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Safety First

OSHA requires safety data sheets turned in to them every so often. Just going through reviewing and inspecting all the different hazards and labels on all are equipment. If something is labeled wrong or considered a hazard, we must fix it right away so we don’t get fined.

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MIT Intern Meeting

The interns got to attend the MIT meeting at corporate. We got to learn a lot more about the MIT program. We played a little game with starbursts to learn more about each other. We learned about how MITs come from all different walks of life. Not all are straight […]

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Vacant Unit Inspections

Today i Walked around with our property owner to all of our vacant units. She pointed out the different things she looks at while inspecting empty units. We went through and wrote down everything that she wanted cleaned or fixed and gave the report to our maintenance supervisor.

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Maintenance

On Wednesday last week I was able to help the assistant community director with some of the maintenance that he had to get done for the day. We moved a dishwasher and fixed a thermostat which was nice to learn how to do some things like how to hook up […]

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Power Hour

Power Hour at Weidner takes place from 9am-10am before our office opens. It gives us time to tidy up the office, vacuum, clean the glass doors, pick up trash, sweep the entrance, clean up the fitness center, fluff pillows, and put balloons out. It also gives us a chance to […]

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Lease Expiration

One very important thing to keep track of is when leases expire. This is important because you need to watch when leases expire because you don’t want to have a lot of vacancies at one time which makes a business lose money. Also, more people are willing to move during the summer […]

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Showing Apartments

Being able to show an apartment is crucial. It helps the future resident figure out if it really is the right place for them. It lets them imagine where they can fit their furniture. It gives them an idea on how to change this home into their home. A few […]

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Regression Analysis Assignment

My next assignment for Insight is to create tables that will be used for a regression analysis to predict values based on various property features.  The blueprint for this analysis is found in the scholarly article [first picture]. Basically, there is a data set of comparable sales of industrial properties that […]

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