Today was my first Saturday working by myself! I have worked everyday from Monday-Friday with other people, and my manager thought this week was the perfect week to start on my own. I got one day off of the week, and then it was off to 9am Saturday shift to […]

I got to follow around maintenance for a day. I learned a lot. Our maintenance tech name is Colby and our maintenance supervisor’s name is Nick. I helped them in the morning fix the pool door lock. Then Nick went to the other property he supervisors and I assisted Colby. […]

I finally was able to meet my area director, Renee. She had been on maternity leave and just came back. She is very friendly and easy to talk to. She also is great at teaching. I walked vacant apartments with her and she helped me learn what to look for […]

Since Tanya only was able to spend a few days with the floating leaser I was put in charge of helping her learn the basics. This made me realize just how much I have learned. I really made sure I knew exactly what I was doing this way I did […]

At Weidner Apartment Homes they have a position called the floating leaser. The floating leaser goes from property to property to help the ones struggling to lease apartments. They help with curb appeal, advertising, and training new leasing consultants. We had the floating leaser come to our property to help […]

I have had some practice with our apartment status summary board and it’s basically a fool proof way to keep track of all of our vacant apartments and all the apartments that are on notice. With this board, we are able to communicate with our maintenance team with all things […]

As an advertising plan to try to get more apartments leased. So we did lemonade and leasing. We bought lemonade so future residents could have a summer refreshment while touring. We advertised the event as an open house and I tried to advertise with catchy lemonade themed headings. For example […]

The interns got to attend the MIT meeting at corporate. We got to learn a lot more about the MIT program. We played a little game with starbursts to learn more about each other. We learned about how MITs come from all different walks of life. Not all are straight […]

Unfortunately for our team, one of our leasing consultants is moving to Colorado. So, in turn I am taking on all of the responsibilities that she has on a daily basis. Her position is a leasing position, but she also does a lot of what an Assistant Community Director would […]

One very important thing to keep track of is when leases expire. This is important because you need to watch when leases expire because you don’t want to have a lot of vacancies at one time which makes a business lose money. Also, more people are willing to move during the summer […]