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Bring home the Trophy

This week CUNA Mutual had its yearly case study competition, The Herring Cup. This year our prompt was concerning reaching more of our members and potential customers digitally. I am happy that my fellow intern and UW – Stout student Andy Mitchell took home the trophy for Stout. My idea […]

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Evaluating New Opportunities

This past week I was able to start working on evaluating new deals with the help of one of our full time analysts. The process starts when a Mortgage Broker sends us a submission packet that contains all the important information on the property. Some examples of the include information […]

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Budgets!

Throughout my internship, I have spent time coding all of our bills and sending them to the corporate office in Seattle, Washington. This is actually one of my favorite things to do in the office. I love to code the bills into specific accounts and compare them to our budget […]

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Files, Files, Files

This week I have been working more with my main project for the summer. The part of the project that we have entered now is the final valuation/data entry stage. At my job we use a program called PAM for Mortgages by State Street. It is a really interesting tool […]

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Working from Home

At CUNA Mutual Group they believe in working from home if life gets busy. With this last week being the Fourth of July and with most of my coworkers being out of town myself and another Analyst, Dan, decided at 11am that we were going to go home for the […]

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Difficult Servicer

Part of my duties here at CUNA is completing files that may be incomplete and reaching out to our loan servicers to get any files that we might be missing. Most of the time when I reach out I get a nice person from the company and they send me […]

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Resident Events Galore!

One fun part of my property management internship with Weidner Apartment Homes is spending time planning resident events. The past couple of weeks, my team in the office has been busy getting our summer events planned and executed. I have really enjoyed creating the save the dates and marketing flyers […]

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Finishing the Project

For the past few weeks I have been going through our portfolio of loans and completing analysis and Proforma’s on each of the loans. Typically this process takes all summer but I decided to try something new. I created an Excel spreadsheet that mimics the worksheet that we were originally […]

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Leasing Superstar: Week 6

One of the main duties I fulfill as a Weidner Apartment Homes Intern is showing our available apartments to prospective residents. As my community is typically over 98% occupied we are experiencing a number of lease expirations and notices during this time of the year due to our residents purchasing […]

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Secret Shops

This week I am spending some time getting to know the competitors in the area. Swan Creek Apartments is located in a growing new development area of Fitchburg, Wisconsin. We have several competitors in our area in which I was able to secret shop. It is important to understand your […]

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Learning the Ropes of Commercial Appraisal

For the start of my second week at my internship I have been moving along quickly through my appraisal project. I have about 400 loans to get through that should last for the entire summer. I decided to try and automate some of the processes that go along with the […]

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Intern Addie at Swan Creek Apartments

I am now one month into my internship experience with Weidner Property Management in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. I am located at the beautiful Swan Creek Apartments which is 151 units. I have loved every minute of my experiences I have had with Weidner. I started my 12-week experience May 13th. My […]

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Intern Events!

This summer CUNA Mutual took on 75 new interns! With the exception of a few of us most of these interns have traveled from as far away as Texas to participate in the program. As such CUNA has put together a pretty extensive list of events that will be happening […]

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Not in the Weidner Center Anymore

This week I started my internship at CUNA Mutual Group in MEMBERS Capital Advisors in Madison, WI. During the course of my internship I will be reviewing the entire portfolio of commercial mortgages and analyzing the health of the portfolio. Currently there are approximately 450 mortgages for me to look […]

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