maintenance technician

leasing specialist

community manager

groundskeeper

property manager

Bainbridge Companies

What is the best part of working at the company?
I really can’t find something good to say about this company…. If you are on site at a property, it’s almost like corporate looks down on you. Very terrible hierarchical power trippin

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They do not care to learn about what your day to day is. If you work on site at a “problem property” they will cut the budget and don’t care how bad you struggle. The entire companies struggles to keep staff because you are underpaid to work an extremely stressful,demanding job. Bonus opportunities are few and far between, you are promised things that never really come to fruition. Approval process to get anything done takes weeks. The residents are always phased because stuff breaks and it takes weeks for a simple fix. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
There really is no culture. The culture is “protect the asset” which is the property that is mostly falling apart. They really glorify anyone in a higher up/leadership position. No representation/recognition for the on site and hard working leasing agents and maintenance staff. They listen to all your calls all the time and it’s very uncomfortable. Residents are treated very poorly but also the residents at some of these properties are abusive to staff as well. You have to do a lot of research in property management to make sure you work at a functioning property cause if not, you will be miserable.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Walk in, deal with an ongoing issue you have reported weeks ago, get hounded by residents until you clock out for the day.

I am experienced in the Multifamily/Apartment Housing Industry with a back ground in pre-elementary education. I am an energetic, detail-oriented, self motivating professional and solid understanding of business and customer service skills. With a skillful work ethic and solid organization skills I have gained vast knowledge of communication and written skills.  

Successfully implement lease up community of 266 unit.
Obtain an occupancy of 92% with in a 12 month lease up period
Oversee daily onsite operations and financial performance of the community. Maintain delinquency under 2%, collect and process monthly rental payments.
Work along side of Regional Portfolio Manager, Vice President of Marketing and President of The Bainbridge Companies.
Supervise office and maintenance personnel, schedule weekly staff meetings and monthly safety meetings
Operate on a monthly budget of 2-3% variance between month to date and year to date expenses
Negotiate start up and service contracts for the properties stability, completed all property walks with construction.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Severing the relationship     

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
This company just drops you into a property, and let's you figure it out.  Luckily I'm a self starter.  But, no one even showed up to my first day of employment. It took my 3 days to get a computer, and 3 weeks to meet my superior.  There's zero communication.
I just took my direction directly from the ownership, who was also less than impressed with this management company.  I do actually need to give kudos to my accountant, he was so amazing.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
There's no culture.  It's every man for himself.  The work environment at my office was great. Because no matter how this company tried to throw us to the wolves, my team and I were determined to make it a success story.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The company was truly non existent in my day.  They honestly had no clue what was going on at my property.  I worked closely with the asset manager and we determined what was needed and how to go about accomplishing it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They were great company to work for always keeps you on your toes, in a good way

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I was in maintenance, I have been in repair all my life, it was stressful at times for someone to micromanage my job try to tell me that I spent to long on a repair, when they don’t realize that simple thing as a rusty bolt could cause a 30 minute delay.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Over all it was good, the team I worked with was great. We got along just great 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Rush rush rush, working in multi family housing things go wrong everywhere, everyday. Fixing issues simple from lightbulb change to appliance repair and a/c issues

The days are okay and works not too bad. The management from the office to the regional manager is terrible. You will go above and beyond and it will never be enough. You will have to train on the computer more than 1 time a week and not get a computer to use. All they care about is making money and they don’t care about you as an employee at all. I worked there for a  bit and while I was there we had over 6 people quit and go somewhere else and whenever they got next was terrible. The supervisor made me want to quit everyday had no idea what he was doing and made us do more work than what was in our job description which was fine other than no one seemed to appreciate that. They will not pay you what your worth and if they do it won’t be enough to deal with the company everyday.

The only thing that matters to BB is there ownership group. The company has recently hired executive level mean girls who lead by fear. You need us more then we need you. Remember that. Treat employees with the upmost respect. We bring in the bacon for the ownership group and company as a whole. Stop with the over micromanaging. Not to mention the 100 mystery shops per day will have you throwing in the towel in addition to the amount of work they throw at you. Let’s us do our job without interruptions, trust the talent you hire to do the job. Underpaid and overworked. They don’t train very well but ready to fire you for lack of not being trained properly to perform your job function better. Company culture is wack!

In my time at the company, I noticed that although there were a few good people in the company, the bad ones far outweighed them.   The company is based on favoritism (going all the way up to the President of Property Management), good hard working people are used and the ones that mess up are promoted as long as they suck up to the right people.  I would say as a word of advice to upper management, before you promote someone-interview the people they work with every day.  That would give you a much better idea of how qualified that individual really is, as opposed to how good the people around them are.

The company is ok but they have problems with promoting employees. They will start with a pretty picture just to get you to stay, but when  it gets closer to the time they promised a promotion their story starts to change over and over again. By the time you notice the games they were playing with you, you are still stuck at the same position while our manager who promised the promotion has moved to another property.

I worked for Bainbridge for 3 years and I dedicated a lot of my time and worked incredibly hard to only find out it doesn't matter. They have people in the higher-up corporate office who don't care what the on site employees have to say or about the fact that they are on site everyday and know more about what goes on. The VP of finance has never worked on site a day in his life and has such unrealistic expectations of everything. This company doesn't value the hard to find employees who work hard to bring success and it's such a shame.

The peer to peer support and comradery in your specific region is amazing. I did not want to leave but had personal reasons I had to. I wish that there was a way to ensure that all the different regions were consistent but I am sure that is the case with all larger companies.  Also some of the best corporate support when it came to systems training and support.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Maintenance technician 2 salaries reported	$21.25 per hour
Leasing specialist 5 salaries reported	$20.20 per hour
Community manager 1 salary reported	$100,000 per year
Groundskeeper 5 salaries reported	$20.30 per hour
Property manager 6 salaries reported	$79,833 per year

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