My internship as a Guest Attendant at the Grand Geneva Resort and Spa has officially concluded. However, I can say with absolute certainty, that I am leaving as a more well rounded, and driven, individual. Not only have I met all the goals I set out for myself at the […]

For the last week, I was asked to help onboard a new portfolio for the Milwaukee office. My assignments for the project were to abstract the leases and I contributed to reaching out to vendors to establish service agreements. The entire portfolio had one month to be onboarded. As I […]

In week 7 I was able to work on several tenant move-out inspections from start to finish. Simultaneously we knocked out a few annual inspections for our business park, and we worked with our maintenance manager from another company to inspect mechanical and electrical components. As I learn more I […]

Week 8 was great we finally hit our goal of 90% occupancy which was a change because of how large the community was. I also shadowed maintenance and grounds which gave me a different perspective on how the community stays looking and running great. I also did a lot of […]

Week 7 was very productive, and I had a few move-ins and property events. One of the community events was the Glow Run 5k and another one was the happy hour which I helped set up and advertise. I was also very excited with all of the move-ins we have […]

For the 6th week of my internship, I was assigned to my areas of property inspection. The 1st property I inspected was chaperoned but it quickly lead to independent inspections. The picture featured is from the rooftop of my office which I was entrusted to inspect solo. The inspections tie […]

The 5th week of my internship brought a very interesting and insightful experience. The interns were invited to an event held by the managers of 330 Kilbourn in Milwaukee. This is one of a couple of opportunities offered by Colliers to get a deeper understanding of commercial real estate and […]

During the 4th week of my internship, I learned the beginning steps of the budgeting process. This involved contacting vendors, reviewing rent rolls, and using software like Microsoft Excel and Yardi. Upon reviewing our listed vendors in MRI Angus, we decided to audit our COIs for each vendor which opened […]

While the main road is being reconstructed by the city, workers down the road happened to block a main drainage system causing a backflow of the storm drains. Due to the massive amount of rain and sediment building up, the backflow from the drains bled into one of our properties […]

Things picked up in the office finally after weeks of being sorta slow. By the end of the week, I received 5 applications, consider me in the hunt for “leasing superstar” one of my #1 goals for my internship. Two of those applications ended up being declined due to various […]

On Wednesday our realtor key box busted and in turn we were locked out of our master key and mailroom key box. So I had to my expertise and break into the boxes so we could replace the locks. Something different every day.

During week 5 we had a load of move-ins from the previous week’s applicants. Monday we had a water fountain flood near the bathrooms, that was quite the cleanup. On Wednesday we had our “Team” meeting at a sister property. following that, we had a nice MIT/Intern lunch with a […]

Came back from my 4th of July vacation to maintenance being extremely far behind on a turnover to have someone move in the next day at 9 am. We completely replaced the flooring and baseboards due to extreme pet damage. I ended up staying until 8.30 pm painting and installing […]