From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

Last Day at First Property

Today is my last day at my first of two properties with Bigos Management. It’s bitter sweet because I’m really going to miss my crew that I have here and really enjoy the property itself. However, the new property I’m going to is only 5 minutes away from my house […]

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Today at the Office

I’m still over here in Minnetonka, filling in for the full time resident manager. Today I had an interesting task of figuring out how to use our phone entry system for the front door. We recently had a power outage and some of the settings got reset, so it was […]

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Urban Legends Meeting

Every month, we have a meeting with our team which consists of the downtown Minneapolis properties; Vue, 222 Hennepin, and 7 West. Our team is called the Urban Legends, during the meetings we discuss how our properties are doing, new strategies that we are implementing, and how we can help […]

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Planning A Party

For one of the mini projects we have to do for the Bigos Internship is we have to plan a party for the Residents. I’ve planned parties in the past but never one with a budget. It’s weird trying to plan a party that I won’t really be involved in […]

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Weidner Cares Day

Tomorrow is Weidner Cares Day for the South Seattle Region. Weidner Cares Day is a day where all properties in that region close their offices for the day and spend the whole day working on a community service project. This day happens once a year and it is a great […]

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No Leasing Consultant

Two weekends ago the leasing consultant at my property quit unexpectedly. This has left our property without a leasing consultant for the past two weeks. At first, we missed his presence as he was a major part of our daily operations, but now we have embraced and are excited for […]

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File Audit

Ever sense I landed in Texas I have been working on a file audit at the property I am staying at. A file audit consists of looking through every file to make sure the rent price in the file is matching the rent we have in our online property management system.

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Without a Leader.

This is my last week at my first property with Bigos property management. We get to work at two different properties during our internship. Anyways, I’m at my first site and for my last week the property manager is actually out of the office on “vacation”. This is the only […]

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Weidner Cares

Today, we had our Weidner cares day for our north region in Seattle. We went and helped paint, cleaned, and did landscaping. It was a fun day helping out a family in need and getting to know everyone in the north region.

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Running the Show

Today, my manager and leasing agent both had to attend a meeting at corporate. Which meant that I was running the office alone for the day. Last week our cleaning lady quit so we also have to work together to make sure the building is clean. Between cleaning, catching up […]

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Corporate Job Shadow Day

Today at Bigos the interns had the pleasure of shadowing around a member at the corporate office. I was assigned to a Portfolio director who oversees a collective group of properties and makes sure that they are financially sound and performing well. It was interesting to see what he has […]

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Park Place East/West Start-up

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 […]

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