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Last Friday, the office staff at Highlands worked until 2:00pm, and then spent the rest of the day on a team-building hike with our Area Director, Brad. It was cool to get to know my co-workers outside of the office, and witness some incredible Alaskan scenery. At the end of […]
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This summer, I am working at the Highlands Luxury Apartments. This property is one of the higher-end properties in Anchorage, so its interesting to see the difference between management strategies at this type of property versus other types of properties. The people I work with are really fun, and I’ve […]
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A nice sunny afternoon here in Menomonie. Had a great day showing apartments and getting leases signed for two units.
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Camelback Pointe Apartments, the community I am working at, has been hosting a food truck event for the past three years. This year, I became in charge of picking and booking the food trucks that would attend our event. This week, I booked our last truck and finished the flyer! […]
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Steel has finally showed up. Now time for the steel crew to come in and start framing.
Read MoreToday we got 150 bags of new red mulch to lay down on our property and it was a ton of work. The things that we have to remember is how important our curb appeal looks to our current and future prospects. Everyone in our office, including our maintenance team […]
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Here at High Plains, we have a Community Director named Sarina, a assistant community director named Shenika, two leasing consultants- Mayra and Corina, as well as a maintenance team and a housekeeping team. Together all of us make up employees at High Plains apartments, which has 386 units, which include […]
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Last week, I leased my first apartment on my own, where I not only showed the apartment, I took them through the process of filling out the application, went through everything with them from their first look at the apartment to moving in them fully.
Read MoreToday I had to deny one girl because of bad credit and 1 person had to be put back to refer on both credit and criminal background. It was the first time I had a straight deny, so it was a little stressful and a big bummer to call these […]
Read MoreI got the opportunity to tag along with my mentor, Tony Lesicka, in a final inspection tour of the property. A final inspection is necessary when an appraiser is hired to value a new construction or renovated property. The client is a bank that requests two appraisals, an “as-is” appraisal […]
Read MoreAs the market changes, our vacancy is a little higher than normal. Taking this in mind we spend the day going through the vacant apartments and making sure that they are appealing to prospective tenants.
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Just looking at a set of plans on one of the many property projects we got going on. Interesting stuff! Learning a lot!
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Our first night in AZ, we did team building with many members of Weidner as well as all the other interns from around the US. My escape group and I escaped with 55 seconds left!
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This week Weidner Apartment Homes sent all of their national property management interns to Phoenix, Arizona. We toured apartment communities there, and met the C.O.O. of the company, Jack O’Connor. I’m so happy to work for a company that values all of their associates so much, even the interns!
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