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| ABOUT US |  |
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| Our Company |
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| Red Apple Apartments provides accommodation solutions from just one night to several months depending on individual customer needs. Growing demand from business and leisure travelers for alternative accommodation to hotels has encouraged many individual apartment owners to offer their properties for short-term rent. For customers this increased supply has often meant a lack of consistency and quality making the apartment selection process chaotic and complicated. Red Apple Apartment’s mission is to simplify this process and enable our customers to come to a single place to make all their booking arrangements securely in only few minutes. |
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| Our ambition is to provide great customer service in everything we do, from the user-friendly design of www.redappleapartments.com to our service team who will always do their best to assist you in any way possible. It is our hope that by doing business with us you will find just the right apartment for your needs: An apartment that feels just like home. | |
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| Our Staff | |
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| Red Apple Apartments is run by team of highly educated and experienced staff from all over the world, bringing a love and respect for travel and culture to every aspect of our business. | |
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| Ragnar Fjalar Saevarsson |  |
| ragnar@redappleapartments.com |
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| Ragnar is co-founder of Red Apple Apartments. He has a business degree from the University of Iceland and Master's degrees in Entrepreneurship and International Marketing & Brand Management from Lund University in Sweden. He held several management positions in sales and marketing before starting Red Apple Apartments. He is at home in the virtual world of the internet and has a keen eye for design. He speaks fluent English and Icelandic and has a good grasp of Danish and Swedish. Ragnar is well-traveled and places an importance on health, fitness and recreation in his life. He has three children and lives with his wife, Sesselía Birgisdóttir, in Lund, Sweden. |
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| Sesselía Birgisdóttir |  |
| sesselia@redappleapartments.com |
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| Sesselía is co-founder of Red Apple Apartments. She has two Master's degrees—International Marketing & Brand Management and Managing People, Knowledge & Change—from Lund University in Sweden. She worked for many years in the publishing industry in marketing and sales and brings her creative skills to Red Apple Apartments, where she also exercises her talents in public relations. She lives in Sweden with her husband, Ragnar Saevarsson, and has 2 daughters and a stepson. She divides her time between work, family and travel—sometimes doing all three at once. She speaks fluent Icelandic and English and some Swedish and Faroese. She has made several attempts to learn Spanish and has sincere hopes to get it down one day. |
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| Jennifer Pemberton |  |
| jennifer@redappleapartments.com |
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| Jennifer is from the United States and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing. She has taught writing and literature to university students in the U.S. and China and serves as our web editor and writer, among her many tasks at Red Apple. She has worked as an editor for university publications, a history magazine, and an expedition travel company. Her work as a travel writer has taken her to the Antarctic and Shanghai, where she worked on writing an online travel guide to China. She is passionate about travel and the outdoors and is an avid camper and backpacker. She speaks English fluently and knows the language intimately. She loves learning new languages and has basic skills in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. |
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| Lyazzat Salikova |  |
| lyazzat@redappleapartments.com |
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| Lyazzat has a Master's degree in Entrepreneurship from Lund University in Sweden and her business ideas and customer relations skills are valued at Red Apple Apartments. Originally from Kazakhstan, her knowledge of the global community comes from working for the United Nations and several U.S. government development agencies. She has lived in the U.K., Germany and Indonesia and her passion for travel has taken her to over 30 other countries. She is fluent in Russian, English and Kazakh and picked up quite a bit of German. Her Russian enables her to understand many Slavic languages and she hopes to add Swedish to her list soon. She lives in Sweden and, when she's not touring Europe on the back of her husband's Harley, she enjoys the comforts of home—reading, cooking and relaxing. |
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| Ericka Hedlund |  |
| ericka@redappleapartments.com |
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| Ericka is from the United States. Her deep interest in people led her to study Religion and English at Texas Christian University. She has always been a people person and has worked various customer service related jobs over the years, lending to her expertise and knowledge. We value her pleasant phone voice and excellent customer relations skills here at Red Apple Apartments. Ericka enjoys cooking, baking, and especially crossword puzzles. She lives in Sweden with her husband and speaks English and basic Swedish. |
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| Janine Johnston |  |
| janine@redappleapartments.com |
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| Janine came to Sweden as a kärleksinvandrare—Swedish for “love immigrant”—all the way from South Africa, where she launched and developed the Natural & Organic Products Exhibition and The Women's Show. She is skilled in business development, sales and marketing—talents which are all well suited to her role at Red Apple Apartments as Special Events Manager. Janine speaks English and Afrikaans fluently and has quickly picked up Swedish. She reads Le Petit Prince at least once a year to keep her understanding of French fresh. She keeps herself informed and updated regarding sustainability, has a keen eye for design and is very passionate about good, wholesome food. |
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| Badar Kamal |  |
| badar@redappleapartments.com |
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| Badar is responsible for our IT processes here at Red Apple Apartments. He is extremely qualified to make our processes run smoothly with a B.S. in Software Engineering and a Master’s degree in Internet Systems. He has worked in business development and process automation for companies all over the world, including Pakistan, U.S., Canada and Sweden. Badar speaks basic Swedish and is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, java, php, asp, C++, Oracle SQL and assembly languages. He lives in Sweden and enjoys travel, photography, bikes and books. |
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| Olof Jönsson |  |
| olof@redappleapartments.com |
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| Olof’s education in International Business and Finance and his experiences living abroad make him a great asset when it comes to taking care of Red Apple Apartment’s accounts. He has lived in Sweden, Korea and Taiwan and has a wide variety of work experience. Olof is fluent in English and Swedish and has good working knowledge of German, Mandarin Chinese, Danish and Norwegian. When he takes a break from analyzing finances, he enjoys sports and exercise. |
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| Our Website |
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| Our website is constructed with the intention to make it simple and fast for you to search, select, book and pay for one of our listed apartments in just couple of minutes. Information about individual apartments is provided on a single page so you have all the information you need in one place to make your decision. All listed apartments are complemented by high quality photographs, detailed descriptions and an interactive map of the location and the surrounding area. | |
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| We also include useful city overviews and tourist information for every city we service and maintain a company blog, keeping up with current events and providing our customers with up-to-date city information. | |
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| Our website was launched in March 2008 and we are constantly making improvements. Suggestions or other comments regarding our website are welcome any time to any of our staff members or through our Contact Us form. | |
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| Our Apartments | |
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| Our preferred partners are selected apartment hotels and individual apartment owners. We hand-pick all of our apartments and require correct and detailed information about each apartment before offering the accommodation on our website. Our personal relationship to our owners makes it possible for us to be more flexible when it comes to your special requests. | |
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| We offer a wide selection of both self-catering and serviced apartments in convenient locations, allowing you to choose between different neighborhoods to enable you to be located exactly where you need to be, and our variety in apartment sizes and amenities makes it possible to fine tune your selection within a chosen neighborhood. | |
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| Our listed apartments are all private with a fully equipped kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, fridge, freezer, tableware and cooking utensils; bathroom with shower and/or bathtub, toilet, hairdryer, towels; and bed linens. | |
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| Our Security Policy | |
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| When you submit a payment to Red Apple Apartments you can be sure that your order is secure and safe. Whether you choose to pay with a credit card, a bank wire transfer or through PayPal, Red Apple Apartments will never see your credit card or bank account number. Your trust is of vital importance to us and we have created our website with your maximum security in mind. Red Apple Apartments will endeavor to safeguard your privacy, and personal information collected will only be used to tailor and improve the services to suit your needs. We will never sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third party companies or organizations. | |
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| Our Contact Information | |
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| Homepage: www.redappleapartments.com | |
| E-mail: info@redappleapartments.com | |
| Phone: +46 763 416 730 | |
| Address: Tornavägen 13, 22363 Lund, Sweden | |
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| For Apartment Owners | |
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| If you are the owner or manager of an apartment or apartment hotel and are interested in listing your property on our site for short-term rental to tourists and/or business travelers, please visit our List Your Apartment page or send an email with some information about your apartment to listing@redappleapartments.com. | |
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