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Dealing with the Unique Building

I have been helping with the maintenance team at my property lately trying to see their side of things. Our property in Minneapolis is a refurbished historical building which means most floors have completely different floor plans. This can cause some interesting situations for maintenance. We had a work order […]

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Turn Around Day

In the field of property management having a fast unit turn around is very key to a successful property. High occupancy percentage is one of the biggest priorities a manager has at a property. In the scenario today, a resident abandoned their unit so we spent the day clearing everything […]

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Lunch – Bonding time

Multiples studies shown that over half of the American population eats their lunch alone during work. In fact, having lunch with colleagues can boost performance, increase productivity as well as maintain a close relationship within the team. The interns set designated time to eat lunch together for almost everyday. It allowed […]

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Week 2- Settling In

Week two was spent learning, learning, and more learning. Both getting familiar with the Walker Minnesota area, as well as the resort as a whole. I spent some time learning about our units for rent, working the front desk of the resort and learning our computer system. Decided this week […]

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Resident Events Galore!

One fun part of my property management internship with Weidner Apartment Homes is spending time planning resident events. The past couple of weeks, my team in the office has been busy getting our summer events planned and executed. I have really enjoyed creating the save the dates and marketing flyers […]

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Settling In

I finally feel like I’m settling into my role in this company.  All of the new things I’ve learned are becoming much easier to do on my own, and I feel way more comfortable doing my job.  It’s a blast learning the real world work that I will be doing […]

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Finishing the Project

For the past few weeks I have been going through our portfolio of loans and completing analysis and Proforma’s on each of the loans. Typically this process takes all summer but I decided to try something new. I created an Excel spreadsheet that mimics the worksheet that we were originally […]

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