Got an alarming call from a tenants parents who said he hadn’t checked in with them for a few days. Had to go over to the apartment and knock on the door. I braced myself for no answer and a possible unpleasant call with the parents. Turns out he just […]
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Reputation Management Campaign
My weekly assignment is to boost our company’s presence on social media. I chose to increase the amount of likes we get on Facebook. It has been pretty stressful becoming the leader of the facebook group and working on getting it Bigos approved. A project like this would be much […]
Read MoreEviction Court
Today, I joined the property manager of the property that I am currently at to court. We had three evictions to go through. We sat through a bunch of other cases, some taking 30 seconds and some taking 15 minutes. Nothing too crazy happened, but it was a good experience […]
Read MoreAppreciation for Maintenance Staff
Days like yesterday really make me appreciate the amazing maintenance staff we have here at Silver Ridge and really all properties. It was really hot and muggy outside yesterday and I had to walk around from building to building delivering these move in packages. I was only outside for about […]
Read MoreMove In Packages
Yesterday was the 1st of the month and to welcome in our new residents we put a move-in package in all of the new move in’s apartments. We did this at our other property as well but at this one we directly put the packages in the apartments ourselves. I […]
Read MoreBroken Garage Door
Last week our garage door broke and is becoming an extremely costly repair. Before any repaid is done our management company requires us to get quotes from three different vendors. All of the vendors have ballparked this repair around $10,000 which is not necessarily in our budget, Because this item […]
Read MoreSlow Traffic
The past few weeks our property has had incredibly slow traffic. With lower traffic it has made each tour and prospect that much more important. We have several units that have been sitting vacant for a while and our vacancy loss is growing daily. This has forced us to offer […]
Read MoreMurphy Bed
Today I learned what a murphy bed was. We are going to be building a new building in Saint Paul and they asked me to look into murphy beds and other furniture ideas for small one bedroom apartments.
Read MoreIrrational Residents
Residents just think they can move out whenever they want. So today we had a lady come into the office freaking out at us because she is moving out of her apartment 2 weeks before her lease is up and doesn’t think she needs to pay rent after she moves […]
Read MoreThat is not an emergency…
The other day, we got a call to the office at the end of the day. A resident had a light bulb out in a closet. I told her that I would put in a work order, and that a maintenance member would be out the next day. She then […]
Read MoreSlow day in the office
Well today has been pretty slow and the phones aren’t ringing. When you have days like today, it is a great time to call everyone on your prospect pipeline and make sure people are still interested in your apartments. If someone hasn’t showed up for a showing make sure you […]
Read MoreRoof Scandal
This morning I came into work and pulled up our emails and the first thing that I saw was pictures of a couple on an air mattress on the roof of our building. These same residents have had many noise complaints, late rent payments, and we have been suspicious of […]
Read MoreTag Labor
Yesterday my boss and I visited with Rice Real Estate Company concerning the Medical Arts Building in downtown Minneapolis. Rice was looking for tag labor which is labor that is outside of the scope of work that is defined in our contract with them. This labor creates increased revenue for […]
Read MoreHines Properties Bid Meeting
Last week I had the pleasure to sit in on a bid meeting with Hines Real Estate Investments. Our 3 year contract with them had expired and it was time to put in a new bid to clean their buildings. We had the first meeting because of our past work […]
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