UOA Assistant Community Manager to Assistant Commercial Property Manager?
Hey All,

First time poster here with some basic and potentially stupid questions. My wife and I just moved from Virginia (where I worked as an assistant community manager) to Arvada, Colorado. Ive been looking for that same line of work (with no luck so far but I haven’t been searching for long) but throughout the job hunt I’ve started to become very interested in commercial property management.

So, a few questions:

1. Residential and commercial property management is obviously different, but what are the largest differences, largest pros and largest cons between them?

2. Two years of experience at my previous job isn’t an awful lot, but is it enough to get a foot in as an assistant manager?

3. While I want to get my real estate license fairly soon, I dont have it yet. Will that shoot me in the foot for trying to land this type of job?

4. I’ll say right now that I do not have a degree but I want to continue that line of education in time. Is there anything else I could do immediately education-wise (even something as simple as a few books to read) to help make me more competitive?

5. To transition to commercial property management, what other positions would help get into commercial from residential if I cant get an assistant manager position?

6. What do you personally like or dislike about commercial property management?

Thanks again!


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