Resident onboarding & community · Chicago
New residents who make friends stay.
Aldea welcomes each cohort of move-ins with a New Neighbors Night, then helps them form small Hangs that keep meeting, led by resident hosts from your own building.
Turnover is expensive. Community is what renters say they’re missing.
$3,976
47%
Most buildings answer with a party. People have a nice night, then go back to nodding at each other in the elevator.
How it works
A welcome that goes somewhere.
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New Neighbors Night
Each move-in cohort gets a structured welcome: speed-friending rounds, a neighborhood map wall, and an “I’m looking for…” board. Nobody has to work the room alone.
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Hangs keep meeting
Before the night ends, residents form Hangs: groups of 4–6 around something they already want to do, like a Sunday run or a new restaurant. Each Hang commits to meeting three times, and resident hosts keep them going.
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A report two weeks later
You get a short report showing what happened after the event: how many Hangs met again. We measure whether residents keep meeting, not how many showed up.
What your building gets
We run it. Your team shows up and meets people.
Built around what operators track: renewals, reviews, referrals, and how fast new units lease.
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The event, end to end
Planning, invitations, setup, hosting and cleanup for each cohort’s New Neighbors Night.
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A neighborhood map wall
Residents pin their favorite spots. It stays in the lobby afterward and keeps growing with each cohort.
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Trained resident hosts
Neighbors from each cohort, supported by Aldea’s playbook, whose role is to bring others in.
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The Aldea app for Hangs
A lightweight way for each Hang to pick a time, check in, and stay in touch.
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The follow-up report
Two weeks after each night: which Hangs met again, and what residents asked for next.
Why it works
Friendships come from repeated time together, not one great match.
50 → 200 hours
Adults don’t lack people to meet. What they lose after school is the structure that made friendship easy: a shared beginning, seeing the same faces again and again, and someone whose job is to pull you in. Aldea rebuilds those three things inside the building.
- A shared beginning. Everyone in a cohort is new at the same time, which makes saying hello easy.
- Small groups of 4–6. Small enough that everyone talks, big enough to survive a missed week.
- Plans that repeat. Three meetups are agreed before the night ends, not “we should hang out sometime.”
- People who bring others in. Resident hosts keep Hangs going after Aldea leaves.
From our nights
What happens after the party.
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For residents
Want Aldea in your building?
Tell us where you live. We’ll reach out to your building’s team, and let you know if a New Neighbors Night is coming.
About
A note from Juanda
Moving to a new building in a new city, you can live a few feet from hundreds of people and still not know one. Everyone is busy, and nobody wants to be the first to knock.
I started Aldea in Chicago because I don’t think the missing piece is people. It’s structure. Give new neighbors a real beginning, a small group, and a reason to meet again, and most of them will do the rest.
If that sounds like something your building needs, I’d love to talk.
— Juanda, founder
Get started
Host a free New Neighbors Night.
For property managers, marketing managers, and lease-up teams in Chicago. We’ll plan your first night together and send you the report afterward, at no cost to your building.
Prefer to talk first? Pick a time on my calendar