I put 3 apartments on Easter Clearance for Friday and Saturday, I managed to clear 2 out of 3 apartments!
What works about it is that it raises questions and makes us interesting (maybe increased incentives had something to do with it).
My next project is to try to use Brian's idea and have my residents create a video and/or scrapbook about Why they love their Community. That is going to be interesting as my residents have gone through quite a bit. 2 years ago a company bought the property to sell, so no money were put into the community. Then Bethany took over and started renovating. It worked for about a year until it went downhill and eventually Bethany filed for bankruptcy after we had had no budget to do anything for the community for at least 8 months, we didn't even have enough for stamps :)
I'm hoping that with making it worth their while that they will be forced to think positive about their community which will make it easier for the new company taking over and turning the residents around.