General Manager - Gresham, OR

What You'll Actually Do

This is a full-scope General Manager role at a residential apartment community in Gresham, OR. You're not inheriting a finished product and coasting. You're building and leading the on-site team, owning the budget top to bottom, and driving the operational metrics that keep NOI healthy. That means you're accountable for occupancy, delinquency, renewals, and every line item between gross potential rent and net income. Marketing the property, managing turns, approving make-ready costs, and keeping traffic converting to signed leases all fall on your desk.

Day to day, you're splitting time between people management and operational oversight. In the morning that might mean reviewing a delinquency report and coordinating with your team on notices. By afternoon you're approving a vendor invoice, reviewing a lease application, or working through a budget variance with your regional. The role demands someone who can read a T-12, spot where the property is bleeding, and actually fix it.

MG Properties has been acquiring, developing, and managing apartment communities across the Western U.S. for over 30 years. This isn't a startup operation. There's infrastructure behind you, including company profit sharing that connects your site's performance directly to your compensation.

What You Bring

• Recent hands-on experience managing a multifamily apartment community (not just assistant-level exposure)
• Supervisory experience: you've hired, trained, and managed on-site staff
• Demonstrated budget management skills: you can build, read, and defend a property budget
• Sales and marketing fluency: traffic generation, closing ratios, concession strategy
• Yardi experience is preferred, not optional in spirit
• Valid driver's license with proof of insurance

The Operational Reality

General Managers at this level typically sit at the intersection of people leadership and financial accountability in a way that Assistant Managers and Leasing Consultants simply don't. If you perform here, the career path typically opens toward Regional Manager or Director of Operations roles, especially within a company that promotes from within and has a growing Western U.S. portfolio.

The Gresham submarket sits east of Portland, a Class B and C heavy corridor where operational discipline matters more than luxury amenity packages. Residents are price-sensitive. Delinquency management, retention strategy, and controlled turn costs tend to separate the strong GMs from the average ones here more than flashy marketing ever will. If you've kept occupancy above 95% and held delinquency under 2% at a comparable community, that track record will carry serious weight in this search.

Compensation ranges from $85,000 to $95,000 annually depending on experience, with monthly and performance-based incentive bonuses layered on top. The full benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, profit sharing, and rental discounts.