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Assistant Property Manager

Assistant Property Manager

Coordinate daily operations, resident needs, and team follow-through across your portfolio.

People who know the work

Illustrative remote property operations professional

Responsibilities

Monitor daily activity

Review assigned queues for work orders, leasing, resident requests, and administrative deadlines. Consolidate the items requiring attention.

Coordinate across teams

Follow up with leasing, maintenance, and accounting contacts, document handoffs, and keep the portfolio manager informed.

Prepare operating updates

Maintain status reports and meeting agendas, identify recurring delays, and track approved corrective actions.

What we look for

Experience verification, English assessment, skills testing, references, and background checks. We also look for the role-specific judgment below.

What Rithm Desk looks for

Portfolio coordination experience

Can explain how leasing, maintenance, accounting, and resident service affect one another.

Prioritization

Separates urgent exceptions from routine updates and makes unresolved ownership visible.

Ownership without overreach

Follows through consistently while preserving the manager’s decision authority.

How ability can be demonstrated

Portfolio review

Review a fictional daily operations report and identify the highest-priority follow-ups.

Cross-team handoff

Prepare a coordinated update for a unit that is not ready for a scheduled move-in.

Manager briefing

Summarize open issues into decisions needed, owners, and next steps.

Illustrative exercises, tailored to the role and your workflow.

Systems

Relevant experience may include AppFolio, Buildium, portfolio reports, shared calendars, and team task systems.

How they work with your team

This is remote operational support. Your designated property manager retains supervisory, approval, on-site, and any licensed responsibilities.

Key metrics

The numbers this role is accountable for in your workflow.

Task completion rate

Assigned portfolio tasks done on time.

Resident response time

Time to first reply on resident issues.

Renewal tracking accuracy

Expirations and renewals tracked with no misses.

Open-task aging

Tasks open past their target window.

Documentation accuracy

Property records complete and current.

PM workload reduction

Routine work moved off the property manager’s plate.

Training

Lessons coming soon

Every placement completes Core Foundations plus this role track. Your own SOPs are layered on at onboarding.

  1. How a portfolio runs day to day

  2. Prioritizing a busy queue

  3. Resident communication and notices

  4. Leasing, move-ins, move-outs and renewals

  5. Maintenance oversight

  6. Owner communication and approvals

  7. Insurance, inspections and compliance tracking

  8. Escalation: what is yours and what is not

  9. Operating reports and manager briefings

Ready to hire?

Let’s define the responsibilities, experience, and schedule your team needs.