From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

Switched It Up With The Switchbacks!

I have never been a huge soccer fan, but this weekend all the Weidner Interns in the Colorado Springs region got the chance to go watch the Switchback FC game! We definitely had a kicking time!

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Packers At The Pool Party!!

Saturday June 24th, Camelback Pointe hosted a pool party for our residents! I was nonetheless proud to see and say that there were other Green Bay Packer fans down in Colorado Springs!    

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5 Weeks In, 5 More To Go!!

This is going to be the start of my 5th week down here in Colorado Springs and I wish it would slow down. I can’t believe I am already almost halfway done with my wonderful internship! Time flies when you are working hard, and having fun!

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Wisconsin Dells Estate Pick Up

This week, we had a pick up from the online auction in the Wisconsin Dells. The pick up was from 9-2 and we had over 100 people who bid on items. Out of all the online auctions that I have seen this summer, this was the most interesting. This auction […]

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Live Land Auction Prep.

Our company recently got a listing for hunting land in Adams Co. Wisconsin. The property hasn’t been touched in years and it looks like no one has been there in ages. So I got the task with one of the realtors to go to the property and mow trails throughout […]

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Johnson Creek Auction

Our auction crew had to head down to Johnson Creek to go to a property and pick up items for an upcoming online auction in Portage. We had to bring two trucks down with four guys and it took us most of the day to pack everything up and load […]

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Farm Clean Up

We currently listed a farm that hasn’t had much work done on the outside. I was given the task to go to the property to weed wack around the buildings and to cut some trees down at the property to make it look more presentable.  

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Chicken Coop Gutting Out

One of the properties that we have, one of the buildings on the property was a chicken coop. We had to gut it out to make it look more welcoming and to catch peoples attention. I had to rip all the walls and the ceiling out of the building so […]

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Building Materials Auction

This week was a very busy week at United Country Hamele Real Estate and Auction. The biggest thing that we had to get ready for was the building materials auction that was held at the auction barn late in the week. The cabinets came off the truck had we had […]

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Dirty fridge

Today as we were getting a mini model ready, we did some last little clean ups around the apartment complex, but as we were checking the refrigerator, we noticed that it hasn’t been clean out yet. There was still food stuck on the fridge, food in the freezer. So it […]

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Pool

Since I have worked here, we haven’t had a working pool. The week before I started, some kids who didn’t live at the apartment complex broke the drain for the pool. It took two weeks for us to get the part for the pool, and then we had to replace […]

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Enjoying my Friday

Good week of work. Got a lot done on the current project were working on called Country Side Co-op. Now spending some time biking the trials in Menomonie/Durand Wisconsin. Happy 4th of July Weekend!

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Creating the Community Newsletter

Recently I was assigned the job of creating the July 2017 newsletter for The Club. The newsletter is a way for us to communicate what is going on during the month of July. I used it to remind the residents of what fireworks are prohibited during the Fourth of July […]

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Insurance

Today I spent about 4 hours on the phone with the company that provides insurance to our properties here at A&J Management. I spend about 2/3 of that time on hold, and the rest of the time answering question about the location of the property. It was a great experience […]

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