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One of the main duties I fulfill as a Weidner Apartment Homes Intern is showing our available apartments to prospective residents. As my community is typically over 98% occupied we are experiencing a number of lease expirations and notices during this time of the year due to our residents purchasing […]
Read MoreThis week I spent two days in St. Paul, Minnesota, completing my Minnesota required education through Kaplan Real Estate Education. It was a couple long days of studying and learning, but I was able to hear a lot from the instructors and other agents that should help me in the […]
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The second week was an exciting one as I received my first lead and client. Someone in my sphere contacted me and had interest in a cabin on a small resort in Wisconsin. With the help of my Team, we set up a showing to see the listing with the […]
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My first week in Real Estate consisted of submitting my exam results, fees, and education proof to become a licensed Real Estate Agent in Wisconsin. After this process was over, Coldwell Banker – Burnet hired me as a Sales Agent. My next step was to get signed up for the […]
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This week Velair had our grand opening of Rosa Place in Mankato, MN. On Wednesday we had a ribbon cutting ceremony and people from the community came out to take a look at the property. Then on Thursday most of the residents moved in! Here is a picture of the […]
Read MoreI spend a lot of time in the car traveling to new houses to appraise. I have a great time seeing new houses everyday, and learning how to measure and draw out each of them. It extremely challenging, but exciting to be learning such valuable lessons to my future career.
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My first week of working at Caswell Appraisal went great. Although it was overwhelming learning so much new information, I found my boss to be incredibly patient, and willing to teach me. Here’s to a great summer of learning!
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My second week at Lake Shore Landing we began to get a lot ready for a new home that will be coming into the community. We brought in lots of fill which was sand and leveled it out. then we poured a concrete slab on top of the sand.
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This past Friday I was able to work my first community event at The Residence at the COR. It was carnival themed and we had a duck pond game, a bottle ring game, music, food, musical chairs, bags, giant jenga and a dunk tank. The residents loved getting to dunk […]
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For the first 10 days of my internship, I am able to learn the basic of this industry. The interns were taught to use different software such as globespotter, pictometry, GIS map to conduct reassessment on townhouses and single family homes. I have to double check the characteristic of the […]
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Over the course of this past week, I have begun my internship with Weidner Apartment Homes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The week has been a great learning experience thus far as we begin going into the next week shortly. This week, I was able to understand the core of Weidner, in […]
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Had the chance to cover for my community manager when she have her PTO. Did a lot of Yardi entries, emailing and calling prospect, putting in work orders, and gave one tour to a prospect.
Read MoreThis week I am spending some time getting to know the competitors in the area. Swan Creek Apartments is located in a growing new development area of Fitchburg, Wisconsin. We have several competitors in our area in which I was able to secret shop. It is important to understand your […]
Read MoreFor the start of my second week at my internship I have been moving along quickly through my appraisal project. I have about 400 loans to get through that should last for the entire summer. I decided to try and automate some of the processes that go along with the […]
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