As a growing small business, day to day tasks can at times be overwhelming; keeping track of new tenants, resolving repair requests, working on advertising material, educating oneself, looking for new growth opportunities and the list goes on.

Sometimes we are all too busy to stop and think about what makes us tick, our values and how we live by them and how we can work to improve them.

Our Goal for the new year, would be to let our mission, vission and core values permeate our culture, our minds and our goals; your mission statement should be a foundation for an enlightened organization.

As a customer service based company, if it was not for the satisfaction of our guest we would not be in business but that does not mean we should not continue to strive for excellence. So back to the "Thou Shalt Be Caring,"  I think this statement is one that can/should be meditated on daily, putting oneself before your own needs goes a long way. We always "try" to go out of the way to make guest comfortable, but at times we do fail. Meditating on our mission, values, "thou shalt be caring" will help eliminate error, and conitune to help reach our goal "peace of mind" for our guests.

The Sanskrit greeting Namaste expresses the intent;  "The divine in me bows to the divin in you"

We thank everyone for your support, have a wonderful new year!!! 

The Wedge published an article in the November/October issue covering Roc Rooms and Rentals 1st annual Charity Event!

The article can be read on p.7, give it a read.  http://www.swpc.org/uploads/theWedge/WedgeCurrentIssue.pdf  

The silent auction was a great sucess, we look forward to planning and raising money for a new charity next year.  If you would like to be part of our planning comminty please contact brett@rocrooms.com. 

Last week, Erica Bryant of the Democrat and Chronicle interviewed Brett and myself(Jesse) for an article that ran in last Saturday's paper. Titled "Good riddance to absentee city landlords",  the article stresses the frustration and problems many out-of-state landlords experience when trying to remotely operate a property particularly in the Rochester area.  RocRooms has come to the rescue of many out-of-state property owners and turned their struggling properties around.    

The article highlights our Brooksview property that we purchased and renovated.  For this property it became too late for the homeowner to turn it around.  It was in serious disrepair when we purchased it, but with time we were able to redesign the property in a way that our residents really loved.  To see some pictures of this property, check out our flickr account here.

The D&C article link: Good riddance to absentee city landlords.   

With our new RIT intern's collaborative efforts, we are creating more positions on the RocRooms team and planning some promotions. We want to further the education of our students, while providing real world working experience while helping them earn some CASH! He will be with us for the next few monthsto help get this initiative off of the ground.

If you're a current RocRooms student, get creative! If you can think of a position we need, or anything you think could benefit the growth of our company, we would love to hear it! You could use any projects you complete with us as school credit or work experience on your resume!

*This post has been edited by Carolyn*

A company named RocRooms focusing on quality student housing found early success, now managing 36 rooms.

Click Here For Entire Article: RBJRocRooms.pdf (233.61 kb)

Published in the Rochester Business Journal on December 19, 2008