Leasing Consultant

Job Summary :

The Leasing and Marketing position is responsible for coordinating the community's marketing, leasing, and renewal tactics to accomplish occupancy, revenue, and resident retention goals by executing all activities related to leasing, providing resident gratification throughout the term of the lease, and property revenue goals are met.

We are looking for a creative thinker with a marketing mind! We are looking for someone with great resident retention skills, marketing and an outside-the-box thinker!

Responsibilities will include but not limited to :

• Performs all sales and leasing activities to achieve the community's revenue and occupancy goals by greeting and qualifying prospects, conducting community tours and showing apartments, processing applications, credit screening, and criminal background checks, preparing the lease and move-in package, and ensuring a smooth resident move-in and lease signing.
• Inspects apartments before resident moves-in and makes sure the apartments are in move-in ready condition and schedules any outstanding item to be communicated with the maintenance team.
• Keeps informed about current market and competitor that may affect the community's occupancy and sales, creates and implements short- and long-term marketing plans and goals to maintain occupancy, and follows the community's policies related to concessions, specials, and other programs to boost occupancy.
• Creates and accomplishes marketing activities to drive qualified traffic to the community, including managing resident referral and employer outreach programs, using internet marketing tools (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, e-mail, and other websites).
• Use the on-site property management software to track apartment availability, record traffic and leasing activities, manage resident and prospect data, and capture critical demographic and other information about existing and future residents.
• Ensures that the community and show units meet the Company's standards for show quality by daily inspecting the amenities, leasing tour path, and show units. They should communicate maintenance, and upkeep needs to the community's maintenance team members, to make sure the property is physically appealing and that the office and property are prepared daily.
• Follow-up with prospects and new residents to ensure satisfaction by sending e-mail, thank-you notes, visits, and cards or making telephone calls or other contacts to finalize decisions to lease and / or renew.
• Executes and performs activities in support of the community's lease renewal program by preparing lease renewal letters and lease contracts for residents, meeting with and contacting renewing residents in advance of move-out dates and ensuring that lease renewal documents are signed and implemented on time.
• Responds timely and courteously to resident and owner / leadership questions and takes immediate action to resolve problems and / or document and convey resident or other requests to the appropriate individual(s).
• Ensure that marketing, leasing, renewal, and resident programs are driven by the community's KPIs, and actively plan and execute action items that drive the team to meet their goals.
• Studies, analyses and understands the community's goals to align their daily work actions with the goals of the property. Understands how to create daily goals that will result in the property taking a step towards their goal.
• Ensures that all training is completed on time, that all projects are on time, and that they are on time at all meetings. We take our training extremely seriously. We have daily training goals, and daily pump it up goal meetings.

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