Community Manager

Garrett Harvest Junction is a newly developed apartment community in a thriving Longmont, CO market, thoughtfully designed to blend modern comfort with a relaxed, elevated lifestyle. Featuring stylish finishes, spacious floor plans, and resort‑inspired amenities, the community offers residents a place that feels both welcoming and refined. As Garrett Harvest Junction enters its lease‑up phase, we are seeking a driven, personable Community Manager to lead the day‑to‑day operations and bring the vision of the property to life.

This role is ideal for someone with proven lease‑up experience, strong leadership skills, and a passion for delivering an exceptional resident experience. If you thrive in a fast‑paced environment and take pride in building community from the ground up, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

• The Community Manager is responsible for day to day operations of an initial lease‑up community and stabilizing the asset to ensure it is fully occupied at appropriate rent levels in accordance with the budget.
• Leads, develops and coordinates onsite team members to reach their fullest potential and exceed the goals of the community by maximizing performance.
• Collaborates with upper management on the objectives for the community and how best to achieve budgeted goals, such as physical and economic occupancy, marketing, expense control and lease up stabilization.
• Expert knowledge of the community’s market, including but not limited to, direct local and product competition, rent levels, amenity preferences, the general housing market, the job market and neighborhood demographics.
• Ensure that each resident and employee experience is in line with the Garrett Residential vision and expectation.
• Proven self‑starter with internal drive to work on initiatives and goals with little prompting.

• Lead by example on how to create an exemplary customer experience for all future and existing residents at the community. This includes but is not limited to responding to internet leads, answering phone calls and showing prospective residents their future apartment home.
• Initiate, prioritize and assign individual and onsite team daily activities, including leasing, customer experience relations, marketing, social media posting, vendor relations, selection and recruitment, accounts receivable, accounts payable and make‑ready apartment homes.
• Complete market study on a regular basis and consistently communicate updates and new communities in the pipeline. Manager is expected to be able to make strategic marketing and leasing decisions on the community’s behalf for continued success, in addition to overseeing the leasing team.
• Follow‑up with ALL prospects via phone call, email and hand written thank you card.
• Complete move‑in / move‑out inspections with residents.
• Manage future exposure and plan for renewals 120 days out to ensure occupancy stability.
• Ensure the community is open and ready for business at scheduled time daily and that any and all after hours emergencies are appropriately handled.
• Identifies, recruits, interviews and hires appropriate team members for the community.
• Hold regular team meetings to communicate goals, progress, expectations, on‑site safety meetings and implementation of new policies and procedures.
• Maintains relationship with vendors, residents, team members and associates on a professional level at all times.
• Consistently and effectively communicates with Director of Property Management and relevant teams regarding community performance.
• Ability to read, analyze, interpret and write required reports, correspondence and policy/procedure manuals.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as occupancy percentages, gross potential rent and commissions.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Be in constant and never ending improvement and development of yourself.
• Minimum of 5 years property management experience.
• Must be consistently detail oriented with st r ong organizational skills.
• Bilingual strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Ability to listen and understand intents and goals.
• Ability to think creatively and innovatively.
• Profession…