Property Managers Wear A Thick Skin And Many Hats
Property Managers Wear A Thick Skin And Many Hats
It takes one tough cookie to be a rental property manager . If you think that used car salesmen and accident lawyers get a bad rap, you are in for quite a surprise. When it comes right down to it, the responsibilities of a rental property manager seem to run the gamut from just being really busy to downright uncomfortable. Suppose that you are the rental property manager for a complex of, say one hundred and fifty living spaces, or units. What is it that you would be doing all day long?
Well, for starters, you would most likely have an on site office from which you would be doing most of your paperwork, answering phone calls, setting appointments for showings and lease signings, etc. Part of your responsibility would be overseeing employees such as grounds keepers, secretaries and maintenance persons. If the complex is due for insect fumigation, you are responsible for making sure that it happens.
Part of your job would be to conduct routine inspections of the grounds, the facilities and the parking lot, to monitor what is going on around the property. This would not take up too much time, mind you, and you could actually make notes as you are showing potential clients around the complex, since you would probably be really proficient at multi tasking, but it would be your job to notice small details that may need to be addressed, such as a broken or loose stair rail or a chunk of the parking lot that had been broken. You would make note of these small repairs and add them to your list of things to have fixed.
Another responsibility that you would undoubtedly have working as a rental property manager would be the task of answering the questions, concerns and complaints that may come in from the residents of the complex. If the tenant in unit 142 has a broken garbage disposal, you delegate the repair to the maintenance crew, for example. If the air conditioner in unit 110 is not working, you call the heating and air conditioning repair specialist right away. When complaints about loitering, littering or the loud barking of dogs in unit 46 come trickling in from tenants, that call goes to you. After all, what can the secretary do about it, other than take a message for you?
On top of this huge pile of responsibility and obligation, you would also be quite busy showing vacant units to potential residents, collecting rent from current residents, explaining and enforcing lease agreements, addressing and dealing with tenant violations and other such issues. Not only that, but you would also be responsible for the nasty and highly unpleasant task of collections on past due rent as well as the kicker, which is literally kicking out a tenant for non payment of rent or some other lease agreement violation.
As said, it takes one tough cookie to be a rental property manager . Props to the people who can take pride and show responsibility, dedication and fairness in the face of the challenges that they often have to face. It takes patience, excellent people skills, the ability to prioritize and complete tasks in a timely manner, and above all respect for the people that live in the complex that you oversee. Those qualities are not found in everyone, but everyone can benefit from knowing someone who has them.
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