This week was a bit shorter for me, I only worked Monday through Wednesday. We had Friday off as a holiday for the 4th of July weekend, and I took Thursday off to drive home. One of the days I worked though, we held a lease up day at Red […]
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This week most of my work has consisted of processing applications at Red Rock, however I met the maintenance tech at Red Rock and I was able to help him with a few tasks during the week. I liked it, it was a nice change of pace. I helped build […]
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After 2 weeks of training I’ve been located to a specific property, Red Rock Square in Newport, MN. I like going to Red Rock, it’s a bit closer to me, and I have to make a long commute everyday. My coworker and I are processing applications for one of the […]
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A lot of training is still happening, the other intern and I are learning quickly though. We both received our work computers this week, they’re super nice. Based on what we are being trained for I assume we are going to be helping process as many applications for Velair’s properties […]
Read MoreFirst week is over and I am excited for the rest of the 12 weeks I am here at Velair. A lot of training this week and presumably next week, trying to absorb as much information as I can each day. I am learning about affordable housing and what Section […]
Read MoreThis week was very interesting in a way we didn’t hope for. We had multiple evictions this week, one from a resident who completely trashed the property and was over $10,000 late on rent. Another for getting their 6th lease violation and the third or fourth instance with the police […]
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This is my second to last week here at my summer internship, We delivered leases for the upcoming month and sent out late notices for delinquencies on energy bills. I have also been creating my summer capstone presentation. We had a higher than usual amount of maintenance calls this week, […]
Read MoreThis week was also very busy. We didn’t really have any time to do training, but we still had plenty of opportunities to learn through doing. We saw our first eviction this week which is often a rarity with Guardian since they use this as a last resort. It is […]
Read MoreThis week was a lot of day to day stuff, since this week was very busy with no maintenance training. We got a glimpse of some work that goes into real estate sales which I thought was super interesting. This is something I am super interested in, so it was […]
Read MoreThis week we put a big focus on roommate changes, giving notice to vacate, and moveouts. This is something that happens so frequently that I am already pretty familiar with how it works. We went into a lot more detail than usual since this is something I very frequently work […]
Read MoreThis week was bit more of the financial work that happens behind the scenes. We worked with the CFO on some reporting, as well as looking in depth at our management agreement to see what the process is like when bringing on new clients to work with. This is something […]
Read MoreThis week was very interesting. We covered a lot of legal issues regarding collecting rent and evicting. It was a bit different than normal with the off ramp that we are currently in. I thought that this was pretty interesting to see how we handle things when it really goes […]
Read MoreThis week was very fun and jam packed, even though it was shortened. We were out and about for a lot of the week going out to properties Wednesday and Thursday. We did some pre inspections to get an idea of whether some properties were in livable condition or not.
Read MoreThis week I spent a lot of time learning about stuff on the maintenance side of things. We covered things such as how to handle pest control issues, to HVAC problems, and Electrical problems. This was very basic, but I found to be good to know.
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