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Sylvia U. Martinez
**** ********** **** ******, ***** 75217
Cell: 214-***-****
Email: ************@*****.***
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Objective: To find long-term employment with a property management company
as assistant manager that offers a challenging and rewarding career with
advancement opportunities.
Languages: Bilingual - English/Spanish
Education: Cedar Valley College -Real Estate Classes
Leonard Hawes School of Real Estate
Grace Hill Management Workshops
Mesquite HS
Employment:
9/09 - 10/10 - Assistant Manager - 312 & 324 Units - Greystar Management
Services
(Sonterra at Buckingham & Montoro Apartments)
. Collect and post all rental payments
. Retentive support to manager
. Bookkeeping, legal actions, daily bank deposits
. Lease apartments
. Renewals/Resident Retention
. File audits
. Type leases, maintain and organize files
. Maintain occupancy at 95%
. MMR, Pre-Close & AME Closeout
. Sure Deposits/Claims
. SODA's/Send delinquent files to collections
5/2008 - 9/2009 -Assistant Manager - 948 Units - Advenir Real Estate Mgmt
(Advenir at Town
Centre)
948 units with dual office and 20 team members. This large of a community
shows my strength as one who can organize, delegate, and successfully
communicate all facets of apartment management. My primary responsibility
is to:
. Collect and post all rental payments
. Retentive support to manager
. Bookkeeping, Legal Actions, Renewals
. Trainer on all computer aspects with E-Site procedures for all new
hires,
. Trouble shooting all apartment sites when corporate trainer was
unavailable.
8/2007-5/2008 - Customer Service Rep. - Dallas (Central) Public Library -
City of Dallas
. Check in library books and materials from book/video drops and inside
drops.
. Presort and temporarily shelve books/audio visual material.
. Load books/materials on carts. Work at circulation desk assisting
patrons.
. Load bins of books/materials into van and may deliver to other branch
locations.
. Move materials, shelving and equipment. Resolve customer complaints.
. Establish payment options for fines and fees.
. Update customer accounts.
6/2005-11/2007 - Property Manager - 104 Units-Highland House Joint Venture
- Owner Managed
. Lease-up community in a market with a lot of competition made my
challenge that much greater to produce high occupancy and retain
residents. I believe in continuous resident retention efforts to
decrease turn over and lower expenses.
. Developed strong relations with vendors to compete for better pricing.
. I set monthly occupancy and weekly leasing goals to create a fun
competitive driven leasing environment.
. I was constantly marketing area for new contacts to outsource our
community while keeping a watchful eye on the competition in our area.
. Often being short staffed and on a low budget, I helped with
landscaping, picking up trash, painted and cleaned vacant apartments.
9/2000-9/2004 - Assistant Manager - 265 Units - Credit Finance Corp.
(Leigh Ann Apartments)
. Collections and Retentive Support to Manager,
. Bookkeeping AP/AR, Legal Actions,
. Post incoming rent manually on ledger cards using Peg-Board System.
. Help to achieve occupancy from 82% to 97% within 5 months
. Strong Marketing & Resident Retention.
1/1995- 7/1997 - Property Manager - 172 Units - Southwest Housing
Management -
172 unit community and 7 employees. I began working here as assistant
manager and within 3 months was promoted to property manager.
(Melody Place Apartments)
. I assisted in the lease up of this LIHTC community from 85% occupancy
to 98% in less than 6 months with strong marketing and resident
retention.
. Trained all new hires and sister property managers on Rent Roll
software.
. Collect and post all rental payments on Rent Roll
. Bookkeeping AP/AR, legal actions
. Followed all Fair Housing and Federal Tax Credit Laws.
Advanced Skills:
20 years of excellent customer service, Typing - 40 WPM.
Achievements, Awards and Certifications:
Greystar Super Star Shop Award - 4th Quarter -2009
Advenir - Associate of the Month - March, April & May 2009
Credit Finance Corp - Leasing Superstar - 1st Place '02 - '03
Southwest Housing - Lowest Delinquency/Bad Debt Collections Award 1996
Leonard- Hawes School of Real Estate Loan Officer Certificate - 2004
State of Texas Certified Teacher Aide - 2001
Fair Housing Certification
Grace Hill Management Workshops
Computer Software :
Rent Roll, AMSI, E- Site, E-Service, Yardi, Yieldstar, Bluemoon, Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel
References Available Upon Request