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Hatcher Pass

This weekend I had a very great visit from my friends from Wisconsin and we decided to go to Hatcher Pass in Palmer, Alaska. We did a ton of other things, but they really enjoyed this place because it’s so beautiful and the sights were amazing. I have been here […]

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Saturday Pool Party

We decided to do a little resident event for when the pool opened. We decided it would be a fun kick off to summer to do a pool party on Saturday. Residents can come and use the pool and we would get them a frozen treat. Residents seemed excited until […]

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Arizona Day 2

The second day in Arizona was very educational. First we listened to Jack O’Conner talk about the company. He explained Weidner to us like he said he would to the Wall Street Journal. He talked about his start in the industry how he got to Weidner, he talked about Dean, […]

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Arizona Day 1

Weidner took all of us interns to Arizona for a gathering. When we arrived we got settled. Then went to an escape room. There were four teams. Two teams got out and two teams didn’t. My team got out with nine minutes to spare. It was a great problem solving […]

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No CD

For the past week, my community director went on vacation for the week, so it meant at the office we had an assistant director, 2 leasing consultants, an intern, and a full maintenance team. We constantly had people calling saying they wanted to speak to the manager or the boss, […]

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Pool

Since I have started here at High Plains (5 weeks ago), our pool has been opened maybe 5 days. It has been very difficult dealing with very unhappy tenants who want to enjoy the pool, but people who live here and people who just work off the streets have ruined […]

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1 month

I have been at High Plains apartments for exactly one month today. Since I have been there, I have learned how to: lease an apartment deal with annoyed and frustrated tenants how to deal with tenants who didn’t get the exact apartment they want how to deal with people who […]

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Weidner Cares Day

Yesterday we participated in our Weidner Cares Day here in Alaska. Our project was to help the William Clark Chamberlin Equestrian Center. We painted coral fences, fixed their out buildings, did a ton of brush cutting and landscaping, and painted and fixed a bunch of other buildings on their property. […]

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Time Cards

We do them the old fashion way here. I always got to make sure I got my time cards all filled out in turned in on time to my boss. Except I got a million other things on my mind and always forget. But I make it work.

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