In what’s known as the “largest rental housing trade show in California,” 150-plus multifamily vendors and more than 2,500 rental housing owners will be at the Long Beach Convention Center on Wednesday for the 42nd Annual Rental Housing Expo.
The show, sponsored by Long Beach-based Apartment Association, California Southern Cities, features “one stop shopping” for property owners, managers, real estate agents and investors with a variety of products, services and consultants.
More than 12 seminars and workshops are scheduled. Todd Brisco, 2010 president of the Apartment Association, states: “Being a landlord isn’t about just putting out a ‘for rent’ sign, and being a tenant isn’t just about signing a form and getting a key. Both require working together to make the property a ‘home.’”
In an interview with the Orange County Register last week, Lyon Communities chairman and CEO Frank Suryan Jr. discussed multifamily, which he acknowledged is a “renter’s market, and the company’s newly opened Long Beach community, and gallery421 in downtown Long Beach. “Apartment market tends to behave like a pendulum, moving back and forth between years that favor owners, and years that favor renters,” he said in the interview with the Register. “The last few years have been a renter’s market because of the challenging economy. Over the long-term, the ups and downs even out.”
The Apartment Association is a nonprofit trade association with more than 3,000 members in the 54 cities founded in 1924 in Long Beach. For more information click here.