From the Field

Keep up with UW Stout coop education and internship experiences.

First Mini Model and Move-In Inspection

Today was the beginning of my second week as the intern/leasing consultant for The Club at Eagle Point Apartments located in Anchorage. I have had a lot of experience so far answering phones and talking to future and current residents, but today I was able to do something new. I […]

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“Shopping” Other Weidner Properties

I am one of the interns working Tuesday through Saturday so on the weekends, we are able to do a few different things than the regular operations. So, today I went with a coworker from a sister property to “shop” other Weidner properties. Basically, shopping just means we go to […]

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Using Yardi For the First Time!

Today was a very informative day. They gave me a complete run down of everything I will need to accomplish for the internship and they have me set up on all of the websites that I will need. The main ones that they use, are Entrata, Yardi, and of course […]

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Meeting the Staff and Taking a Property Tour!

I am the new intern for The Club at Eagle Point Apartments in Anchorage Alaska. Today was my first day and I was super excited! I was able to meet the people who I am going to be working with for the summer and they are all incredible. My Community […]

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Storage Units

At Southern Estates we are excited to be developing a new storage unit facility that will be located on 47th Ave. S in Grand Forks, North Dakota. This will be the first storage unit facility that we have built so there is a lot of buzz around the office. It […]

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Properties Tour

My internship is ending today, so yesterday, the owner of our company took me on a tour of all the MN properties. Since I was in TX most of the summer, I didn’t get a chance to see many of our MN portfolio. We spent the afternoon going out to […]

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Final Day

It is my final day here at Oaks Properties. It has been a great experience and I have learned a lot about the property management industry. I would definitely recommend Oaks to any Stout student looking for a summer internship.

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Resume Help

This is my last week at Oaks Properties so they aren’t giving me much work to do which is nice. This has given me the opportunity to talk with some of the employees and have them look at my resume. They have given me some helpful tips and tricks to make […]

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Back up North for good

I spent most of my summer in Dallas, Texas. I was down there at a few different properties, getting a hands on experience and learning while I go. I made some new friends, and it was a great experience. I came back last week, and I’m staying up here until […]

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Contrasting Styles

It’s very interesting to see how much the dynamic in an office of an apartment building can change by simply going across town. My first property was in the outskirts of St. Paul and this one is in Maplewood and from the unique residents to the traffic is just a […]

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Feels like just Yesterday

Today is the very last day of my internship here at Bigos Property Management and boy has it flown by. Feels like just yesterday I was waking up and heading to corporate for my first day and now i’m here at my desk packing up preparing to leave this place […]

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File Audit

Working on my last file audit for the Minnesota properties. Glad to be almost done with these because they are painfully boring.

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Last Week…

This is my last week as an intern here at Bigos Property Management. These 10 weeks have really flown by and I’ve enjoyed the time I’ve spent with this company. They are really good to their employees at this company and give it a sort of family feel whenever your […]

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Awkward

Today I sat in on a pretty awkward situation between an employee and my boss. She had a relationship with another employee and it was prohibiting them from completing their work. One employee admitted to it and the other did not. HR did an investigation and found out that their […]

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