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The Best Apartment On-site Fitness Centers.

There was a time when just having an on-site apartment fitness center set you apart from your competition.  Unfortunately, those days are gone.  Today, most apartment properties have an on-site fitness center.


Now it's 2012 and if you want your on-site fitness center to help you close more rental leases you have to do it right.



Most apartment properties ( multi housing communities ). Know more about ice-making frost-free refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens than what motivates a new resident from signing a lease because they like the onsite fitness center.  A well equipped fitness center gives a huge sales tool to an an accomplished Leasing Professional to be proud presenting it as one of the best benefits of living in the community.


America's health conscious future residents are more educated about the benefits of what a desireable on-site fitness center should look like..  This is why it’s important for Leasing Professionals to be aware of the value of the fitness center as a community feature, and be well versed in the features and benefits of the various types of equipment it offers.  

On-Site fitness centers may come in all sizes and in many settings, but the one thing they all have in common is that they can be used as a powerful marketing tool.  The key is to spotlight the features and benefits that make your property onsite health club unique.

Your purpose is to have the best onsite fitness center in your local market so you can use it to find more customers.  Your lease agents will be proud to show the on site fitness center to future residents. 

Having a quality Health Club in the Apartment complex where you live is one of the top reasons new clients will sign the lease.


Here are some tips to get the most out of your Apartment fitness center.


1.   Add some features to make it feel like a real Health Club!


First you need to put in professional grade fitness machines as you see in the best gyms like 24 hour fitness and Gold's gyms.  Then you need to make your onsite fitness room appealing and popular which means making it feel like a real Gym with carpeting or flooring; installing mirrors to open up the room. Make sure your residents feel like they are getting a FREE Health Club membership.


2.  Make your property the expert in fitness training. 


Highlight your on-site fitness center in your brochure, your presentations and advertisements. 


"If you want to live a healthy fitness lifestyle, you should be living here"  


3.   Get your future resident to your Gym, first.

Bring your future resident to the on-site fitness center FIRST and let them do a workout.  Show them that your property is the best place to live a successful fitness lifestyle.  Every person is either on a fitness workout program, or wishes they were.


4.   Use the Internet to promote your on-site fitness center amenity.

Make a video tour of your on-site fitness center and post it to Youtube.  Then simply embed the Youtube video link on the homepage of your website.  Tag it with local keywords so the video gets found in your local market searches.  Your future residents are using the Internet FIRST, before they visit a property.  So take great photos of your on-site fitness center and put them first in your slide-show.  It is hard to find an apartment property who displays their on-site fitness center as important.  And understands it is a great sales vehicle as good as any other they can use.  Make your fitness center jump off the page and set your property ahead of all your competition.


5.   Keep your residents using your on-site fitness center.

It’s easier to retain residents than it is to replace them – and you’re more likely to keep them if you can keep them using your fitness center.  Give your residents reasons to use the fitness center weekly. Hold contests, fitness group classes and seminars.  Create a center of activity around your fitness center, and build a fitness community!