Commercial Property Management - Seeking Career Transition Advise - Residential Management
Hi everyone,

I'm currently a portfolio HOA manager, and previous role as a multi-family mid rise new construction residential property manager. Previous role allowed me to also engage with commercial leases for strip mall retail stores, healthcare offices, and mixed-use residential buildings with office space for law firm. My only issue is that I had a very limited experience with these spaces, as I only handled the maintenance and rent collection, and all the spaces had 5-10 year leases, which meant I never had a role in the leasing aspect. 

I would like to transition into commercial real estate property management, for retail/office space. However, all current positions require experience and/or automatically reject residential property management experience in their job postings. What can I do to get my foot in the door, while also being paid the same or more? 

I've done Break Into CRE (Justin Kivel) courses for commercial/retail/leasing and asset management. The job postings state preference for CCIM, but that's an expensive and long course, and I'll be going to law school next year. Are there any other credentials I should get, (ex. REFAI), or what should I include in the resume/cover sheet letter that will have someone gamble on me. I currently make $75k outside a big city, and I don't want to make less than that. 

Alternatively, but to consolidate the advise request on one post, I would be willing to earn less per year if I could transition to asset management/anything that focuses less on people and more on financial models. The experience would be worthwhile since I'll be doing a JD/MSRE in a year.
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