Affordable Leasing Professional - Cherry Oak

FREEMAN WEBB COMPANY REALTORS, LLC•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for showing and leasing apartments to prospective residents. The position involves communicating with residents, developing resident relations, learning professional sales techniques, and handling lease agreements. The Leasing Professional will also assist with marketing efforts, conduct resident screenings, and potentially substitute for the Assistant Manager. Adherence to fair housing laws is mandatory. The role also includes attending various staff and management meetings, updating reports, and engaging in continuous training and development.

Requirements

Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school preferred; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to generate reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from clients, customers, and the general public.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Regularly required to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms and to talk or hear.
Frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.
Occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and smell.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual a plus.

Responsibilities

Shows and leases apartments to prospective residents.
Communicates with prospective residents and current residents regarding information, complaints, or problems.
Develops and maintains resident relations through on-site personnel courtesy, prompt maintenance, newsletter completion, and knowledge of community policies.
Learns and develops professional sales techniques.
Accompanies prospects to model apartments, discussing features and lease terms.
Makes follow-up calls to prospective residents who did not complete an application.
Completes lease forms and collects rental deposits.
Inspects the condition of models daily and arranges for necessary maintenance.
Compiles and updates listings of available rental units.
Assists with the composition of newspaper advertisements.
Contacts credit bureaus, previous landlords, and employment history of prospective residents.
Substitutes for the Assistant Manager when absent.
Adheres to all fair housing laws.
Attends regular staff meetings, weekly management meetings, and weekly department meetings.
Updates work order agendas weekly.
Continuously grows and improves through training and development.
Completes and submits weekly activity reports, weekly traffic and leasing reports, and weekly off-site marketing reports accurately and in a timely manner.
Operates basic office equipment such as copier, fax, computer, typewriter, calculator, and telephone.