From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

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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My First Community Event!

This past Friday I was able to work my first community event at The Residence at the COR. It was carnival themed and we had a duck pond game, a bottle ring game, music, food, musical chairs, bags, giant jenga and a dunk tank. The residents loved getting to dunk […]

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Mastering various software program.

For the first 10 days of my internship, I am able to learn the basic of this industry. The interns were taught to use different software such as globespotter, pictometry, GIS map to conduct reassessment on townhouses and single family homes. I have to double check the characteristic of the […]

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Taking on my Second Major

Over the course of this past week, I have begun my internship with Weidner Apartment Homes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The week has been a great learning experience thus far as we begin going into the next week shortly. This week, I was able to understand the core of Weidner, in […]

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Secret Shops

This week I am spending some time getting to know the competitors in the area. Swan Creek Apartments is located in a growing new development area of Fitchburg, Wisconsin. We have several competitors in our area in which I was able to secret shop. It is important to understand your […]

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Learning the Ropes of Commercial Appraisal

For the start of my second week at my internship I have been moving along quickly through my appraisal project. I have about 400 loans to get through that should last for the entire summer. I decided to try and automate some of the processes that go along with the […]

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The first week as an intern appraisal!

              I am currently working for the property assessing office of Dakota county in Hastings. My main duty is to helping out with the assessment process by inspecting residential real estates and verify it’s characteristics. The first week of my internship was excited. It […]

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Group picture with the other interns at Dominium

I started on June 3rd at Dominium’s corporation office, me and the other interns took a group picture before training. There were 7 of us interning for property management, 3 Stout students 1 Stout alumni, 2 from from St.Thomas, and 1 from University of Northern Iowa.    

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First week at Lake shore Landing

My first week at lake Shore landing we worked on modifications to a home. We put an archway where there once was a wall, re-did a laundry room and re-painted the entire interior of the home.

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Setting up!

Velair has many new buildings opening in the upcoming months, specifically one opening in Mankato next week! this week I spent time at the site in Mankato decorating and making sure everything is set up for the residents coming in! Here’s a photo of me spray painting some decorations for […]

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