Whether you like motivating your team, meeting performance goals, or analyzing financial information, careers in residential property management (RPM) offer many possibilities and the opportunity for lifelong learning and career development. Community managers have the fulfilling job of cultivating strong residential communities. Leadership, efficiency, and good people skills are the ingredients for success. If you have what it takes, you can move from small apartment communities to larger communities with a bigger budget and more staff — and eventually oversee a real estate portfolio.
As a community manager, you will:
Experience in bookkeeping, accounting, data administration, or customer service can be helpful.
The average community manager’s salary range is between $75k and $116k depending on size of the community.
(2025 Metro Denver Multifamily Compensation Report, Apartment Association of Metro Denver)
11,000 new jobs created every year.
Projected demand for 4.6 million new apartments by 2030.
Demand grows consistently – even during a recession.
Health insurance, 401k retirement plan, and life insurance.
Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
May include rent reduction and the ability to work from home.
Companies typically promote from within.
Companies offer continuing education opportunities.
Companies may offer tuition assistance.
““I enjoy cleaning up the messes that people can’t solve. It’s kind of like CSI but for Property Management““