What r/PropertyManagement keeps coming back to
Complaints raised here by more than one person. One-off posts are not included.
52 recurring problems · 148 threads read · read since September 2026 · Reddit
Raised more than once here
Most people first.
- 30How to get an entry level job with no experience“Is there anything that she can do to her resume to increase her chances of getting interviews since she doesn't have experience in leasing”
- 25Why do IT jobs require impossible skill sets?“Every day I‘m drowning in a sea of urgent repair, legal and maintenance emails and no matter how productive I am at the end of the day I never feel accomplished because I might have done 30 things but 300 are outstanding.”
- 25Why do I feel so overwhelmed after starting a new job?“I am switching over to luxury leasing in two weeks. what are the major differences and pros and cons of changing?”
- 24Doing the job of a higher role without the promotion or pay“If you want advancement in the leasing world, this company will make you wait 3-4 years, you want to be the lead leasing agent?”
- 21Doing higher-level work without a pay raise“Current title is PM and wondering if I'm getting additional tasks from the office that I shouldn't be or if I'm being underpaid for it so they don't have to hire someone else.”
- 21How to clean up months of messy client expense records“property managers out there just accept broken financials as normal”
- 11How to deal with toxic leadership during company layoffs“I've been at my property for 5 years. As the assistant manager, I did very well. I won awards, I was asked to travel to other properties to help out, and I was loved by the residents.”
- 10How to handle property managers who ignore maintenance billing disputes“It does not help. If anything, it makes people automatically annoyed.”
- 9How to bypass customer service chat bots to talk to a human“When residents got angry with it, chat bot didn't know how to respond, and said "go to the leasing office for help". Causing a parade of angry residents to go to the leasing office.”
- 8Why do coworkers always bypass their supervisors to come straight to me?“I am having a hard time keeping everything organized and I am falling back and making mistakes.”
- 8Why do people double down when they make a mistake?“She said “No 4332 you don’t think I know my own address and where I live.””
- 7How to stop doing everything at once as property manager“Before that I was trying to do everything at once and nothing got finished properly”
- 6How to clean up an extreme biohazard house yourself“It’s unbelievably frustrating to chase a guy for $3k of rent for months, then you find that his past due rent…”
- 6How to track appliance warranties and maintenance between tenants“Specifically whether anyone's found a good way to handle the model-number thing, because mine is still basically a phone note and it shows.”
- 6How to handle tenants who demand compensation for every little thing“The phone ringing off the hook during the alarms, back to back calling, screaming at us on the phone.”
- 6How to get business clients without word of mouth“I am leaving a bigger pm company to go to a smaller one and I need to build my clientele.”
- 6How do I know when to report suspected child abuse?“They're getting evicted, but what would you do - would you report this to child protective services, or should I just try talking with the grandma instead? I've never dealt with this before....”
- 5AI is better at software architecture and patterns than I am“Transaction coordinators are done.”
- 5Tenant taking other people's packages in the building“Resident came to me and said her package is missing.”
- 5Why are parents applying for apartments on behalf of adult children?“I don’t know how many more times I can hear “i’m sourcing a rental for my college age child” or “i’m looking to find a rental property for my child and their spouse and their 3 kids” before I just start telling parents to have their kids call.”
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