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Responsibilities:
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Using technology to generate traffic
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Monitoring and managing your community’s reputation
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Modeling a relationship sales process and evaluating personal sales performance
Credential Education
- Building relationships with residents and creating a sense of community
- Shopping the competition while building relationships with competitors
- Applying fair housing laws and communicating rental criteria
- Creating effective marketing plans
- Qualifying prospective residents according to the rental policy
Skills
1. General Sales Skills – Connecting and identifying the needs of the prospect to match them to the right rental home.
2. Customer Service – Assisting all internal and external customers with their needs within the rental community
3. Marketing Strategy & Techniques – Identifying and using social media, traditional marketing and technology software to promote the community.
4. Property Management – Demonstrating a general understanding of legal guidelines and day-to-day leasing operations of a rental community.
5. Communication – Effectively conveying information-in multiple forms to residents, team members and management.
Compensation
Leasing Compensation
- Median Base Salary: $39,000
- 75th Percentile Base Salary: $48,800
Assistant Manager Compensation
- Median Base Salary: $49,200
- 75th Percentile Base Salary: $59,400
Types of Communities
- Conventional Housing or Affordable Housing
- Build to Rent
- Student Housing
- Military Housing
- Active Adult Housing
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Responsibilities:
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Processing work orders correctly in a timely fashion, and to residents' satisfaction
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Managing electrical services and repairs
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Implementing preventive maintenance schedules
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Making repair and replacement decisions
Maintenance Plus

Responsibilities:
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Effectively implementing changes and securing buy-in from your staff
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Working with staff and residents to resolve conflicts
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Properly identifying and utilizing all available resources
Responsibilities:
- Incorporating energy efficiency measures in occupied & vacant apartment homes and common areas.
- Identifying the benefits and impacts of energy efficiency for multiple stakeholders--on-site managers, owners/investors, maintenance teams and residents
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Installing and monitoring energy efficient products
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Evaluating the effectiveness of energy efficiency performance and upgrades over time
Credential Education
- Processing work orders correctly, in a timely fashion, and to residents' satisfaction
- Performing HVAC services and repairs
- Complying with Fair Housing regulation
- Reporting and documenting maintenance activities, in compliance with company policy and regulation
- Establishing procedures for maintaining recreational facilities and common areas
- Engaging in clear and respectful communication with residents, team members, contractors and suppliers
- Performing HVAC services and repairs
- Reporting and documenting maintenance activities in compliance with company policy and regulation
- Ensuring curb appeal, property inspection, and routine daily maintenance
- Establishing procedures for maintaining recreational facilities and common areas
- Making decisions on when to repair and replace assets
- Demonstrating professional behavior patterns, communication skills, and appearance
- Engaging in clear and respectful communication with residents, team members, and contractors
Skills
1. HVAC – Servicing and repairing multiple types of HVAC systems on the community.
2. Facility Management & Maintenance – Managing a community and a team: Including mechanical function, appearance and record keeping.
3. Plumbing – Assessing and repairing plumbing issues that may arise.
4. Construction Painting – Demonstrating proficiency in painting with different paint finishes.
5. Regulation & Legal Compliance – Understanding all legal regulations and codes supplied by governing bodies.
1. Initiative and Leadership - Training, coaching and mentoring team members to meet expected outcomes.
2. HVAC – Servicing and repairing multiple types of HVAC systems on the community.
3. Customer Service – Communicating with residents, suppliers and management teams with clear thoughts and ideas.
4. Facility Management & Maintenance – Managing a community and a team: Including mechanical function, appearance and record keeping.
5. Plumbing – Assessing and repairing plumbing issues that may arise.
Compensation
Maintenance Tech Compensation
- Median Base Salary: $45,200
- 75th Percentile Base Salary: $51,000
Maintenance Supervisor Compensation
- Median Base Salary: $63,000
- 75th Percentile Base Salary: $74,800
Types of Communities
- Conventional Housing or Affordable Housing
- Build to Rent
- Student Housing
- Military Housing
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Responsibilities:
- Monitoring property maintenance
- Engaging in human resources
- Creating effective marketing/leasing and finance plans
Responsibilities:
- Managing risk through inspections, follow-up procedures and incident reporting compliance
- Monitoring property maintenance
- Engaging in human resources
- Creating effective marketing/leasing and finance plans
Responsibilities:
- Understanding key differences between managing traditional rental housing and student housing
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Monitoring property maintenance
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Engaging in human resources
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Creating effective marketing/leasing and finance plans
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Utilizing risk management
Credential Education
- Recruiting high-performing employees
- Managing employee performance, engagement, and retention
- Minimizing conflict through stakeholder communications
- Managing risk through inspections, follow-up procedures, and incident reporting compliance
- Exhibiting awareness of regulatory agency oversight of assisted housing
- Evaluating and reporting property performance using key performance indicators
- Sales team management and product readiness
- Equitable treatment of current and potential residents
- Enforcement of company policy, in compliance with laws and regulations
- Property inspections
- Recruitment, hiring, orientation and training of high-caliber employees
- Maximizing net operating income
- Reporting property performance honestly and accurately
Skills
1. Initiative & Leadership – Providing training, coaching and goal setting to multiple teams within a portfolio.
2. Property Management – Overseeing the overall operations of multiple communities: including but not limited to Financials, Community Condition and overall function of the Community.
3. Customer Service – Handling the most extreme cases of internal and external customer issues.
4. Communication – Demonstrating the ability to express clear thoughts and ideas to multiple levels of stakeholders. Reporting on community performance on various platforms.
5. Personal Attributes – Working independently and as a part of the team and modeling the ability to be a problem solver to achieve the desired outcomes of the owners and management company.
1. Property Management – Providing complete oversight of the day-to-day operations of the community including financial, regulatory and consumer management.
2. Marketing Strategy and Techniques – Providing team members guidance for the marketing efforts of the community.
3. Customer Service – Making sure both internal and external relationships thrive, including but not limited to teams, suppliers and residents are maintained professionally.
4. Initiative and Leadership – Providing guidance and coaching to team members; helping to achieve maximum productivity of the community.
5. Communication – Demonstrating the ability to communicate to multiple levels of stakeholders within the organization.
Compensation
Manager Compensation (CAM & CAM+SH)
- Median Base Salary: $70,900
- 75th Percentile Base Salary: $82,600
Regional Manager Compensation (CAPS)
- Median Base Salary: $136,500
- 75th Percentile Base Salary: $163,800
Types of Communities
- Conventional Housing or Affordable Housing
- Build to Rent
- Student Housing
- Military Housing
- Active Adult Living
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Responsibilities:
- Understanding how economic conditions have impacted the rental housing industry
- Defining various types of rental housing
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Understanding the impact of pricing and lease management on a property’s financial performance
Enhanced Skills
- Understanding how economic conditions have impacted the apartment industry
- Defining various types of multifamily housing
- Understanding the impact of pricing and lease management on a property’s financial performance
- Understanding the inner structure of the apartment associations
- Communicating using industry terms and acronyms
- Reviewing property and company organizational charts
- Recognizing business resources to maximize selling opportunities
- Learning methods for positioning products/services based on the goals of an apartment community
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