Property Management Courses
I want to get into property management. Does anyone have any recommendations on good property management courses or training? 

[{"id": "dnb1kp0", "text": "you must get your realtors license first. Then call all the property managers around your area and talk to them or take them out for coffee. ask them about the biz, general thoughts. then see if any willing to take you around for a wknd. also there are courses online and community college. good luck! also let me know what market you intend to do this in.", "replies": [{"id": "dnb1y7c", "text": "Thank you for the response! I actually have my CCIM, would that be sufficient? And I'm in the Tampa Bay area, so I'll be looking here. However, I'm still young and single so I have no problem moving elsewhere if the right opportunity presents itself. ", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dndgrl0", "text": "Your CCIM is going to help understanding all the financials, budgeting, and accounting requirements of property management, which is probably about 1/3 the job description. /u/bytetacos is right though. If you intend to actively manage properties most states require property managers to hold a realtor license if they actively lease properties and enforce lease agreements. Now there are some exceptions to the property manager, realtor licensing requirement.\n\nI'm case and point. I manage a Condominium Association owned property in Virginia. I don't lease or rent out a single unit but I handle all other property management tasks, including but not limited to budget drafting, preparation, and reporting, contract and proposal review and approvals, managing contractor and vendor services, purchase orders, invoice payments, repair maintenance and preventative maintenance programs, capital improvements, expenditure, and investment analysis. There's a lot that we do but yet I don't require realtor license, cause I don't lease out anything. \n\nThe moment I take a job managing some like say multifamily residential property or commercial retail and/or office space. I'd be required to hold a realtor license (In the state of VA).\n\nAs for courses. IREM or BOMA take your pick. IREM has CPM and ARM courses, BOMA has RPA and FMA. Now jsut to clarify, CPM, ARM, RPA, and FMA are all management related certifications and designations, technically you can take the courses without going for certifications, but who does that?\n\nLittle bit of comparison. RPA (Real Property Administrator) and FMA (Facility Management Administrator) build upon the same knowledge base. RPA is focused primarily toward Commercial, Residential, and small industrial. Facilities management is larger scale multi-building facilities. Like I said though same knowledge base in fact 6 of 8 the courses are required for both designations and transfer. (I'm actually going for my RPA, first then my FMA).\n\nRPA is the BOMA equivalent of a CPM certification from IREM. IREM has stricted experience and qualification requirements, but the subject matter is relatively the same. (The RPA designation actually fulfills the CPM education requirement for their \"Fasttrack\" program.) CPM is definitely the industry preferred but RPA is right there with it. ARM is Accredited Resident Manager from IREM and this will cover the fundamentals of property management in it's most basic form. The knowledge and information covered in ARM is included in CPM and RPA, but CPM and RPA take it a step further and further supplement the same concepts and information within commercially focused, settings, and applications. \n\nA CPM can manage a multifamily residential. There's just a slight learning curve for an ARM to manage say a commercial retail or office. It's doable. There's just certain concept a residential manager might not typically deal with.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]