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Community Development Partners, LLC’s Clients
Earn More than $3 Million in 2005 Vigorous competition among telecommunication companies
provides opportunities for owners of multiple dwelling units
Taking advantage of the highly competitive marketplace, Community Development Partners, LLC (CDP), has developed highly successful strategies that have created new income sources earning more than for its clients in 2005 according to John Houston, CDP Managing Director. CDP clients are owners of multi-unit complexes, builders, property managers and REITs. “We’re on top of the many providers from franchise cable and private cable, satellite, telephone and wireless systems and high speed Internet access to other services who are more than willing to secure long-term contracts from owners,” John Houston said. “These companies are bidding for these contracts and the end result is usually additional income for the owners as well as better services and more technologies for the tenants.” For instance: - CDP negotiated new service agreements between its clients and franchised cable companies providing video and high speed Internet service for more than 6,000 units. These CDP clients realized a more than $2,500,000 return.
- CDP placed more than 1,250 units with DirecTV in 2005, earning these clients more than $310,000 return.
- CDP negotiated new service agreements between its clients and telephone companies covering basic service plus high speed Internet for an additional 2,200 client units. These clients realizing a continuing and growing revenue sharing payments of more than $3,500 per month.
- CDP brokered private cable/telecommunication systems to DirecTV during 2005 covering more than 4,500 units. These clients realize considerable income and growth while improved services and technology has attracted and retained tenants for owners.
“The value of retaining CDP to facilitate these negotiations cannot be over emphasized,” Houston said. “The ever-increasing sophistication of telecommunications technology and the complexity of negotiating service agreements with competing multiple service providers requires the depth of expertise CDP provides.” But CDP not only negotiates the telecommunications agreement on behalf of its clients, it also provides aggressive on-going management of contract compliance. This allows CDP to monitor the financial objectives of the agreement as well as the quality of services provided to ensure maximum performance and the seamless delivery of those services throughout the life of the agreement.
Community Development Partners Position Apartment Owners for Long Term Returns:
Shattering the Myth of Cable Company Perpetual Contracts In today’s competitive apartment marketplace it has become more and more difficult for apartment owners to choose among the many providers offering telecommunication services for television, high speed data, telephone and other services. The pressure intensifies as the increasing level of complexity of telecommunications technology drives up consumer demand for newer, more sophisticated products offered by competing telecommunications providers. Perpetual Cable Company Contracts. But the majority of apartment owners are caught between the opportunities offered by providers of new alternative technologies, and the additional revenues they represent, because of perpetual contracts signed by the first complex owners when the original franchise cable companies initially wired the apartment complex. These long-term contracts automatically renew for successive franchise terms. Although the perpetual contracts are non-exclusive, they effectively block the owner from lucrative exclusive contracts with alternative providers. Paying compensation to apartment owners has never been part of the cable companies business planning. Traditionally, cable companies have only provided financial compensation to owners when there is a viable, contractually competitive challenge. Until recently, such a challenge has not been available allowing cable companies holding perpetual contracts to successfully block apartment owners from offering alternative services and receiving fair financial compensation. In the past, alternative providers such as DirecTV required exclusive provider agreements to ensure financial viability. But the economic realities have changed allowing the reduction in equipment and installation costs. In addition, recent consumer data reveals that the demand for DirecTV has substantially increased year-by-year while cable demand is in steady decline. But the increased demand for DirecTV and the accompanying explosion of unsightly dishes on apartment buildings has created a serious problem for apartment owners. The CDP Solution. Now, Community Development Partners, LLC can assist AACSC apartment owners shatter the myth of cable company perpetual contracts, satisfy their residents demand for DirecTV and rein in the dish problem…all at no cost to the owners. Apartment owners will no longer have to turn away potential residents who want DirecTV. A central DirecTV system can be installed that normally requires only a single 30-inch satellite dish per building. And the apartment owner will receive compensation for every resident that takes the DirecTV service. | Is Your Complex in Compliance with SCAQMD Boiler Standards? Out-of-Compliance Apartment Complex Boiler and Heating Systems Could Mean Huge Fines for Owners Just because you’re not a truck belching clouds of black smoke or an industrial plant pumping tons of pollutants into the atmosphere it doesn’t mean that the aging, inefficient, environmentally challenged boiler and heating systems at your apartment complex haven’t attracted the attention of the SCAQMD. SCAQMD Rule 1146.2 SCAQMD (Southern California Air Quality Management District) regulations going into effect this year and in 2006 impose higher emission standards requiring lower noxious NOX emissions from natural gas-fired large (commercial) water heaters, small (industrial) boilers, and process heaters. This rule, SCAQMD Rule 1146.2 “Emissions of Oxides of Nitrogen from Large Water Heaters and Small Boilers,” applies to units that have a rated heat input starting at 75,000 Btu/hr up to and including 2,000,000 Btu/hr. If your complex, no matter its size, has boiler or hot water heating equipment matching these inputs, your boiler and heating system falls under this regulation and is subject to inspection to ensure SCAQMD compliance. $1,000 to $75,000 Per Day Fines If the aging, inefficient boiler and heating systems installed at your complex aren’t already costing you enough money in energy use and fuel costs, they could also be exposing you to fines of up to $75,000 per day for every day you are out of SCAQMD compliance. Although the SCAQMD are not yet fully enforcing the new regulations, they are serious about pursuing out-of-compliance apartment complexes with acute NOX emissions. The CDP Solution U.S. boiler and heating technology is 40 to 50 years behind state-of-the-art European engineering. To solve this deficiency, Community Development Partners, LLC (CDP) has developed a unique solution aimed at assisting apartment owners to meet the SCAQMD boiler and heating system compliance challenge. The centerpiece of this solution are boiler and heating systems designed by the premiere German engineering and manufacturing company…arguably the best of the best. With more than 6,500 global employees, this company manufactures boiler and heating systems designed to meet or exceed SCAQMD compliance standards. The highest quality, most cost effective and efficient boiler and heating systems in operation worldwide. Crafted with the highest quality materials, the systems are smaller, cleaner, cooler, and more energy efficient than competitor ‘systems’, demonstrating the highest performance rating and system longevity on the market. A solution designed with the Southern California apartment complex owner in mind. A Boiler and Heating System that Literally Pays for Itself The systems can be fully or partially financed and under normal circumstances, energy savings from the reduced energy use and fuel costs produced by the new system effectively pays for its purchase and installation. In addition to these savings, rebates are available from the local gas company, further lowering the cost of the system. The gas company makes these incentives available on a case-by-case basis to encourage the replacement of older, out-of-compliance equipment with modern, more energy efficient equipment. The folks at CDP know that not unlike all business professionals, apartment complex owners would rather make and save money than spend or lose money, and that’s the beauty of this system. In the end, over the minimum rated 25-year life of the equipment, the system will not only save our owners substantial money, but can actually put a significant amount of money back into their pockets. | | |
Community Development Partners and Atlas Business Development
Form Strategic Alliance
Los Angeles, CA. -- Community Development Partners, LLC, a Los Angeles-based telecommunications
consulting firm, and Atlas Business Development, LLC, a Nevada-based business development firm,
have announced the formation a strategic business alliance.
Community Development Partners (CDP) provides telecommunications consulting services to major
apartment complex owners and planned community developers through its national network.
Atlas Business Development (Atlas) specializes in the development and delivery of full-service
business development solutions to the cable television and broadcast communications industry.
The alliance, the first of several being forged, significantly enhances the nationwide positioning of
CDP-Atlas within the telecommunications industry: from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle in the
west, to Denver, Minneapolis and Kansas City in the heartland, and New York, Washington, D.C. and
Florida in the east.
Atlas provides its clients with a quick and effective entry into new market sectors of the subscription
communications business with extensive experience in the Private Broadband industry.
"We specialize in start-to-finish business development services including: strategic planning and
implementation; marketing, sales and distribution; and, operations and internal management
expansion," said Richard Muller, Atlas principal. "With contacts at all levels of the communications
industry, we help our clients form critical alliances and partnerships resulting in the establishment of
significant market advantages over their competitors."
CDP was organized to serve as a vehicle for change in the telecommunications industry, according
to Nick Nicholson and John Houston, CDP managing directors.
"It has been our goal," said Nicholson, "to design meaningful solutions to the complex nationwide
problems which exist between master planned community developers, MDU owners, service providers
and the residents of the communities they serve."
CDP-Atlas alliance senior managers, many of whom are pioneers in the industry, bring extraordinary
depth and experience to the residential and commercial telecommunications marketplace providing
previously unavailable opportunities to its nationwide clients.
"In the end, this alliance will do more than simply level the playing field," Houston said, "we know
the players and offer decades of experience in the design and delivery of fully integrated
telecommunications solutions on behalf of our clients."
Together, the CDP-Atlas alliance promises to dramatically expand the competitive options available
to its clients.
"We're excited about the potential of this partnership," said Muller, "CDP and Atlas have crafted a
unique paradigm to provide meaningful, cutting-edge telecommunications solutions to multifamily
builders, owners and managers nationwide which we believe will establish a breakthrough in client
advocacy."
Visit our Alliances page and review the brief overview of the principals of Atlas Business Development.
Park
La Brea Signs Representation Deal
with
Community Development Partners,
LLC
Agreement
signals innovation in
telecommunications service
negotiations
Park
La Brea Apartments
(www.parklabrea.com)
has signed an exclusive
telecommunications representation
agreement with Community
Development Partners, LLC (CDP).
The contract takes effect
immediately with CDP providing
its expertise for the negotiation
and on-going management of all
telecommunications service
providers on behalf of Park La
Brea, the second largest
apartment complex in the United
States.
CDP
will request and review all
proposals from cable television,
telephone, and high-speed
Internet service companies for
the 4,236-landmark apartment
conclave located near the
desirable CBS Television City
center and the relatively new
Grove shopping and entertainment
development. It is estimated the
market value of the total
services to residents of the
community will be between 75
million and 100 million dollars
over the life of a ten-year
contract.
"We
enlisted the services of CDP to
help us maximize the value of the
convergence of technologies
available in today's
marketplace," said Chris
Scroggin, General Manager of Park
La Brea. "CDP's involvement will
significantly increase our stream
of revenues in these important
growth areas." Park La Brea is
considered to be one of the first
major apartment communities to
assign representation of this
kind, signaling a major shift in
how telecommunications providers
will do business with multiple
unit dwellings in the near
future.
"Using
CDP is a win-win situation
proposition for all involved,"
said Nick Nicholson, CDP Managing
Partner. "The beneficiaries of
our involvement include the
technology service providers, the
owners and developers and most of
all the residents who will enjoy
state-of-the-art facilities."
CDP
Managing Partner John Houston
added, "Our goal is to eliminate
the confusion and facilitate a
mutually beneficial long-term
business relationship between
cable, telephone, high-speed
Internet and property owners.
This is definitely the case with
Chris Scroggin and his team at
Park La Brea."
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