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One fun part of my property management internship with Weidner Apartment Homes is spending time planning resident events. The past couple of weeks, my team in the office has been busy getting our summer events planned and executed. I have really enjoyed creating the save the dates and marketing flyers […]
Read MoreI began work at Trappers Landing Lodge, this is 2.5 hours north of my hometown of Milaca, MN. I started with a long 8 hour orientation and begun training at the front desk and manager shadowing of the managers on site. This happened the week of May 13th, but unfortunately […]
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I finally feel like I’m settling into my role in this company. All of the new things I’ve learned are becoming much easier to do on my own, and I feel way more comfortable doing my job. It’s a blast learning the real world work that I will be doing […]
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Over this last week, the staff and myself at 222 Hennepin worked hard to put on our summer kick-off event for our residents! We had brought in a DJ, bartenders, and chef staff to pull it all together.
Read MoreThis is my third week here in Cleveland and I am learning more and more every day. I am gearing up to start giving tours on my own along with leasing. Towards the end of the week a few other interns and I were shipped back out to a property […]
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For the past few weeks I have been going through our portfolio of loans and completing analysis and Proforma’s on each of the loans. Typically this process takes all summer but I decided to try something new. I created an Excel spreadsheet that mimics the worksheet that we were originally […]
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Every week it was my responsibility to mow and weed wack this entire portion of the community. I also would weed wack the entire community as well.
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This is the third week into my internship and I have been able to give tours to prospects and new residents. I have been able to get three leases since I have started giving tours. I have also been learning about the lease renewal, move-in and move-out processes. Something fun […]
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The awesome aspect to the Dominium A-Mill Loft community is that at least one person per resident has to be an artist. I had the pleasure of helping the residents set up a few of their paintings in the main lobby. Almost all of the decorations displayed around the building […]
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Some weeks are just catch up weeks and require lots and lots of paperwork. I am quickly realizing how importing having everything filed correctly can be. My manager told me how strict auditors can be when they start examining your files. Better safe than sorry. It was very beneficial seeing […]
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Spent the large majority of the day getting lease renewals ready. It was interesting seeing all the different variations there are for each person depending on their needs. Corporate has a strong push about getting leases to the resident door in a timely manner.
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We had this hole for 1 week now. My first attempt at fixing it was a failure. On my first, I mount a piece of wood back there and cover it up with mud and smoothen it. Over the night someone kicked and the mud splatter everywhere. My second […]
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This week was pretty calm compared to the hectic past four weeks. I have been working on our properties budgets for 2020 throughout the week as well as starting to prepare for another grand opening on the 19th of July! Here’s a picture of my view from my desk!
Read MoreThis week I was fortunate enough to have my very first closing on cabin that I got to show to a client of mine a couple of weeks ago. It was very interesting to see how the procedure works. Everything ran quickly and smoothly, and am hoping that all future […]
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