One of the best ways to grow and optimize your property management business is by attending any number of the property management conferences available to you. There are tons, reaching from small local vendor fairs to national events with thousands of attendees. Here is our list of the best conferences and events you can attend.
NARPM’s largest conference, the NARPM National Convention and Trade Show, is hosted every October around the week of Halloween. It is among the SFR industry’s headline events with nearly 1000 attendees yearly, and it's an excellent conference for any size SFR operators. This is not specific to large PM companies by any means.
It features a vendor fair, numerous workshops and panels, and a range of other events for NARPM members. It’s one of the best networking opportunities for property managers that exists, and and also an opportunity to become a #SecondNatureVIP.
NARPM’s second largest conference, typically held in April, is specific to CEOs and broker/owners. Structurally, it’s similar to the national conference with a collection of speakers and sessions, circled around a large trade show featuring some industry-evolving vendors.
The difference, as mentioned, is the exclusivity of the audience. You're networking directly and only with other major decision makers, which has its advantages and has made Broker/Owner a very popular conference for property management leaders.
Information Management Network offers three single-family events, which typically have huge attendance exceeding 2000 people. It's a destination for a lot of large companies and Real Estate Investment Trusts, so you'll get more of a scaled perspective of the industry than you might at a NARPM event.
IMN is built around a large set of industry panels. There is no keynote speaker. In addition to a tradeshow, it's heavy on industry expertise from large-scale operators in the tens of thousands of doors. If that perspective is interesting to you, the IMN single-family will be worth your time.
National Rental Home Council is a relatively new organization, and its Industry Leaders conference is going on its third year in 2024. It's an advocacy organization founded by five 30,000+ door owner/operators, so the conference tends to focus more on large-scale advocacy.
It's a different type of educational opportunity than what you may find at a NARPM or IMN event. Because these companies are owner/operators, there is more on the resident experience topic that's discussed and less on investor relationship.
Headed up by Paul Kankowski and Wolfgang Croskey, the PM Systems Conference is a relatively new yearly conference held in Las Vegas. It's built more around working sessions than panels, making it generally more application-based than learning-based.
You'll spend time at the PM Systems Conference digging into the actual processes and systems you use and working to optimize them, quite literally working on your business while you're there. One of the things attendees enjoy about this conference is leaving having already started process optimization instead of having to start on all your learnings after you leave.
Apartmentalize is an industry-renowned trade show and conference for the multifamily industry. Typically in June and in a rotating location, Apartmentalize has seen over 11,000 attendees in past years.
With tons of exhibitors, over 100 learning sessions, and over 200 industry experts speaking, Apartmentalize is an excellent for multifamily property managers to drive business growth and learn new strategies.
Triple Win Leadership Xchange is a great way to engage and connect with property managers without having to get on a plane. It’s a completely online, half-day event that offers a keynote session, multiple panels, and interactive opportunities for professional property managers to take the insights gained from the panels and talk about applying them with their peers.
Past keynote speakers have included FBI hostage negotiator Christopher Voss, Author of Who Not How, Benjamin Hardy, and former 1-800-GOT-JUNK? COO and author of Vivid Vision, Cameron Herold. It’s an extremely easy conference to attend, it’s focused on helping you develop your business, and all proceeds go to NARPM’s Past Presidents’ Charity.