Assistant Property Manager

The assistant property manager role tends to be where PM careers either accelerate or plateau. The difference usually comes down to whether someone treats it as a support position or a genuine ownership role. At Makowsky Ringel Greenberg's Signature at Schilling Farms in Collierville, Tennessee, this is a full-cycle position carrying real leasing and administrative responsibility, with direct exposure to day-to-day operations across a residential community.

What the Role Actually Covers

You'll own the leasing process from initial traffic contact through move-in, including rent collection, payment entry, and keeping occupancy data current. Service request coordination sits in your lane too, either handling it directly or working alongside maintenance to close out tickets. Daily inspections of the model, common areas, and amenities are part of the rhythm here, as is assisting with vacant unit inspections. When the property manager is out, you step up. That's written into the job, and it's worth taking seriously as preparation rather than just a coverage obligation.

Weekend availability is a real requirement. Collierville's suburban renter traffic skews heavily toward weekend tours, so this isn't a formality in the posting. You'll also need to be mobile on the property, including stairs, and have reliable transportation and a valid license with current insurance.

What MRG Is Looking For

• One to two years of residential leasing or property management experience
• Working knowledge of OneSite or Yardi (OneSite preferred)
• Comfort handling both leasing conversations and administrative tasks in the same shift
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Weekend availability, reliable transportation, valid driver's license and proof of insurance

MRG offers a competitive salary with a bonus and commission component, medical, dental, disability, and other insurance options, a 401(k) with profit-sharing, and paid training. The working environment is described as pleasant, which in this industry is less a given than it sounds.

One thing that separates strong candidates at this level: the ability to shift cleanly between guest card follow-up, a delinquency call, and a maintenance coordination conversation without losing the thread on any of them. That context-switching is the job, and people who are good at it tend to move into property manager seats faster than those who prefer one lane.