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by Michelle Z. Askeland
In order to gain a quick under-
standing of property managers in
Colorado, Property Management
Quarterly conducted an informal
survey. We received responses from
48 Colorado property managers from
seven companies who answered a
questionnaire about their profession.
We wanted to learn who property
managers are, how they became
managers and what keeps them
going.
Interestingly, not a single person
said he had a property management
career path on his radar in high
school. “In high school being a prop-
erty manager was not on my radar
screen; in fact, most people don’t
even know what a property manager
is until they get out into the real
estate industry and see the different
avenues people can take,” said René
D. Wineland, Transwestern vice presi-
dent, management services.
There were a handful who said
they knew they wanted to go into
real estate, and an even smaller
number who had some exposure to
property management through fam-
ily members.
“My father was a facilities man-
ager, and I had no desire to work as
hard as he did,” said Amanda Schuck,
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
senior property manager. “It appears
that I am more like my dad than I
thought!”
A majority of the property man-
agers polled went to college, often
studying business. Almost 10 percent
reported they originally wanted to be
lawyers.
While industry experience ranged
among respondents from less than
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