If your residents don’t connect, your properties aren’t just lacking community, you’re losing money.
Multifamily residents are 8% more likely to renew their lease with just one neighbor as a friend.1 One avoided turnover saves $3,872 on average.2
Hello! I’m Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Harmon, founder of A Village for Life. I’m here to help your residents to grow fun and caring communities—villages—that will help them thrive, not want to move and boost your bottom line as a result.
Village Readiness Assessment
Starting spring 2026
This is a quick and affordable service that starts with surveying property residents to gauge their interest in growing a village.
Village Activation Support
Starting spring 2026
This service is to help residents interested in growing a village to get started by helping them to clarify their interests and take action.
Vertical Village Alliance
Launching fall 2026
This offer is about gathering partners to foster villages in multifamily housing that augment neighbor care with medical care.
Our village activation support goes beyond events to gift-based engagement.
If two event coordinators can produce benefits of around $188K a year, imagine the potential financial and social impacts of activating the gifts of multiple villagers.
Apartment Life houses event coordinators in multifamily properties rent-free to forge connections. They report adding about $188,154 in financial benefit a year to the average community through reduced turnover, increased leasing and value added through an increased sense of community.3
A Village for Life seeks to build on events facilitated by two people by engaging the gifts, skills and passions of multiple neighbors around the purpose of asset-based community development: creating caring and lively communities based on what’s strong—not wrong—in neighborhoods.
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- Industry estimates place the average cost of turning over one rental unit between $1k to $5k.
Zego’s 2023 Resident Experience Management Report puts the number at $3,872. - ApartmentLife.org