Leasing Consultant

What You'll Actually Do

Leasing consultants at Weinstein Properties serve as the front line of the resident experience across the company's Atlanta communities. On a typical day, you'll greet walk-in traffic, field calls and emails from prospective residents, conduct property tours, process applications, and follow up with leads who haven't yet committed. That's the sales side. But the role also pulls you into administrative work: preparing lease documents, tracking move-ins, addressing current resident questions, and keeping a close eye on how the community presents itself visually. Expect to walk units, flag maintenance concerns, and contribute to the general appearance of the property. This is genuinely a role where no two days look the same.

Weinstein is a family-owned company with 70-plus years in the business and over 60 apartment communities across Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia. They manage their own properties rather than working through third-party management, which means operational decisions get made close to the site level. That tends to create a different kind of accountability on the team.

Compensation starts at $20 per hour and increases with experience. The role also includes quarterly bonuses and monthly move-in bonuses tied to leasing performance. The standard schedule runs weekdays 9 to 6 and Saturdays 9 to 5 on a rotating basis with your team. Sundays are closed.

What You Bring

Weinstein is direct about one thing: they'll hire for attitude and train for skill. Prior leasing experience is not required. What they're actually screening for is a combination of traits that tend to predict success in the role:

• Strong verbal and written communication, including the ability to listen well and follow up clearly
• A genuine service orientation, not just a sales mentality
• Comfort with shifting priorities and frequent interruptions throughout the day
• Willingness to pitch in on tasks outside a strict job description
• Goal orientation and self-accountability around leasing targets

If you've worked in retail, hospitality, customer service, or any role where you managed multiple interactions under pressure, those skills translate here more directly than most people expect.

What This Role Builds

Here's what's worth understanding if you're thinking about this as a career entry point: the skills you develop in leasing form the foundation for nearly every path in property management. You'll learn how to read prospective residents, how to handle objections, how to manage a pipeline of leads, and how to balance competing demands from prospects, current residents, and your own team. Many Weinstein leaders started in exactly this role, and the company is clear that they'd rather promote from within than hire externally into management positions.

The one honest challenge to name: leasing is a public-facing job that requires consistent energy even on difficult days. Residents don't always arrive in a good mood, and some leads take weeks of follow-up before they commit or walk. The consultants who grow fastest in this environment are the ones who treat every interaction as practice, not just performance.