Community Manager - Delaware Pines

Community managers at conventional properties carry a deceptively broad mandate. You're running a small business: hiring, collections, leasing, maintenance coordination, vendor oversight, and resident relations, all inside a single job title. At a property like Delaware Pines in Huntington Beach, that breadth is exactly what this role demands.

This is a part-time position, which is worth saying plainly. The pay range runs $24 to $25 per hour depending on experience, and the role does not include benefits eligibility. For someone building their PM resume or returning to the industry, it can be a solid fit. For someone who needs full-time income and benefits, that's a practical mismatch to weigh before applying.

The Scope of the Work

Reporting to a Regional Manager, you'd carry full operational responsibility for the property. That means staffing: hiring, training, and evaluating on-site personnel, not just supervising them once they're settled. It means financial oversight, including rent collection, delinquency management, and daily bank deposits under California landlord-tenant law. Budget prep and expense monitoring fall here too.

On the leasing side, you'd manage available units through approved advertising, conduct showings, keep leasing records clean, and support renewals to protect occupancy. Market awareness matters here. Huntington Beach carries a competitive coastal submarket, and pricing decisions need to stay calibrated to what's actually happening in the comp set, not just what the budget assumed six months ago.

Resident relations includes the full range: service request follow-through within 24 to 48 hours when possible, fair housing compliance at every touchpoint, and the general work of keeping people satisfied enough to renew. Regular inspections of units, common areas, and grounds round out the day-to-day.

What Strong Candidates Bring

• One to two years of direct property management experience, meaning you've actually run leasing activity and collections, not just assisted
• Working knowledge of California landlord-tenant law and Fair Housing, applied in practice rather than just on paper
• Comfort in property management software alongside Microsoft Office
• Genuine organizational discipline, because a community manager without a system for tracking delinquency, open work orders, and lease expirations will feel it quickly
• A college degree or relevant coursework, preferred but not hard-required

What separates a solid applicant from a great one here is usually the delinquency piece. Managers who treat collections as a monthly scramble tend to struggle under California's procedural requirements. The ones who run clean ledgers and communicate early with residents before accounts age are the ones who actually keep NOI stable. That discipline shows up in interviews if you know what to look for.

Sunrise Management describes its operating philosophy around what they call resident hospitality, a practical orientation toward retention and service quality rather than just occupancy targets. If that framing resonates with how you've approached resident relations in past roles, that's a reasonable culture signal worth taking seriously.