Community Manager - BTR

LiveBH; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BH Management, LLC is seeking a Community Manager for Build to Rent Homes. This remote role involves visiting 1–3 communities weekly, coordinating maintenance, and achieving occupancy and revenue targets. Strong leadership and budgeting skills are essential.

Responsibilities include ensuring safety compliance, marketing, and communicating with residents. Travel by car/plane for training is expected; state leasing license may be required.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of property management experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Prior leadership experience required.
• State leasing license or ability to obtain within required timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Regularly inspects each Community to ensure safety, regulatory compliance, and operational standards.
• Coordinates maintenance and move-in timing with the maintenance team.
• Develops market and leasing strategies to reach occupancy and revenue goals.
• Reviews budgets and financials; monitors rents, delinquencies and AR per policy.
• Hires, trains, and mentors staff; manages on-call duties and staff performance.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Travel flexibility

Education

State leasing license (or ability to obtain)

Tools

MS Office (Word/Excel)

Job description

Who We Are

BH Management, LLC is a people-first multifamily owner and operator that grew from a small startup into one of the nation's largest commercial real estate companies. Founded in 1993, BH is celebrated for its simple commitment to doing business the right way and investing in its team. Today, BH manages over 100,000 units, employs over 2,800 people, owns its processes in-house, and is praised by Fortune Magazine as the “Best Workplace for Women,” “Best Workplace for Millennials,” and “Best Workplaces for Diversity.” Powered by innovation and a can-do attitude, BH improves daily, striving to construct a smarter way to live, invest, manage, and grow. BH is passionate about setting the standard in the multifamily industry. We are a welcoming band of go- getters who think big, sweat the details, and take our work (but never ourselves) too seriously. We set our sights high, own our mistakes, and turn lemons into lemonade. We are incredibly proud of where we’ve come and are ready to tackle what’s next. Come join us!

Position Summary

The Community Manager of Build to Rent Homes is responsible for the successful day- to- day financial, administrative, leasing, marketing and maintenance operations of Community/Communities, while ensuring company standards are achieved and excellent customer service is delivered. The Community Manager will be working remotely, with multiple site visits weekly and running between one and three communities simultaneously. Exhibits strong commitment to the service needs of the internal and external customer.

Essential Job Functions

• Regularly inspects the Community/Communities to ensure company standards are being met; takes appropriate action to establish Community/Communities compliance with safety, industry, and state/city/federal regulations to ensure safe and stable operation of the Community/Communities at all times; identifies areas of improvement and offers suggestions to improve the efficiency, productivity and profitability of the Community/Communities.
• Work daily with the maintenance team to confirm move-in dates are aligned within the time frame for potential renters.
• Gathers, analyzes, and interprets current market and economic trends that may impact the Community/Communities and implements marketing and leasing strategies to achieve the Community/Communities occupancy and revenue goals.
• Monitors and analyzes traffic logs, budget guidelines, renewal information, marketing data, etc. to be able to give up to date and proper information as requested.
• Develops resident retention by communicating and responding to residents in a timely manner and taking necessary action to address service issues; monitors resident satisfaction in person or through follow-up calls to ensure a positive living experience.
• Manages and coordinates requests for repairs and maintenance and ensures appropriate response to resident requests for service orders; verifies, inspects and confirms status of all vacant units; oversee and ensure that established preventative maintenance programs are implemented, followed and documented per BH program guidelines.
• Partners with Regional Manager to create operating income/expense budgets that reflect the owners’ objectives for Community/Communities operations, cash flow requirements and leasing strategy; ensures all budgeting guidelines and financial systems relating to purchase order systems as well as expense monitoring and approval are followed as per BH policy; ensures all payables and Purchase Orders for the asset are processed timely and accurately; monitors and reviews all vendor statements balances including balance forwards.
• Reviews monthly income and expense reports and reports on any variance from budget; coordinates collection and documentation of all revenues following lease obligations of tenants and the owners’ policy on accounts receivable; collects delinquent accounts promptly in adherence to BH policy.
• Prepares related weekly/monthly Community/Communities operational and financial reports to include, but not limited to: petty cash, variance, leasing, renewal, financial.
• Hires, trains, supervises, develops, and mentors Community/Communities staff in accordance with company policies, procedures, and directives; conducts performance evaluations, and corrective action as needed.
• Manages on-call responsibilities as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications/Skills

• 3-5 years of prior property management experience.
• Ability to travel via car or plane for company required training/business.
• Advanced MS Office Word/Excel and computer technology skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Prior leadership experience required.
• High School or GED (General Education Diploma) Required, some college preferred.
• Where required by law, must have state leasing license or ability to obtain the required license(s) within the timeframe required by law.

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday (work schedule may vary depending on business needs). Traveling to and working onsite up to a minimum of 75% of the time.

Physical Requirements/Environment

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Full range of motion with upper and lower body. Continual movement including, but not limited to: standing, walking, bending, stooping, crawling, and climbing stairs. Operation of a motor vehicle onsite, if applicable. Exposure to all weather conditions. Lifting at least 20 pounds.

BH is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We foster the diverse voices of our community by advocating for inclusivity, celebrating our differences, and continually evolving our practice to make BH a better place to work and live.

Our posted compensation reflects the cost of talent across multiple US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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