From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

Traveling Properties

The week of June 10th. After a few days of settling into Centric me and a few other property management interns got to do a little road trip with the president of NRP management, Erick Waller. We went down to Columbus Ohio for a quick tour of one of one […]

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Getting a deeper insight into the field.

I interviewed one of the senior appraisers this week to ask about his career. I got to know that he had to take 3 levels of examination in order to get the title of senior accredited Minnesota appraiser (SAMA). There is a ton of workload to do working for government […]

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My first site inspection!

Senior appraisers brought the interns out for residential properties inspection at Rosemount and assist with the reassessment on the value of the residential properties we visited as well as getting the measurements of new construction homes. The interns were taking notes of the add-ons to the houses and put those […]

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Turn work into fun!

I am glad to have a chance to sit with different accredited appraisers from both residential and commercial assessing department, helping out with their duty. I get to have a brief idea of what they do on a daily basis. The licensed appraisers were knowledgeable and clearly understand what they […]

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First Week Working with the NRP Group

June 3rd was the first day of my internship working for the NRP Group in Cleveland Ohio. We started off the first day at the corporate office in downtown Cleveland with all the other interns also working for NRP, it was an exciting day of orientation and shaking many hands. […]

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Tour of A-Mill Artist Lofts

I recently started my property management internship with Dominium at their amazing A-Mill Artist Loft property in Minneapolis. During my first week, I was given a full tour of the massive historic property. They have many unique spaces that they offer to their residents, and they showed me all the […]

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Leasing Superstar: Week 6

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 […]

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Week 3 of Coop!

This 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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Sam’s week 2 at Coldwell Banker

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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Week 1 on the job!

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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Grand Opening

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 […]

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Taking on my second week of learning

I 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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Learning Appraisal-First Week

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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Second Week at Lake Shore Landing

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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