On July 1st, my company (ABM Industries) took over the cleaning of Park Place East and West. At 10:30 am we received our two $9,000 orders of supplies at each building needed to begin and sustain our cleaning efforts of the 396,000 square feet of office space. Our order included […]

Yesterday I found out that I will be assisting in the management of turning over 280 St.Thomas in one week (8/7-8/13). This will be a 24 hour process which includes managing close to 60 employees (full time, part time, temps) for 8 hours each shift. I am extremely excited to get […]

Yesterday, I started working at a different property. This time, I’m in Minnetonka filling in for a manager that is on vacation for the week. I will be here taking over his duties and working on getting real experience to help me moving forward in this internship and in my […]

The company I am working for this summer has close to 1500 units down in the Dallas Texas area. Yesterday they flew me down to Texas bright and early to show me how they do business down here in Texas. I have a two week stay at one of our […]

There are so many different variables and problems that can happen in the property management industry, that change on a day to day basis. Your bound to not know the answers to some peoples questions or how to handle a situation properly. Asking questions to the people around you is […]

We have 2 managers with medical restrictions, 1 about to have a baby and another that just resigned her position. This is where the intern comes in handy to help out all these properties.

Before the residents move in we have a checklist to go through to make sure they feel at home and that it’s clean. We prepare their welcome home letter, comprise a box of goodies as a gift, and do a final inspection of the unit to make sure it is […]

I helped file paperwork for some late payments this month. After a certain period, the outstanding balances need to get sent in for eviction processing. The residents can still pay before the eviction but they pay an attorney’s fee after we process the legal paperwork.

I did my first charges after move out for the security deposits. I worked off our sheets on the prices but I decided myself how much the actual work was worth in dollars. The room I reviewed was a decent amount of extra work to make ready for move in. […]

Today we had an interesting experience with a resident. We had a work order in which we needed to go into this person’s apartment and upon arriving the tenant was unaware of any work order requests. When the maintenance person went through the apartment he found some paraphernalia and complained […]

This past week (7/5-7/8) was one of the shorter and more hectic weeks I’ve been apart of in my short stint with this property. Due to the intense storm we had on Tuesday night 7/5, almost half of our property was without power until the afternoon of Friday 7/8. In […]

So this past week I went on my first showing. I wasn’t expecting to go on any showings at all on this particular day as I was still learning the process. But I was asked to do a showing and so I stepped up and did it. I was a […]

We’ve had a lot of problems with the children in our community since it’s summer. The children in the community have been playing in the parking lot a lot, have had no adult supervision, and are out until late at night. We had to send out a child notice to […]

We had a very busy Saturday at the Vue today. Showing after showing with constant traffic throughout the building. I had a showing booked every hour and some walk-ins between them. It was good to keep busy and on my feet, hopefully we will have some applications come through for […]