Hello! My name is Grace, I’m an intern this summer at Town Centre Apartment Homes in Eagan, MN. Here is a little bit of what my first week looked like! After taking care of my initial training and paperwork at the Minnesota regional office, I was able to start working […]
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Grace Crigler, Hometown: Winona, MN High School: Winona Senior High School, Winona, MN Hi Everyone! My name is Grace Crigler, this upcoming fall I’ll be a Senior double majoring in Interior Design and Real Estate Property Management at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. This summer I will be completing a Cooperative […]
Read MoreUpdating DOTs and COIs
This week for internship duties I was assigned the task to review and update DOTs, Medical Cards, and COIs. I reviewed all paperwork for every truck in the fleet to assure all DOT annual vehicle inspection reports were up to date, complete, and a copy of the form in each […]
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Hello! my name is Annie, and I will be spending the summer as an intern with Weidner in Washington State! I just completed my first week of the internship, and have already learned a lot. I started off the week at the corporate office in Kirkland, WA to complete some […]
Read MoreUpdating the Fleet
This week I worked with fleet management at Green Touch Lawn, Inc. The high mile, aging landscape/plow unit needed to be traded in for a replacement vehicle. Jason, owner, reviewed the process taken to secure funding. Then, we started the process of locating a replacement. We had to meet certain […]
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Hello everyone! My name is Tori McGraw, and I am from Milaca, MN. I am currently a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Stout where I am double majoring in Business Administration and Real Estate Property Management with a minor in Sales & Marketing. Yesterday I started my internship with Weidner […]
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Brandon Connett, Hometown: Woodville, Wisconsin High School: Baldwin High School, Baldwin, Wisconsin Brandon Connett, is a Senior in the Property Management program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Brandon is completing a Cooperative Education (Co-Op) experience as a Property Maintenance Manager at Green Touch Lawn, Inc. in Woodville, Wisconsin. During the […]
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For the last week of my internship, I was able to choose what positions I wanted more time in. I decided to help out in multiple different areas. I first started in leasing for the first two days answering the phone and giving tours. It took a few hours to […]
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This week of the internship was the corporate rotation. On Tuesday, Trinity flew all of the interns out to their corporate headquarters in Irvine, California! Wednesday we heard presentations from the East and West Presidents of Redwood Construction, a sister company that focuses on the renovation and construction projects of […]
Read MoreInternship week 7
This was my second week with the Property Manager. During this week I had the opportunity to see how the Property Manager prepares quotes for a large capital project. At this site, there is a massive issue with the gutter and drainage systems on all of the buildings. Over time, […]
Read MoreInternship Week 6
For the next two weeks, I will be working with the Property Manager. This first week, I was shown how to use the software Yardi to create purchase orders and submit invoices. I was also given the opportunity to plan a resident event. The Property Manager gave me a few […]
Read MoreAssessing Services Week 12
This is week 12 the last week of my internship, we primarily focused on putting all the new construction details into the system. We also did some sketching and RA work throughout the week. Overall it was a good experience working in Assessing Services, I have learned a lot and […]
Read MoreCastle cap-ex project and operations tour
This week I spent 2 more days at castle apartments, to help out as they are down a leasing consultant and it keeps things interesting. My first day back there was perfect timing as executives from Seattle were touring the property to look at the exterior doors that have suffered […]
Read MoreAssessing Services Week 11
This weeks primary focus was to appraise all of the new construction going up in the area, we checked to make sure what we had on record was accurate to what was being built and then put that into the system when we got back to the office. We also […]
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