Community Manager- Farmers Branch, TX

What You'll Actually Do

This is a full-scope community manager role at a property in Farmers Branch, TX. You're running the show: hiring and developing your leasing and maintenance team, owning the budget, driving occupancy, and keeping operations tight. That means reviewing your T-3 and T-12 regularly, staying on top of delinquency before it compounds, and making sure your make-ready pipeline doesn't stall when turns stack up. Marketing the property is part of the job too, which in this market means knowing your comp set, adjusting concessions when traffic softens, and not waiting for corporate to tell you the lease-up numbers look off.

MG Properties has been acquiring, developing, and managing communities across the Western U.S. for over three decades. This Texas position is part of their continued growth outside that core footprint, which means the team here is building something, not just maintaining it.

What You Bring

• Recent, hands-on experience managing an apartment community. Not years ago. Recent.
• Supervisory experience with a real track record of developing people, not just overseeing them
• Demonstrated budget management skills, including variance explanations you can actually defend
• Comfort in Yardi (preferred, not optional in practice)
• Valid driver's license and proof of insurance
• Sales instincts sharp enough to support your leasing team when traffic is light

Context Worth Knowing

Farmers Branch sits in the northwest Dallas corridor, sandwiched between Carrollton and Dallas proper. It's a competitive submarket with a mix of garden-style and mid-rise product and a renter base that has real options. A strong community manager here needs to read occupancy trends early and adjust pricing or marketing spend before the numbers start sliding, not after. If you've managed in DFW before, you already know the seasonal leasing rhythm. If you haven't, it's worth understanding that the spring leasing season in this market moves fast and slows down noticeably by late summer.

What separates a strong candidate here from an average one isn't just operational competency. It's the ability to build a team that performs consistently without the manager being in every conversation. MG Properties is investing in this market, and they need someone who runs the property like an owner, not a caretaker. The compensation structure reflects that expectation: there are both monthly and performance-based incentive bonuses, profit sharing, a 401k with employer match, and a standard benefits package including medical, dental, and vision. Rental discounts are included as well.

This is a real operator role. If you've been doing assistant manager work and think you're ready to own a full P&L, this is the kind of position where that transition either proves itself or doesn't. Come in with your numbers sharp.