This 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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Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.
Finishing the Project
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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Week Three at Lake Shore Landing
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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Practicing Leasing Skills!
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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Helped set up art gallery
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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Day full of filing paperwork
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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Lease Renewals
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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Patching up a hole in the wall
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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Fifth Week at Velair!
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 MoreMy very first closing!
This 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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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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