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edenfallingThings done today:
1. Arranged a tour and the person actually showed up! \o/ I think they're going to rent on Monday, once they get their finances together. (My other scheduled tour was a no show, boo hiss.)
2. Had an email exchange that I think has led/will lead to another rental. \o/
3. Inspected several apartments with Maintenance Guy. One was mostly in good shape, which was fortunate since the tenants were scheduled to arrive this afternoon. The other three were... basically okay, I guess? But each had at least one moderate problem that will need to be addressed. I noted them in the program we use to track turnover progress.
4. Staged, photographed, and unstaged the aforementioned apartment that tenants were going to move into this afternoon.
5. Unstaged a studio I photographed yesterday, because the tenant is scheduled to move in on Tuesday and I won't be back downtown until Wednesday.
6. Staged, photographed, and unstaged another apartment.
7. Continued uploading my shiny new staged apartment photos to our website. Also edited a bunch of my shiny new photographs to fix lighting and weird shot angle issues. (I do my photo edits in MS Photos, because our company won't pay for a proper graphics program.)
8. Fixed a floor plan for one apartment to account for the way it's been turned from a two-bedroom unit into a three-bedroom unit. (I do floor plan edits in a mix of MS Photos and MS Paint -- see above about our lack of proper graphics programs -- and because I can kludge Paint into doing straight lines and basic cut-and-paste easily enough. *sigh*)
9. Set up a one-container studio staging kit for Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man to use on Monday and Tuesday if they have time to do any apartment videos. I also arranged all the ancillary staging materials (for 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, and 3-bedroom units, which is all we have on the Commons) in a single place so things are easy to find and store.
10. I have decided that I will attempt making virtual apartment tour videos of my own since Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man don't have time to get down to the Commons very often, and even more rarely can manage to coordinate their availability with when I can stage an apartment. They will be kind of wobbly and I will not appear in them because I don't have a selfie stick or anything similar (...note to self, maybe buy a selfie stick with company funds?) but they will be a heck of a lot better than NOT having a video when we have to move entirely to virtual tours this fall.
11. On the one hand, I am glad I still get one day per week in Collegetown, because it's nice to work in an office where A) I'm not the only person there 90% of the time, and B) there are functional systems and protocols, but on the other hand, there are several apartments that I really want to stage and photograph/video but there's no way that's going to happen because they were still in turnover today and the new tenants will move in on Monday or Tuesday. And I know -- I just KNOW -- there is no way on earth that Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man will get to all of them.
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You know, I'm going to send Mr. Geniality an email about one specific apartment, though, because A) I know getting it staged and recorded will look really good to Company Owner and his sister and B) I don't know when we'll next get a chance to stage it, because it's the kind of apartment where tenants often renew for multiple years.
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This has been a very long week.
1. Arranged a tour and the person actually showed up! \o/ I think they're going to rent on Monday, once they get their finances together. (My other scheduled tour was a no show, boo hiss.)
2. Had an email exchange that I think has led/will lead to another rental. \o/
3. Inspected several apartments with Maintenance Guy. One was mostly in good shape, which was fortunate since the tenants were scheduled to arrive this afternoon. The other three were... basically okay, I guess? But each had at least one moderate problem that will need to be addressed. I noted them in the program we use to track turnover progress.
4. Staged, photographed, and unstaged the aforementioned apartment that tenants were going to move into this afternoon.
5. Unstaged a studio I photographed yesterday, because the tenant is scheduled to move in on Tuesday and I won't be back downtown until Wednesday.
6. Staged, photographed, and unstaged another apartment.
7. Continued uploading my shiny new staged apartment photos to our website. Also edited a bunch of my shiny new photographs to fix lighting and weird shot angle issues. (I do my photo edits in MS Photos, because our company won't pay for a proper graphics program.)
8. Fixed a floor plan for one apartment to account for the way it's been turned from a two-bedroom unit into a three-bedroom unit. (I do floor plan edits in a mix of MS Photos and MS Paint -- see above about our lack of proper graphics programs -- and because I can kludge Paint into doing straight lines and basic cut-and-paste easily enough. *sigh*)
9. Set up a one-container studio staging kit for Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man to use on Monday and Tuesday if they have time to do any apartment videos. I also arranged all the ancillary staging materials (for 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, and 3-bedroom units, which is all we have on the Commons) in a single place so things are easy to find and store.
10. I have decided that I will attempt making virtual apartment tour videos of my own since Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man don't have time to get down to the Commons very often, and even more rarely can manage to coordinate their availability with when I can stage an apartment. They will be kind of wobbly and I will not appear in them because I don't have a selfie stick or anything similar (...note to self, maybe buy a selfie stick with company funds?) but they will be a heck of a lot better than NOT having a video when we have to move entirely to virtual tours this fall.
11. On the one hand, I am glad I still get one day per week in Collegetown, because it's nice to work in an office where A) I'm not the only person there 90% of the time, and B) there are functional systems and protocols, but on the other hand, there are several apartments that I really want to stage and photograph/video but there's no way that's going to happen because they were still in turnover today and the new tenants will move in on Monday or Tuesday. And I know -- I just KNOW -- there is no way on earth that Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man will get to all of them.
...
You know, I'm going to send Mr. Geniality an email about one specific apartment, though, because A) I know getting it staged and recorded will look really good to Company Owner and his sister and B) I don't know when we'll next get a chance to stage it, because it's the kind of apartment where tenants often renew for multiple years.
...
This has been a very long week.
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Date: 2020-08-09 03:44 am (UTC)The staging, photographing and unstaging sounds like it would take up so much time and it's just part of your day. Bloody hell!
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Date: 2020-08-09 04:25 am (UTC)It's fairly minimal staging -- comforter, pillow (plus one or two throw pillows if I feel fancy), one or two fake plants, a couple pieces of dollar store "art" in super-cheap picture frames and assorted knick-knacks, a few bits of kitchen dressing (kettle, utensils in a cup, fake spice jars, dishtowel, refrigerator magnets), and a few bits of bathroom dressing (toothbrush in holder, soap dispenser, hand towel and washcloth), sometimes a desk lamp and a box of tissues. All items are selected to be as lightweight as possible so I can lug them in a single box/bin up and down multiple flights of stairs.
The idea isn't really to make the apartment look properly lived-in, just to make it feel a bit more welcoming than bare furniture, so people looking at the photos and videos feel more like it's a place they could make into a home (however temporary). And I have several years of practice at picking photo angles by now. *wry*