Regional Manager

It's 7 a.m. on a Tuesday. One community manager calls to report a delinquency spike, another needs budget approval for an emergency HVAC replacement, and a vendor contract is sitting unsigned. That's a normal morning for a Regional Manager at Asset Living.

What This Role Covers

Asset Living is a third-party management firm ranked among the NMHC top 50, operating across multifamily, single-family rental, affordable housing, build-to-rent, active adult, and student housing. This Regional Manager position is based in Denver and carries full operational responsibility for a portfolio of communities. You're the offsite leader accountable for everything that happens at the site level.

On the personnel side, you screen, hire, coach, and when necessary, terminate on-site staff. You handle salary recommendations, approve timesheets, and make sure community managers are developing, not just treading water. Performance issues get documented properly and escalated to HR without delay.

Financial oversight runs deep here. You build annual operating budgets, track NOI performance, explain significant budget variances in monthly written reviews, and flag capex needs before they become emergencies. You also monitor rent collections, vendor invoice coding, and ensure property closeouts are completed accurately and on time.

Leasing strategy is part of the job too. You develop yearly marketing plans, evaluate whether your teams are closing traffic effectively, and put resident retention programs in place that actually reduce turnover. When a complaint escalates past the site team, it lands with you.

On the maintenance and administrative side, you conduct regular property inspections, manage emergency response, review vendor bids, and monitor work in progress on larger projects. Reporting accuracy and deadline compliance are non-negotiable.

What Strong Candidates Bring

• Demonstrated experience managing a multi-site portfolio, not just a single property
• Fluency in budget development and NOI analysis, including the ability to explain variances clearly to ownership
• A track record of developing site-level staff, including handling performance issues correctly and consistently
• Familiarity with fair housing requirements and risk management protocols
• Experience with third-party management is a genuine advantage here, since you're accountable to ownership groups with different priorities and reporting expectations

The candidates who struggle in regional roles often come from strong single-site backgrounds but underestimate the shift in how you manage. At the regional level, you're coaching managers to solve problems, not solving the problems yourself. The ability to stay one step removed while still holding sites accountable is what separates effective regional managers from those who burn out trying to do everything directly.

Asset Living operates across a wide range of asset classes, so comfort moving between product types and ownership structures is a real asset in this seat.