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opening days are a silly concept
Sep. 8th, 2022 09:19 pmToday was opening day for Collegetown rentals! Some types of apartment rented well, others much less so. Mom Boss and Aunt Boss are going to try to get Company Owner to recalibrate some prices, so we'll see how that goes over the next few weeks.
I spent a lot of time explaining the rental process to various walk-ins, and also helping groups narrow down their apartment choices until they settled on one specific unit. I also spent a lot of time updating and creating online ads. In most cases the text isn't the hard part -- we have templates, and with Craigslist I can usually even just dig out deleted/inactive ads from the previous year and tweak them as needed. The hard part is the images, particularly on sites where the ads remain year-round and just get hidden for a while -- with those, I had to go delete every single outdated picture (and most rental aggregator sites don't allow batch image deletion! why the fuck would you not allow batch image deletion?! especially when you make me confirm each deletion TWICE!), and then upload, arrange, and label replacement images. That can take for-fucking-ever.
I also did some clerical work, showed Mr. Artistic (formerly known as New Hire 7) how to do some new-lease tasks in Rent Manager, showed Mr. Artistic how the Craigslist ad schedule spreadsheet works (...after I set up the Craigslist ad schedule spreadsheet for this year; sometimes I regret inventing that spreadsheet three or four years ago, but annoying as it is, it's still better than our previous ad tracking methods), signed out packages, answered phone calls, cleaned up powdered sugar that had gotten ground into the carpet (we have complimentary donuts on opening day; it's a thing), and assorted other nonsense.
I feel extremely productive, and also extremely glad that tomorrow I will be back in the downtown office, where I believe our most pressing current issue is the chipmunk that got into somebody's apartment. *hands* What a chipmunk is doing in the middle of the Ithaca Commons is beyond me, but today was the second time we've had to call a wildlife management company in response to the same critter. (What really baffles me is that the tenants of that apartment have an emotional support cat. You'd think that would scare a chipmunk off, but apparently not!)
I spent a lot of time explaining the rental process to various walk-ins, and also helping groups narrow down their apartment choices until they settled on one specific unit. I also spent a lot of time updating and creating online ads. In most cases the text isn't the hard part -- we have templates, and with Craigslist I can usually even just dig out deleted/inactive ads from the previous year and tweak them as needed. The hard part is the images, particularly on sites where the ads remain year-round and just get hidden for a while -- with those, I had to go delete every single outdated picture (and most rental aggregator sites don't allow batch image deletion! why the fuck would you not allow batch image deletion?! especially when you make me confirm each deletion TWICE!), and then upload, arrange, and label replacement images. That can take for-fucking-ever.
I also did some clerical work, showed Mr. Artistic (formerly known as New Hire 7) how to do some new-lease tasks in Rent Manager, showed Mr. Artistic how the Craigslist ad schedule spreadsheet works (...after I set up the Craigslist ad schedule spreadsheet for this year; sometimes I regret inventing that spreadsheet three or four years ago, but annoying as it is, it's still better than our previous ad tracking methods), signed out packages, answered phone calls, cleaned up powdered sugar that had gotten ground into the carpet (we have complimentary donuts on opening day; it's a thing), and assorted other nonsense.
I feel extremely productive, and also extremely glad that tomorrow I will be back in the downtown office, where I believe our most pressing current issue is the chipmunk that got into somebody's apartment. *hands* What a chipmunk is doing in the middle of the Ithaca Commons is beyond me, but today was the second time we've had to call a wildlife management company in response to the same critter. (What really baffles me is that the tenants of that apartment have an emotional support cat. You'd think that would scare a chipmunk off, but apparently not!)
