About the Role
The Property Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations, tenant experience, financial performance, and overall success of multiple residential and mixed-use properties. This role ensures properties are well-maintained, fully occupied, operating efficiently, and aligned with company standards, budget expectations, regulatory requirements, and resident needs. The Property Manager serves as the primary operational leader, creating a positive resident experience, supporting site teams, maintaining vendor relationships, and ensuring issues are addressed quickly and professionally. The first priority is the tenant/customer experience, leading with responsiveness, accountability, professionalism, and care while protecting the asset's performance. Direct property management experience is not required; training will be provided.
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily operations across assigned residential and mixed-use properties.
- Ensure each property meets company standards for cleanliness, safety, maintenance, curb appeal, resident experience, and operational performance.
- Conduct regular site visits to inspect property conditions, common areas, vacant units, maintenance needs, safety concerns, and compliance items.
- Ensure site teams are following company policies, procedures, operating standards, and best practices.
- Coordinate with maintenance teams to ensure work orders, preventative maintenance, repairs, turnovers, and capital improvements are completed timely and effectively.
- Monitor property conditions and identify issues that may impact resident satisfaction, occupancy, asset performance, or compliance.
- Partner with internal teams to support property transitions, lease-up, construction activity, maintenance planning, and operational improvements.
- Ensure assigned properties are operating consistently and professionally across the portfolio.
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for resident experience across assigned properties.
- Ensure resident concerns, complaints, questions, and service issues are addressed promptly, professionally, and respectfully.
- Build strong relationships with residents by creating a responsive, customer-focused property experience.
- Manage escalated tenant concerns and work with the appropriate internal teams to drive timely resolution.
- Oversee resident communication related to maintenance, lease renewals, inspections, property updates, disruptions, and policy reminders.
- Support resident engagement initiatives that improve retention, referrals, and community satisfaction.
- Ensure all resident interactions reflect fairness, consistency, professionalism, and compliance with Fair Housing requirements.
- Partner with legal, leadership, and internal teams when tenant disputes, lease violations, or escalated issues require additional support.
- Monitor occupancy, vacancy, renewals, move-ins, move-outs, and leasing activity across assigned properties.
- Partner with Leasing to support occupancy goals, reduce vacancy loss, and improve lease-up performance.
- Oversee lease renewals, rent adjustments, and resident retention efforts.
- Monitor unit availability, turnover timelines, pricing concerns, and marketability of units.
- Ensure vacant units are ready, clean, safe, and marketable in partnership with Maintenance and Leasing.
- Identify barriers to occupancy, including property condition, maintenance delays, resident dissatisfaction, pricing, or communication gaps.
- Support retention strategies that improve resident satisfaction and reduce unnecessary turnover.
- Ensure lease administration and resident documentation are accurate, timely, and compliant.
- Monitor financial performance across assigned properties, including rent collections, delinquency, occupancy, expenses, and budget performance.
- Partner with the Assistant General Manager and Finance to understand property-level financial results and performance trends.
- Support timely rent collection and delinquency follow-up in accordance with company policy and legal requirements.
- Identify opportunities to increase revenue, reduce expenses, improve efficiency, and protect NOI.
- Review property expenses and identify unusual trends, recurring issues, or cost-control opportunities.
- Escalate financial risks, collection concerns, occupancy issues, or expense concerns to the Assistant General Manager.
- Present recommendations to the Assistant General Manager for review before items are escalated to ownership for approval.
- Partner effectively with site, leasing, and maintenance team members to support property goals and day-to-day operations.
- Communicate expectations, priorities, service standards, and operational needs clearly and professionally.
- Provide guidance, support, and knowledge sharing within the scope of the role.
- Help ensure team members understand property goals, resident service expectations, compliance requirements, and operating standards.
- Support the onboarding and training of new team members by sharing processes, resources, and property-specific information.
- Identify concerns, gaps, or recurring issues and escalate them to the appropriate manager or leadership team.
- Encourage teamwork, accountability, ownership, and strong communication across properties.
- Lead by example through professionalism, responsiveness, follow-through, collaboration, and resident service.
- Partner with Maintenance leadership and technicians to ensure resident work orders are completed timely and professionally.
- Monitor open work orders, recurring maintenance issues, emergency repairs, and resident complaints related to maintenance.
- Support preventative maintenance planning and execution across assigned properties.
- Ensure maintenance priorities are aligned with resident safety, habitability, property condition, and business needs.
- Monitor unit turns and ensure units are prepared for leasing within established timelines.
- Identify property condition issues that may require capital planning, vendor support, or leadership review.
- Communicate maintenance-related updates to residents when work impacts access, utilities, comfort, or property use.
- Ensure assigned properties operate in compliance with local, state, and federal requirements, including Fair Housing, safety requirements, lease standards, and property regulations.
- Oversee inspections, audits, notices, documentation, and regulatory requirements for assigned properties.
- Ensure lease files, resident records, notices, and property documentation are accurate and properly maintained.
- Identify potential risks and take proactive steps to reduce liability, resident dissatisfaction, safety concerns, and compliance exposure.
- Partner with leadership, legal, HR, and internal teams when escalated compliance or risk issues arise.
- Ensure team members understand and follow compliance expectations.
- Maintain confidentiality and professionalism when handling resident, employee, financial, or sensitive property information.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with vendors, contractors, municipalities, inspectors, internal teams, and external stakeholders.
- Coordinate vendor work as needed to support property operations, maintenance, repairs, inspections, and capital projects.
- Monitor vendor quality, responsiveness, professionalism, and cost-effectiveness.
- Escalate vendor concerns to the Assistant General Manager when performance, pricing, or service quality does not meet expectations.
- Ensure vendor activity is coordinated in a way that minimizes disruption to residents and property operations.
- Prepare and review regular reporting related to occupancy, tenant retention, delinquency, collections, resident concerns, maintenance issues, property condition, budget performance, and operational risks.
- Provide updates to the Assistant General Manager on property performance, escalated issues, and recommended actions.
- Participate in regular cross-functional reporting and property performance meetings.
- Identify trends, recurring issues, and improvement opportunities across assigned properties.
- Provide insight and recommendations to improve property operations, resident experience, financial performance, and team execution.
- Present recommendations to the Assistant General Manager for review and approval before escalation to ownership.
Requirements
- Experience in property management, multi-site operations, residential operations, customer service leadership, or a related field.
- Strong customer service skills with the ability to handle resident concerns professionally, fairly, and urgently.
- Ability to manage multiple properties, priorities, deadlines, and operational issues simultaneously.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to support, coach, and hold teams accountable.
- Understanding of property operations, leasing, maintenance coordination, rent collection, resident relations, and vendor management.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with residents, employees, vendors, leadership, and external partners.
- Ability to identify operational issues, solve problems, escalate risks, and follow through to resolution.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate documentation, reporting, and resident records.
- Familiarity with Fair Housing requirements, lease administration, property standards, and safety expectations.
- Ability to use property management systems, reporting tools, email, calendars, and standard business software.
Skills
- Property Management Systems
- Reporting Tools
- Calendars
- Standard Business Software
Location
- Western New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Direct property management experience is not required
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Real Estate, Property Management, or a related field preferred but not required
- CPM, CAM, or similar property management certification is a plus
About the Company
- At Good Carbon Co., we're redefining what it means to build and manage housing.
- As a vertically integrated real estate company, we focus on creating sustainable, energy-efficient, and affordable multifamily communities throughout Western New York.
- From concept to completion, we're a team of innovators, builders, and changemakers-committed to doing work that's not only smart, but good.
