Leasing Consultant (Summer Intern)

Berkshire Residential Investments is running a summer internship for a Leasing Consultant at Tribeca Apartments, and it's worth understanding what that actually means before you apply. This isn't a fetch-coffee-and-file-things internship. You'd be working the leasing office as a functioning member of the sales team, handling traffic, conducting tours, and closing applications. Berkshire holds interns to a closing ratio of at least 20%, which is the same standard applied to permanent staff. That's a real benchmark.

The day-to-day is pretty straightforward: greet prospective residents, walk tour routes and models, keep the leasing office presentable, and follow up with leads. You'd also be expected to stay current on local market conditions and bring ideas to the property manager on marketing and resident satisfaction. The administrative side matters too. Lease files and prospect tracking require accuracy, and sloppy paperwork creates problems downstream that someone else has to clean up.

What separates the interns who get something real out of this from the ones who don't is comfort with rejection and a genuine ability to read people. Leasing is a sales role. You'll have days where traffic is light, your closing rate drops, and you're not entirely sure why. The candidates who push through that, ask questions, and adjust their approach are the ones who tend to get offers or strong references out of it. Two years of customer-facing experience in any industry translates here. Hospitality, retail, food service. If you've handled difficult people under pressure and still delivered, that background carries weight.

What Berkshire is Looking For

• At least two years of customer service or transferable experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to adapt to leasing software and other property tech platforms
• Attention to detail in administrative tasks and resident communications
• Comfortable working in a sales environment with measurable performance expectations

From a career standpoint, a summer in leasing is one of the better entry points into property management. You touch every part of the resident lifecycle from first contact to move-in, and you build an understanding of occupancy, traffic patterns, and concessions that a lot of people in other industries never develop. Leasing Consultants who perform well typically move into Assistant Manager roles, where the focus shifts toward delinquency, renewals, and operations. That path is real, and companies like Berkshire, which owns and manages its own assets, tend to promote from within.

Berkshire operates as a people-first organization with an emphasis on team culture and individual contribution. They manage their own portfolio rather than operating as a third-party management company, which means the institutional knowledge and decision-making tend to stay closer to the property level.