From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

First Saturday!

Today was my first Saturday working by myself! I have worked everyday from Monday-Friday with other people, and my manager thought this week was the perfect week to start on my own. I got one day off of the week, and then it was off to 9am Saturday shift to […]

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Maintenance For A Day!

I got to follow around maintenance for a day. I learned a lot. Our maintenance tech name is Colby and our maintenance supervisor’s name is Nick. I helped them in the morning fix the pool door lock. Then Nick went to the other property he supervisors and I assisted Colby. […]

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Area Director Back!

I finally was able to meet my area director, Renee. She had been on maternity leave and just came back. She is very friendly and easy to talk to. She also is great at teaching. I walked vacant apartments with her and she helped me learn what to look for […]

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Showing the Ropes

Since Tanya only was able to spend a few days with the floating leaser I was put in charge of helping her learn the basics. This made me realize just how much I have learned. I really made sure I knew exactly what I was doing this way I did […]

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New Leasing Consultant

Our new leasing consultant had her first day of work today. She has worked in similar industries but never in property management.She is very nice and very professional. Right away you can tell that she is a hard worker. Her name is Tanya and I think she will be a […]

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The Floating Leaser

At Weidner Apartment Homes they have a position called the floating leaser. The floating leaser goes from property to property to help the ones struggling to lease apartments. They help with curb appeal, advertising, and training new leasing consultants. We had the floating leaser come to our property to help […]

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Apartment Status Summary Board

I have had some practice with our apartment status summary board and it’s basically a fool proof way to keep track of all of our vacant apartments and all the apartments that are on notice. With this board, we are able to communicate with our maintenance team with all things […]

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Community Yard Sale

On Saturday we had a resident event which was a community yard sale, we had a few residents bring some things that they wanted to sell and a fairly steady flow of people coming in to buy things. It was a pretty good turn out!

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Move in

On Friday I helped do two move in inspections for the people who were going to be moving in later that day.

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Done At Elements, On My Way To La Bella Vita!!

After a wonderful few days at Elements, I got the chance to go work at La Bella Vita for the remainder of the week. Both Elements and La Bella Vita are new construction, very modern, and breathtaking. La Bella Vita has a huge gym, a theater, a conference room, a […]

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Exciting Few Days at Elements at Briargate!!

  This week I got to go work at two of Weidner’s new properties. I started the week off, Monday and Tuesday, at the beautiful Elements at Briargate. Although, I only spent two days there, I got to take some tours by myself on Tuesday. Hoping that I got a […]

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Turn Key Property

Today was the day to get this property in tip top shape. I hauled the brush hog and the tractor out here so we could mow trails around the fields and throughout the woods. When the day was done, it looked like a whole new property.  

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Farm Prep Day 1

Once we got the farm listed, we went out to take pictures of the house. It is a nice 2 story house with a detached garage. It sits on 120 acres of mostly tillable land. We came up with a price of $450,00 for this piece. Below is a picture […]

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