Hunt Companies Selects Grace Hill as Preferred Provider of Online Education and LMS

Jan. 31, 2012 - PRLog -- Grace Hill, Inc., the leading provider of online education and learning management systems for the multifamily housing industry, today announced that Hunt Companies, Inc. has selected the company as its preferred provider of online education courseware and Learning Management System (LMS) for their military housing property management associates nationwide.

“We are pleased to welcome Hunt to the Grace Hill family and applaud their commitment to empowering property management associates with education,” said Joe Bailey, CEO of Grace Hill, Inc. “We anticipate that the combination of our high-quality interactive training and Vision LMS will create advantage for Hunt by enhancing associates’ skills, improving performance and ensuring investments in people pay off.”

Hunt Companies, Inc. is a leader in military housing having developed over 65,000 homes for military personnel and families spanning the last 40 years.

“Through the LMS planning and implementation process we have been impressed with Grace Hill’s product and their customer service. We believe their LMS is going to greatly improve our training efforts,” commented Steve Norman, Director of Asset Management for Hunt.

The solution implemented by Hunt includes a robust suite of property management specific courseware titles and the Vision Learning Management System, an advanced cloud-based software solution that ensures all associates receive the education needed to improve skills and productivity. With Vision LMS, clients receive a manageable, integrated, scalable system for continuously tracking and measuring competencies organization-wide. The solution delivers more education to more associates in more places in less time, reducing costs and increasing workforce compliance and productivity. As an added benefit, Vision LMS includes seamless electronic integration with most Human Resource systems and features a robust reporting suite to achieve visibility and focus on the information that matters most.

About Hunt:
Founded in 1947, Hunt Companies, Inc. has become a leading national privately-owned real estate developer, investor and manager.   Hunt’s focus and experience is in sectors such as public-private partnerships, military housing, mixed-use, multi-family housing, master-planned communities, government build-to-lease programs, retail, and office.  The services Hunt provides to these sectors include Investment Management, Development, Construction Services, and Asset and Property Management Services.

Hunt and its affiliates have $10 Billion Assets Under Management.  These assets include 114,000 Multi,-Family Housing units, 4.3 million square feet of commercial, 1.5 million square feet of industrial and 1.8 million square feet of retail.   Hunt’s expertise is also comprised of over 89,000 housing units built, thousands of acres of land developed, and over 400 projects completed in 32 states. Development project costs have been in excess of $6.3 billion, with over $8.1 billion in construction costs.  Hunt’s 2010 gross revenue was over $900 million.

Hunt Companies, Inc is headquartered in El Paso, TX with regional offices in Honolulu, Chicago, Washington, D.C, Denver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Memphis and London.   For more information, visit www.huntcompanies.com.

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Grace Hill, Inc. is a privately held company founded in November, 1998 and headquartered in Augusta, GA. Grace Hill, Inc. is the multifamily industry’s leading provider of state-of-the-art online education, providing training alternatives that significantly reduce the overhead of educating employees and clients. In addition to offering various course titles to the public via the Apartment Management Learning Center, Grace Hill’s in-house development team creates customized training solutions for individual clients, including property owners, managers and suppliers. The company also offers a custom-built, private-label Learning Management System, Vision. For more information, call toll free (866) GRACEHILL (866-472-2344) or visit www.gracehill.com.