Regional Manager

A vendor invoice comes in miscoded, occupancy at one property slips two points below pro forma, and a community manager at a third site needs a difficult conversation documented before end of week. That's a Tuesday. This Regional Manager role covering a multi-property portfolio across Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Port St. Lucie puts you at the center of exactly that kind of operational density.

What the Role Actually Covers

Asset Living is a third-party management firm ranked in the NMHC top 50, and this position sits within that fee management structure, meaning you're accountable to ownership groups whose financial expectations are real and documented. You'll oversee all phases of portfolio operations across multifamily communities, including personnel, leasing performance, maintenance execution, financial reporting, and risk management. You'll work offsite but with regular property presence, conducting inspections, monitoring make-ready timelines, and keeping punch lists from becoming deferred capital problems.

On the financial side, you'll develop and manage annual operating budgets, track NOI performance against pro forma, and provide written variance analysis on income and expense lines running over budget. You'll review and approve vendor invoices, monitor large-project contracts, and flag capex needs before they become reactive spend. Ownership financial reports need to close accurately and on time. That's a non-negotiable in third-party management.

Leasing oversight includes developing annual marketing plans, evaluating traffic conversion and closing rates at each site, and making strategy adjustments when occupancy trends in the wrong direction. You'll also build and support resident retention programs, because in a market where concessions have been used aggressively to drive lease-up, keeping renewing residents is a more sustainable NOI play than backfilling turnover.

Personnel management is a significant part of this role. You'll screen, hire, coach, and when necessary, document and terminate site staff. Salary increase requests for community managers route through you. Timesheets, counseling statements, and written evaluations are part of your regular workload, not occasional tasks.

What Strong Candidates Bring

• Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of multifamily communities, with measurable results on NOI, occupancy, or delinquency reduction
• Comfort working within a third-party management structure, where client communication and ownership reporting are part of the job
• Experience developing operating budgets and delivering variance analysis with enough detail to be actionable
• A track record of building site-level teams, not just managing them
• Familiarity with fair housing compliance and the documentation practices that protect both the company and the resident
• Working knowledge of maintenance operations, enough to evaluate responsiveness and catch deferred work before it compounds

The South Florida market adds its own layer of complexity here. Miami and Broward County have seen significant rent growth followed by a softening as new supply came online, particularly in the mid-rise and garden-style segments. Port St. Lucie has a different demand profile, driven more by affordability migration from coastal markets. A regional manager who can read those conditions differently across three submarkets, and adjust leasing strategy accordingly, will outperform one who applies a single playbook across the whole portfolio.

Asset Living holds Accredited Management Organization (AMO) status through IREM, which reflects a commitment to documented operational standards. Candidates who've worked in structured, compliance-oriented management environments tend to find that credentialing meaningful rather than bureaucratic.