Leasing Consultant

What You'll Actually Do at Bexley Crossing

This role puts you at the front door of a well-established apartment community in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte. You're the first person a prospective resident meets, and you're often the last one they talk to before signing. That means your day moves between giving tours, following up on leads, processing applications, handling resident questions, and keeping the leasing office running smoothly. It's active work. You're on your feet, walking units, checking curb appeal, and juggling administrative tasks between prospect visits.

Weinstein Properties owns and manages over 60 communities across Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia. The company has been family-owned for more than 70 years, and that shows up in how they operate: hands-on, relationship-focused, and genuinely invested in the people they hire. This isn't a REIT running a centralized leasing model from a call center. The leasing happens on-site, with real accountability to occupancy and resident satisfaction.

Starting pay is $18 per hour with increases based on experience, plus quarterly bonuses. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, a rent discount, PTO, paid holidays, birthday time off, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401k. You'll need flexibility for rotating Saturdays and occasional evenings tied to resident events.

What You Bring

Weinstein is explicit that prior leasing experience isn't required, and they mean it. What actually matters here:

• Strong verbal and written communication, the kind that puts people at ease quickly
• A customer-first instinct, including the ability to de-escalate when a resident is frustrated
• Comfort with shifting priorities mid-day without losing momentum
• Genuine team orientation, meaning you help where it's needed, not just where it's assigned
• Organization and follow-through, because leasing is a sales process with a lot of moving pieces

If you've worked in retail, hospitality, or any service-heavy environment, those instincts transfer directly. The property management vocabulary and systems are teachable. The people skills are harder to train.

Where This Role Can Take You

Leasing Consultant is the most common entry point into property management, and it's genuinely useful experience. You learn how to qualify traffic, close leases, handle objections, and manage the administrative side of a residential community. From here, the natural next step is Assistant Manager, where you pick up financial responsibilities like posting rent, managing delinquency, and reading occupancy reports. After that, the path to Property Manager opens up, and from there, regional or corporate roles become realistic. Weinstein specifically notes that many of their leaders started in leasing, which suggests internal promotion is a real pattern rather than a recruiting line.

The skill set you build here, sales, customer service, conflict resolution, light operations, compounds quickly. A few years of strong leasing performance gives you a resume that reads well at Class A communities and opens doors across the industry.

One honest note: this job has a rhythm that requires real consistency. Saturdays are part of the rotation, and resident needs don't always fit office hours. If you want a role where you're contributing to something visible every day and you're comfortable with variety over routine, this kind of position tends to hold people's attention longer than most entry-level jobs.