Yesterday, various Bigos employees and myself boarded a bus and went around touring some of the other properties Bigos owned. It was interesting to see all the different layouts and amenities of other properties. It was like going on a showing but with a whole crew of property managers/leasing agents […]
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Office Cleanup
This week has been extremely slow for me so I have been asking my coworkers if they have anything for me to do to keep myself busy. I talked the special services manager and he had some cleaning around the office that he had been meaning to get to but […]
Read MoreOaks Hiawatha Station
I spent the last four days working at a property over in Hiawatha, while the manager was gone on vacation. It is always nice to get out of the home office and get out onsite.
Read MoreCorporate Leases
Signed my first corporate lease today and boy was it for some huge money. They signed a lease for 3 months that was close to double what a 12 month lease term was. That should boost our revenue this quarter by a ton. It’s honestly like having another unit to […]
Read MoreThe Final Stretch
As the last week in my internship my boss is making sure I have the opportunity to learn everything I can. Today we’re going through some deposit accounting that needs to be done to return security deposits for people that moved out last week. We go through the units and […]
Read MoreMade My First Commission!
As an interning leasing agent we are allowed to receive Commission on apartments we rent to people. At my previous property I had leased an apartment to somebody during my last week there and just received notice that I will be receiving commission for what I did. It’s a great […]
Read MoreCapital Improvements
Last week I had to attend a meeting on how Bigos goes about remodeling their apartments and facilities. It covered how they go about the process and some of the things that they keep in mind during the renovation process. It was interesting to hear how the design team goes […]
Read MoreTutorials
A couple of weeks ago we had a constructive brain storming activity with most of the employees in the northern branch. A lot of the criticism was towards our hours system called blueforce. It is a difficult program to operate but with a little playing around it becomes fairly easy. […]
Read MorePhone Screening
Last week I had to phone screen over 30 applicants for our open positions. I called using my cell phone in a different room so I could hear the conversation. I left voicemails for 80% of the people I called and left them my desk phone to call back. By […]
Read MoreCost Plus Billing
Last week I had the pleasure of joining the accounting team for Cost Plus Billing. I put together countless pages of billing for each manager to confirm the costs accrued throughout the month. At the end of the week I had to scan each packet to the manager so they […]
Read MoreBoiling Point
The tensions between our day manager and the staff at International Plaza finally boiled over at the end of last week. A new manager at the building has been hovering over our manager for the last couple of days and it caused her to break down. She was in tears […]
Read MoreContract Abstract
Throughout this internship I have been working on a “never ending” project that the last intern started. I am proud to say that i have finished reading every single contract that we have and it is now put into an excel document which is accessible to all members of the […]
Read MoreHines Proposal
Still no word on if we won the Hines bid for the properties of Wells Fargo Center, Mayo Clinic Square, Galleria, 50 South Sixth, International Plaza, U.S. Bank Plaza but It from the projects I worked on last week, it sounds like they want to switch to a flat fee […]
Read MoreMaintenance Program
Last week I found out that we have no preventative maintenance program in our company. I found this to be very odd because we use so many different types of equipment that require maintenance. I have been producing a simple preventative maintenance guide for our managers to use to reduce […]
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