Author: Kelly Graves

3 months done, 0 more to go!

Today was my last day at work! I have grown so close to my coworkers, it was hard to say good bye. They are all amazing individuals, that have taught me so much about the profession. I have never worked with a group that is as goofy, yet know how […]

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Tagging Cars

One of the big projects that I helped with this week was tagging cars. Our ACD (Assistant Community Director) does this weekly to all cars that have expired tags, look suspicious/stolen, are in a tenants reserved spot or look abandoned. After being tagged, we wait a few days to see […]

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Velo on the Boulevard

This week I got to tour a property in downtown Salt Lake City, called Velo. The property was just bought up by Weidner 4 months ago and is made up of 99 units. It is a relatively small property compared to the nearly 500 unit property I am used to […]

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The Battle of Vacant Units

This week we have spent a majority of the week trying to battle our occupancy that is continually lowering, due to notices and loss of traffic in our office. We discovered that one of our advertisement companies had been forgetting to send us emails of people that submitted inquiries on […]

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New Property Friday

For the rest of my time out in Utah, I will be going to a new property every Friday with my Regional Manager, Ashley. This Friday I had the opportunity to go to a property downtown Salt Lake City which is called Bridges at Citifront. It is a lot different […]

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Package Room Chaos

The big project this week is the package room. I dealt with this at both of the properties that I was at this week. At Legends, we have a package room to hide the chaos, but at Bridges all of their packages are out in the open. At both properties […]

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Move-Ins

I have had several move in’s this week and have spent much of the weeks getting ready for them. Before someone can move in I need to make sure their prorated rent is paid, have the tenant set up their electricity, set up their renters insurance and make sure all […]

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Troubleshooting

To trouble shoot our slight drop in occupancy we have started spending the little spare time we have in the vacant units sprucing them up. In this process we clean, put new air fresheners in the unit and make sure the temperature is just right for tours.

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Occupancy

This past week we have had to deal a lot with vacant units. Usually our occupancy sits right around 97%, but in the past few weeks that number has dropped and several units are coming available. We have been continuing to post ads and keep up with our marketing, but […]

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Rent Café Continued…

So far there has been a lot to work out with the program and it has been a bit of a rough switch. Our IT department is working hard to correct the errors and make sure that the program is running efficiently for us. The past few days have been […]

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Rent Café is Live!

We went live on Thursday morning. Our team came into the office early to help residents sign up for the new website and we had complimentary coffee and pastries for those who came in.  Weidner also is having a contest for all residents who signed up before the 26th. If […]

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Rent Café Training

This past week we spent two days in Salt Lake City learning a new property management online program. The training was very interesting, but the best part was our lunch –highly recommend Café Rio!! When I first got trained in last month we were using Yardi Voyager. The Utah region […]

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Treasures in Abandoned Storage Units

If you read my last post you probably know that I have spent the last week trying to sort through hundreds of garages and storages units that occupy the property I am working at. I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy doing it, but it is a […]

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Garage and Storage Unit Audit

This week my coworker and I were given the task to do an audit on our storage units and garages. Our waitlist was a disorganized, lengthy mess and our property manager said it had been quite some time since anyone has tackled the project. We divided the project in to […]

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