Guides

University Housing RFP Requirements: What to Ask For

Emily Carter — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:28:49 GMT

Most RFPs for student housing vendors are built around the two things that are easiest to compare on a spreadsheet: price and inventory. Those matter, but they're not what actually determines whether a vendor works well a year into the relationship, once the first cohort has moved in and something has inevitably gone wrong.

If you're building or updating an RFP for housing support—whether for exchange students, international degree-seekers, or a broader study-abroad partnership—here's what is worth requiring that most pliegos leave out.

Duty of Care for Employee Relocation to NYC in 2026

James Bennett — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:45:00 GMT

“Duty of care” shows up in almost every corporate relocation policy document. What it actually requires in practice, once an employee is living in an apartment your company arranged in New York, is a lot more concrete than the phrase suggests—and a lot easier to fail quietly than most global mobility teams assume.

Why International Mobility Platforms Need More Than SaaS

James Bennett — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:04:54 GMT

For the last two decades, “Give the team a login and let them figure it out” was a perfectly good way to sell software. SaaS priced by seat, delivered a dashboard, and left the operational work—actually getting things done—to the humans on the other side of the screen. That model made sense when software's job was to organize information a team still had to act on manually.

International mobility never really fit that model. It just didn't have a better option until recently.

Why Relocation Agencies Are Moving From Spreadsheets to APIs

Emily Carter — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:30:01 GMT

Most relocation and mobility agencies don't have a demand problem. They have an operations issue that's invisible until you try to grow past a certain size—and then it's the only thing standing between the business you have and the business your pipeline says you could have.

Renting an Apartment in NYC Guide: Fees and Guarantors

Emily Carter — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:52:21 GMT

New York's rental market runs on conventions that don't exist almost anywhere else, and if you're arriving from another country—or even another US city—some of what you'll be asked for will look like a mistake. It isn't. Here's what's actually normal, what recently changed, and what to watch for.