There is a common misconception about apartment managing that it is some miraculous job where, if you are lucky enough to even get your foot in the door and get hired as a manager, your rent is "free." We hear it all the time. Heck, you probably read the title and said, "apartment managers get free rent!" I mean, that's fine if you did that because we said it too and that's how they get ya! Let's examine the situation here (to make it easier, answer yes to the next three questions):
- Do you live in an apartment complex?
- Do you work full or part time?
- Do you pay rent to the apartment complex with your salary from your job?
Then your rent is "free" too! If only we got to sit at home and buy things on the internet all day while the apartment fairies paid our rent. No, it is a second job much like the one you had at McDonalds during college, except worse. A much more exact job description of an apartment manager would be that we are babysitters. Of adults. Trust me, we don't withdraw in single dollar bills the rent money we "don't have to pay" every month and roll around in it, so get that image out of your mind. Okay, put it back in your mind for just a moment because I liked the idea of it too. Wait for a moment... Now take it back out. Very good.
The fact of the matter is we are poorer than you. We live in a smaller apartment and give up the finer things in life because we thought we would be getting "free" rent so we could buy expensive things like those fancy big olives they have sitting out at the grocery stores. Now we just work extra hard and long hours with idiots, a.k.a residents, to support our family of three children, half of which are girls, and they don't even get any olives at all! But we promise to take our experiences and tell them to you in a humorous way, rather than a whiny, "poor Dexter and Paige" sort of way.
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