Leasing Consultant

What You'll Actually Do

Lark on 42nd is a student housing community in Tampa, and the leasing side of student housing runs on a very different clock than conventional multifamily. Renewals, new leases, and Turn all converge around the academic calendar, which means traffic spikes are predictable but intense. As an Experience Team Member, you're the front line for all of it.

Day to day, you're touring prospects, fielding objections, and feeding sales intelligence back to the management team so they can adjust pricing and messaging before it shows up in the occupancy numbers. You're also the person who notices when a clubhouse isn't photo-ready before a showing, when a maintenance request has gone quiet for too long, or when a resident's frustration is about to become a Google review. You track packages, keep the office organized, assist with lockouts on the after-hours rotation, and help plan and execute resident engagement events that directly affect renewal rates.

Social media plays a real role here too. Student renters research communities on Instagram and TikTok before they ever walk in. Contributing to that presence, and doing it authentically, is part of this job.

What You Bring

• A customer-first instinct. You treat every interaction as a sales and retention moment, even when it doesn't feel like one.
• Clear, adaptable communication. You're talking to students, parents, and staff, often in the same hour.
• Reliability during the moments that matter most: summer leasing season, holidays, and Turn.
• Comfort with shifting priorities. Student housing is not a slow-burn environment.
• Eligibility to work in the United States (Scion does not sponsor visas).

The Bigger Picture

Student housing is one of the more operationally demanding niches in residential property management. Turn alone, compressing hundreds of move-outs and move-ins into a narrow window, requires a level of coordination that most conventional lease-up teams never face. ETMs who perform well here tend to develop a strong foundation in both sales and operations faster than peers in standard leasing roles. The skills that translate: handling high-volume traffic under deadline pressure, reading objection patterns, and managing resident relationships at scale. Those are exactly the skills that open doors to leasing manager and assistant manager roles down the line.

If you're organized, personable, and genuinely interested in how a community performs as a business, not just as a place to live, this role gives you real exposure to those metrics from day one.