COVID-19 became a real thing for lots of people on March 11, 2020. 

Over the past year, many of us at RealPage have referred to the date as Tom Hanks Day, since it's when America's Dad shared that he and wife Rita Wilson had contracted the virus. It's also when the NBA shut down pro basketball play and when the World Health Organization first classified what was happening as a global pandemic.

As with so many things, then, the US apartment market entered a fundamentally different period one year ago today.

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