
Residents at Church Corner Apartments in Cambridge, Mass., can stop flipping over their couch cushions in search of quarters.
The 85-unit Equity Residential community replaced its out-of-date laundry system in November with machines that are connected to the Internet, giving residents the ability to pay for each wash or dry cycle with a debit or credit card.
The new payment and monitoring system— a commonly used micro-payment processing technology only recently developed for laundry facilities in the apartment industry—is a welcome alternative for residents who never carry change or frequently misplace or forget to replenish a pre-paid laundry card.