I'm starting out as an already experienced Property Manager with a new firm but want to move up. Any advice?
I've been a property manager for a decade managing a small property with 50 tenants. 

I just moved to a new role with a fairly young firm managing newly acquired commercial properties and hopefully continuing to manage them once they are leased.

But I want to move up and obviously increase my income along the way. 

I'm not sure I want to become a broker yet but I want to go as high as I can with this company and prove my worth as a valuable associate.

What are some things I can do or learn as I ease into this new path to help my chances of moving up the food chain in this world?
[{"id": "i5l1txq", "text": "I\u2019m not sure what your state requirements are but if you don\u2019t have your license definitely get that. I work doing property management/brokerage in Socal and have slowly transitioned into our portfolio being commercial. Our company is smaller in employees even though we manage over a million square feet of commercial property. IIt\u2019s so much better in California and I\u2019m glad we\u2019re mostly out of that just keeping some residential in the city we office in that have great owners. Do they specialize in a certain sector/s or manage most of their portfolio in office, industrial, retail, multifamily, etc\u2026?\n\nThe biggest thing you can do and this is important to understand with working for a new company, in my opinion, is that you can add value and gain more experience quickly with more independence and room to grow. Increase profit=get increases. How can you increase the value of the company? If they aren\u2019t getting the leasing for the properties they manage why? Is it because of their marketing? Is it because of their follow through with calls and tracking to get leases signed fast? Poor judge of the market and pricing? Do they use sites like LoopNet and Costar? Id be curious if you do management jobs like tenant improvements, the subbing work to vendors for easier turnovers, security recs, or in general your management duties? How can you build reputation with the owners? Do they have a CPA which is definitely important in commercial when collecting and dealing with NNN properties. Providing owner\u2019s accountants with clear easy financials like the 12 year profit and loss. \n\nDepending on the owner of the company this position may lead you to in house leasing commissions, bigger broker split. Sometimes lease renewal although these are the easiest for the broker to take or get a bigger split. Plus there\u2019s always at least outside leasing. \n\nLearn the different types of lease structures and analyze as many leases as you possibly can (AIR has good seminars  for this they do charge). Learn application screening and understand how much tenants, even the flow of their business, impact the value of the property. Learn how to create systems for the company to implement to make things easier for the future (ex. Creating a template for sending letter about items outside to tenants). CCIM I believe would be similar to getting a masters in finance but let me tell you it\u2019s expensive but a lot of CBRE people get that certificate.\n\nThis all depends on the owner of the company but no matter what focus on the learning. You can always take that and your reputation to create your own company if you ever feel capped. Invest in Real Estate don\u2019t just work in the industry and spend the income,it\u2019s a trap in Real Estate and Stock Brokerage people fall into.\n\nSorry this is a lot but I have thought about this many times for my own sake", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i5ln1w7", "text": "Bring in new business.\n\nMake it rain.\n\n^((Rinse, repeat).)", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i5m59i9", "text": "Is the new group 3rd Party/fee manager or are you in a fully vertical investment firms?  Different ways of going about climbing the ladder", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]