This is because there is much more area for the heat to escape in a house than in an apartment building.

This segment of the real estate industry is small--worth an estimated $3.5 billion by the mid 1990s--primarily populated by individual owners of rental properties (generally houses).

It handled traditional rental properties, particularly for small investors who did not want to perform all of the management functions such as screening tenants and making emergency repairs.

rental properties in general became more appealing to small investors, both companies and individuals. Individual investors began to put more capital into investment properties

SpotOn Networks provides Wi-Fi hotspots for use in multi-family dwellings (e.g. apartment buildings, dorms).