"Bottom line, we wanted to bring our various trusted technology partners together to develop a complete platform that benefits owners by driving additional traffic to their sites, from both prospects and residents, and then make doing business with Riverstone extremely convenient for our prospects and residents," said Danner.

Riverstone has already begun transitioning properties to the new Riverstone Web Platform.

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