Last week our garage door broke and is becoming an extremely costly repair. Before any repaid is done our management company requires us to get quotes from three different vendors. All of the vendors have ballparked this repair around $10,000 which is not necessarily in our budget, Because this item […]

The past few weeks our property has had incredibly slow traffic. With lower traffic it has made each tour and prospect that much more important. We have several units that have been sitting vacant for a while and our vacancy loss is growing daily. This has forced us to offer […]

Last week our property was experiencing unusually low traffic. This left us with a lot of downtime in the office. We used this time to figure out why our traffic was so low. We called other competitors and looked at adjusting our prices. What we found out was that our […]

This past week our property had several prospects come in for tours that said they were students in the area. All of them said their reason for liking our property was that it was close to their school. This made us think about how we could better target these students […]

Recently my property hired a new leasing consultant. In order to train this new employee Weinder brought over one of their gold star leasing specialists. These specialists have worked as leasing consultants for a number of years and have excelled at the position. This consultant works with the new hire […]

Tomorrow is Weidner Cares Day for the South Seattle Region. Weidner Cares Day is a day where all properties in that region close their offices for the day and spend the whole day working on a community service project. This day happens once a year and it is a great […]

Two weekends ago the leasing consultant at my property quit unexpectedly. This has left our property without a leasing consultant for the past two weeks. At first, we missed his presence as he was a major part of our daily operations, but now we have embraced and are excited for […]

Last week we had a fire at our property. It was a small pan fire but enough to set off the sprinkler system in the unit. Unfortunately for us that unit was due to move out in two days making the turn of that apartment much more difficult. Fortunately for […]

Last week Thursday all of the interns from the Seattle region sat in on the MIT meeting at the Weidner corporate office and then we had intern meeting of our own. These meetings revolved around leasing, customer service, and Weidner’s mission and values. Our intern meeting was concluded by speech […]

Last week I started my internship with Weidner Apartment Homes. I am working as the summer intern at The Artiste Apartment Homes. As well as working at The Artiste I am residing there too. The Artiste was built in 2012 and has 148 apartment homes. We offer studios, one bedroom, […]