Apartment Managing

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jmick101

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I have heard that a good way to pay for rent in a high cost area is to get an apartment managing job. Does anyone have any information or experience on this? What kind of time commitment is this? If you are an apartment manager does that mean that you are plunging toilets and fixing faucets? How does one go about getting the position? Any feedback would be appreciated.
 
probably depends on what condition the apartments are in. If they are trashed then you may be spending a lot of time repairing. also depends on how big your complex is.

I would suggest calling the apartment complex of interest and ask them...just because we don't know the thoughts of all partment owners across the states😀
 
jmick101 said:
I have heard that a good way to pay for rent in a high cost area is to get an apartment managing job. Does anyone have any information or experience on this? What kind of time commitment is this? If you are an apartment manager does that mean that you are plunging toilets and fixing faucets? How does one go about getting the position? Any feedback would be appreciated.
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did it and would never do it again. We did BYU approved housing but whining is whining and you get it no matter where you are. The time committment is whenever you are home there is the potential for someone to knock on your door or call you. 24/7. In SF you can live in the north bay and get housing for as low as 1000/month with a very short 20-30 min commute. I am sure most expensive places have some way people are getting by.
 
Hey,

So you want to be an apartment manager in San Francisco? Not a good idea. I've done this and my dad is a manager and I can tell you that it sucks. Pretty much you will spend all day at school in classes and lab, and finally get home, only to find a pile of messages about this or that being broken, someone wanting to schedule appointments to come see the apartment for rent, etc.

I have a lot of sympathy for apartment managers. I'm not one anymore, but I live with roommates who have no freakin' clue about it and they are pretty much the classic tenant I used to deal with. Whine and complain over the most insignificant things: the door knob handle turns funny to the closet door that we never ever use, so we need it fixed. The faucet rumbles for 1.25 seconds when you first turn it on in the morning, the window screen to the window that we never open has two tiny holes in it. She cries a freakin' river over every idiotic thing and gets all huffy about how we pay good money to live here so things need to be fixed ASAP and how dare you expect her to take time out of her busy day to be home to let the repair man in. All the while she seems to have forgotten that she has behind the landlord's back snuck her boyfriend into the house to live and pay half the rent (essentially she is only paying $275 a month in an comfortable California property within 15 minutes of everything in San Diego), she completely ignores rules about scratching the hardwood floors with furniture, and she takes absolutely no part in upkeeping the lawns which she promised the landlord she would do because she "loves to garden".

I say this not to complain about my roommate because she has many good qualities that don't have anything to do with the kind of tenant she is, it is more to just warn you. 50% of the tenants you will deal with will pretty much self-ruin their apartments through idiotic actions (tossing massive amounts of junk down garbage disposals, clogging drains by removing the filters so it drains faster) and then expect you to fix all their problems...and fix them immediately, because they have things to do and these minor inconveniences just won't do at all. Trust me, after a long week of dental school, you won't want to deal with these people at your door
 
jmick101 said:
I have heard that a good way to pay for rent in a high cost area is to get an apartment managing job. Does anyone have any information or experience on this? What kind of time commitment is this? If you are an apartment manager does that mean that you are plunging toilets and fixing faucets? How does one go about getting the position? Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Don't do it. An idea is to rent a 2, or 3, or 4 bedroom apt/townhouse/house and rent out the rooms individually. My last two years of d school I rented a 3bdr apt and rented two of the rooms to reliable professional/graduate students. Sure, you lose the privacy of living alone but my rent ended up being 250/month.
 
TKD said:
Don't do it. An idea is to rent a 2, or 3, or 4 bedroom apt/townhouse/house and rent out the rooms individually. My last two years of d school I rented a 3bdr apt and rented two of the rooms to reliable professional/graduate students. Sure, you lose the privacy of living alone but my rent ended up being 250/month.
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nice, so you were a renter who rented out the other rooms for more than the landlord would have? how'd you find a landlord who was cool with that scenario?
 
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