From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

Meet the team!

This is most of the people I worked with in the office! There was a community director, assistant community director, leasing manager, and 4 leasing consultants. Everyone was great to work with and they were always willing to answer my questions when I didn’t know how to do something. The […]

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Mini Models

At visions, we had three mini models always set up. Mini models were apartments that needed to be rented because they had been available for a longer time than others. They had a few things placed in them like towels and soap in the bathroom and plates, cups and oven […]

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My days off!

One of my days off, I took a trip up to Sedona with some of my friends that live down in Tempe. We took a day trip to Sedona and walked around the town, got food, went sightseeing, and shopped! It was great to be able to see more of […]

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A day in the life…

My day usually started with an opening duty. This could’ve been opening the office, clubhouse or models. Next I would work on emails and the prospect pipeline. The office would then open and I would talk phone calls, greet people that walked into the office, give tours, and work on […]

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Property Walk

One of my responsibilities was to do weekly property walks. Visions was a large community of 731 apartments so I just 4 buildings to focus on. The purpose of property walks was to make sure all of the apartment patios looked nice and only patio furniture was on them. The […]

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First Day At Visions!

My first day at Visions Apartments started on January 8th. I started my day at the Phoenix regional office with training. After lunch I headed to Visions Apartment Homes which was located in Peoria. I spent the rest of the day shadowing on of the leasing staff.

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Garage clean up

One problem we’ve had this summer is random furniture in our garage spaces. One of my jobs was to go down in the garage and take note of all the spaces violating the terms on the lease. Then contacting the resident to make sure it gets taken care of.

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Pool Inspectors

The pool inspectors came by the other day. They found that the distance between our rocks and our fence was not up to code. There must be less than 2 inches inbetween the two. What a fun morning!

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Shopping Around Downtown Minneapolis…Phew!

Just the other day I was encouraged to walk around the downtown Minneapolis area and shop the competitors of 7west! It was exciting to pose as a UMN student and see what other apartment communities were offering to prospects. This allowed me to see how 7west compares to other communities. […]

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You Just Got Shopped!

This was probably one of my most favorite days. The MIT and I went to other apartments (competitors) and we shopped them. We pretended to be cousins and I was going to school at Bethel University and he worked downtown in the cities. It was really cool getting to see […]

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Meetings on Meetings and Webinars!

This week was full of meetings. It almost seems like we had a meeting or a webinar every day. It did help pass time throughout the day but it was one after another. I did however learn a lot from both the meetings and the webinars. It was totally a […]

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Last Pool Party of the Season!

We were able to throw one more pool party for our residents. Instead of a cookout we decided to have a food truck come and serve the residents! It was a great time and had lots of fun!

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Pranks on the Intern

After work today I walked into my apartment and when I walked through the door I glanced behind the door and this Halloween decoration was waiting for me. Scared me so badly that I almost punched it! The maintenance team really got me!

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