My parents both worked in apartment management jobs, and they wanted to recruit me at an early age. My father was an apartment manager in a small complex that we lived in. My mother did a lot of the maintenance house works around the area, and she needed an assistant manager. This meant that there was always work around if I wanted to earn a little money.  I did not want to as I wanted to work in the automobile field.  With this crazy economic and retrenchment,  I applied to work as apartment manager with my parents.  I was put into quick training.  I could mow the lawn, help renovate old apartments, sort through old abandoned property – all the standard stuff involved in working in an apartment building.

It is sad to get retrenched.  But hey, things happen for a reason.  While it was tough at the begining because I suddenly loss that comfort zone, I now felt that it is kind of blessed.  If not for the retrenchment, I would not have dare jump into apartment maintenance jobs and realise that I like it.

Apartment maintenance jobs aren't the most lucrative or glamorous of real estate jobs, but they do have their advantages. If you want to be a real estate broker, you have to be very competitive (certianly not that fun at such a time). You have to be able to make the sale time and time again, and that can be exhausting. With an apartment job, by comparison, you are virtually guaranteed perpetual job security. Do you know that apartment jobs tend to come with room and board as an added perk, as well as a steady paychec?. Even if the economy tanks and the landlord has trouble finding new tenants, you will still have a job. Every apartment needs a caretaker always, after all.

For me the very greatest thing about working in an apartment management job is getting to work with people one-on-one. With jobs in the apartments, you really are part of the community. You are the first line of defense when something goes wrong. If there is a suspicious prowler on the loose, people come to you. If they can't get in in the middle of the night or if something breaks in their apartment they come to you. Although it can be hassle from time to time, it feels good to be appreciated. Working in apartments lets you feel like the center of a community.

Of course apartment jobs do have their downsides too. There is a fair bit of paperwork, and when the tenant isn't paying rent or is vacating their room, you are the first person who has to deal with the issue. Nonetheless, if you get along well with the apartment owner you can be virtually guaranteed to have an enjoyable career running the operation. You can make pretty good money year after year, and always guarantee a place to stay. All in all, it is not a bad life for someone who craves stability in such dire economic situation.

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