Property Manager & Maintenance Technician
Full-Time | Approximately 40 Hours/Week
Starting Pay: $45/hour, depending on experience and capabilities
About the Position
We are seeking an experienced, highly capable Property Manager & Maintenance Technician to oversee and maintain a portfolio of approximately 170 residential rental units located throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
This is not a traditional desk-based property management position and it is not a basic maintenance position.
We are looking for someone who can take ownership of the day-to-day operation of our properties while also personally completing the large majority of maintenance, repairs, and apartment turnover work.
The ideal candidate is an experienced, hands-on problem solver who is equally comfortable communicating with tenants, showing an apartment, coordinating an inspection, troubleshooting a maintenance issue, installing flooring, repairing drywall, or completing a unit turnover.
Our goal is to find one exceptional person who can handle approximately 90–95% of the routine maintenance and repair needs that arise across the portfolio, using outside contractors primarily for specialized or licensed work.
Compensation
$45 per hour, depending heavily on experience and demonstrated capabilities.
Approximately 40 hours per week.
We are willing to pay toward the top of the range for someone who can genuinely perform both sides of this position at a high level, particularly someone with extensive construction, remodeling, flooring, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and property management experience.
Property Management Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Serve as a primary point of contact for tenants
- Respond to tenant questions, concerns, and maintenance requests
- Advertise vacant apartments and respond promptly to prospective tenants
- Schedule and conduct apartment showings
- Follow up with prospective tenants and work aggressively to minimize vacancy
- Process rental applications and assist with leasing
- Coordinate move-ins and move-outs
- Conduct property and unit inspections
- Identify maintenance issues before they become larger problems
- Coordinate municipal and other required inspections
- Communicate with contractors and vendors when specialized work is necessary
- Monitor ongoing projects and ensure work is completed properly
- Keep ownership informed of significant tenant, maintenance, vacancy, and property issues
- Maintain organized records and documentation
- Provide a daily written update summarizing work completed, outstanding issues, vacancy/leasing activity, and priorities for the following day
Strong communication and follow-through are extremely important.
Hands-On Maintenance Responsibilities
This position requires someone who can personally perform a broad range of maintenance and renovation work.
You should be comfortable independently completing most of the following:
Flooring
- Luxury vinyl plank (LVP) installation
- Vinyl flooring
- Carpet and/or carpet tile installation
- Flooring removal and preparation
- Baseboard and trim installation
- Subfloor repairs
- Tile installation and repair
Carpentry & General Repairs
- Interior doors and hardware
- Trim and molding
- Cabinets and countertops
- Shelving
- Minor framing
- Window and door repairs
- Locks and deadbolts
- General apartment repairs
Drywall & Painting
- Drywall repair
- Patching holes
- Tape and mud
- Texture matching
- Interior painting
- Touch-up painting
- Caulking
Plumbing
- Faucets
- Toilets
- Garbage disposals
- Sink and drain repairs
- Minor leaks
- Supply lines
- Plumbing troubleshooting
Electrical
- Light fixtures
- Switches and outlets
- Smoke/CO detectors
- Electrical troubleshooting
HVAC & Mechanical
- Basic furnace and boiler troubleshooting
- Thermostats
- Filters
- Window and through-wall air conditioners
- Basic HVAC diagnosis and maintenance
The ability to diagnose a problem and determine whether it can be repaired internally or requires a specialized contractor is especially valuable.
Apartment Turnovers
The person hired should be capable of taking a vacant apartment from move-out condition to rent-ready condition, including:
- Assessing necessary repairs
- Removing abandoned items
- Patching and painting
- Flooring replacement
- Installing trim
- Replacing fixtures
- Minor plumbing repairs
- Minor electrical repairs
- Doors and hardware
- Appliance troubleshooting
- Final punch-list work
The ability to complete turnovers efficiently and with minimal reliance on outside contractors is one of the most important parts of this position.
What We Are Looking For
The strongest candidate will have significant experience in several of the following areas:
- Apartment maintenance
- Property management
- Construction
- Remodeling
- Carpentry
- Flooring installation
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- HVAC
- Painting and drywall
- Apartment turnovers
- Rental property renovation
You should be the type of person who can walk into an apartment with a list of ten different problems and confidently handle most of them yourself.
Required Qualifications
- Significant hands-on maintenance, construction, or remodeling experience
- Demonstrated ability to complete apartment repairs independently
- Experience installing LVP or similar flooring
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Strong tenant communication skills
- Ability to prioritize work without constant supervision
- Ability to manage multiple properties and projects simultaneously
- Reliable transportation
- Valid driver's license
- Ability to travel regularly between properties
- Ability to use a smartphone, email, text messaging, and basic computer applications
- Dependable and responsive
- Strong attention to detail
- Willingness to provide consistent daily communication and updates
Property Locations
The portfolio includes properties in several Minnesota and western Wisconsin communities, including:
- Faribault, MN
- St. Charles, MN
- Alexandria, MN
- Osceola, WI
- New Richmond, WI
- Ellsworth, WI
Regular travel between properties is required.
Candidates should consider the geographic spread of the portfolio before applying.
Work Schedule
This is intended to be a full-time position averaging approximately 40 hours per week.
The schedule will vary based on vacancies, maintenance requests, inspections, turnovers, and other property needs.
Some flexibility is required.
Occasional after-hours or emergency work may also be necessary.
What Success Looks Like
We are looking for someone who takes ownership of the portfolio rather than simply completing assigned tasks.
A successful person in this position will:
- Keep vacant units moving toward completion and rental
- Respond promptly to prospective tenants
- Minimize vacancy whenever possible
- Keep maintenance requests from accumulating
- Complete most repairs without calling an outside contractor
- Identify problems proactively
- Keep properties clean, safe, and well maintained
- Communicate clearly with tenants
- Follow projects through to completion
- Keep ownership informed without requiring constant follow-up
- Provide a complete daily update so ownership knows what was accomplished and what is happening next
Why This Position Is Different
This position offers substantial independence and responsibility.
We are not looking for someone who needs to be micromanaged or someone whose primary response to a maintenance problem is to call a contractor.
We want someone who enjoys figuring things out, working with their hands, improving properties, solving tenant problems, and seeing projects through from beginning to end.
For the right person who can combine property management skills with advanced hands-on maintenance capabilities, we are willing to offer very competitive compensation and considerable autonomy.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume along with answers to the screening questions.
We are particularly interested in candidates who have spent significant time actually performing maintenance, remodeling, construction, or apartment turnover work, rather than solely supervising contractors. Also, if you have photos of remodeling, flooring, construction, or apartment turnover projects you have personally completed, you are encouraged to include them with your application.
Pay: From $45.00 per hour
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- Have you conducted move-in and move-out inspections?
- Do you own the tools necessary to perform residential maintenance and repair work?
- What makes you uniquely qualified to perform both property management and maintenance duties at a high level?
- How many years of hands-on apartment maintenance, construction, remodeling, or similar experience do you have?
- Describe your experience installing LVP, vinyl, tile, carpet or other flooring. What types of flooring can you confidently install without assistance?
- On a scale of 1–10, how would you rate your abilities in each of the following areas?
- Flooring
- Carpentry
- Drywall
- Painting
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- HVAC
- Appliance repair
- Apartment turnovers
- Please describe an apartment, house, or other property renovation that you personally completed. What portions of the work did you perform yourself?
- If you were given a vacant apartment requiring new LVP flooring, drywall repairs, painting, replacement of several outlets and light fixtures, a leaking toilet, new baseboards, and several minor repairs, which portions would you complete yourself and which would require an outside contractor?
- What types of maintenance or construction work would you NOT feel comfortable completing yourself?
- Do you have experience communicating directly with tenants and handling rental-property issues? If so, please describe that experience.
- Do you have experience advertising vacancies, showing apartments, processing applications, or leasing apartments?
- Do you own a reliable vehicle capable of traveling regularly between properties in Minnesota and western Wisconsin?
- Are you comfortable traveling on a daily basis between properties located throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin?
- Are you willing to work as a 1099 independent contractor? What hourly compensation are you seeking?
- Are you comfortable working independently and providing a written daily report detailing what you accomplished, outstanding issues, vacancy/leasing activity, and your priorities for the following day?
Work Location: On the road
