Last week I had the pleasure of joining the accounting team for Cost Plus Billing. I put together countless pages of billing for each manager to confirm the costs accrued throughout the month. At the end of the week I had to scan each packet to the manager so they […]

The tensions between our day manager and the staff at International Plaza finally boiled over at the end of last week. A new manager at the building has been hovering over our manager for the last couple of days and it caused her to break down. She was in tears […]

Last week I found out that we have no preventative maintenance program in our company. I found this to be very odd because we use so many different types of equipment that require maintenance. I have been producing a simple preventative maintenance guide for our managers to use to reduce […]

Last Friday we were doing an inspection for asbestos at a property in the Apple Valley area. It was my job to let the inspectors into all of the units, where they then took samples of the flooring and ceiling.These samples will then be taken to a lab to be tested.

Yesterday i was greeted around 10am by a crying girl no older than the age of 23 entering the office saying she saw the 3 day notice on her door but didnt have the money to pay the balance. This is an extremely tough process but you need to separate […]

This last week I had my last team meeting with everybody.  Since I only have a few more days on site, this was my last team meeting and we had a home made breakfast, which was a very good way to start the day.

I have been assigned the tasks of getting a food truck in for our residents.  I went with pretzel sandwiches, which were a very bid hit.  This can be directly tied to our resident retention program in the way that it makes our community enjoyable to live in, which will […]

Today is the day of my community event for my property. I created the community event and we went with root beer floats! Thus far, all I’ve done today is whip up root beer floats for everyone and it’s going great!

It is difficult finding a balance between increasing rents at renewal time to continue to increase GPI, however when doing so you risk losing some residents.  We have a budgets amount for renewal increases throughout the course of the year.  It does not matter how much each renewal is as […]

We caught a tenant today stealing electricity from the hallway. We have already served him with a non renewal letter, and is set to move out at the end of the month. The eviction process wouldn’t be fast enough to get him moved out sooner. To end the theft of […]

We finally caught the person who had been painting outside one of our building entrances. His paint splattered onto the building and was never cleaned on numerous occasions. The tenant wasn’t the best tenant in the world, so we decided to hit him with a non renewal.