Leasing Specialist

The posting, as Avanath wrote it

Overview

Brighthaven is proud to be recognized as one of the nation’s leading property management organizations dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality housing for the workforce.

Cultivating the American Dream is the purpose that binds the Brighthaven team. Every day presents an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, whether by helping residents call our communities home, delivering excellence in customer service, or championing our workforce. We are committed to creating an unforgettable experience as a great place to live, work, and be.

Formed through the combined experience of Avanath Communities and BRIDGE Housing, Brighthaven Communities operates a rapidly expanding, multi-state portfolio of affordable and workforce housing communities across the United States. Our platform continues to grow through strategic acquisitions and operational excellence, reflecting our long-term commitment to stability, scale, and service.

The Role

The Leasing Stabilization Specialist is a key leasing and sales role designed to support lease-up communities and properties experiencing occupancy, marketing, or leasing challenges. This position requires a highly motivated leasing professional with strong closing skills, creativity, disciplined follow-up, and the ability to generate qualified traffic through outreach and relationship building.

This role is not limited to traditional onsite leasing activity. The incumbent is expected to proactively identify opportunities to increase traffic, convert prospects into residents, strengthen resident retention, and support communities that need additional leasing momentum. After supporting a lease-up assignment, this position may be deployed to other properties within the portfolio that require leasing stabilization support.

The individual in this role must possess a high degree of professionalism and positive engagement for our residents and the workforce.

Qualifications

• Passion for providing exceptional customer service and creating positive resident and prospect experience.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of multifamily leasing, sales, hospitality, or customer relations experience preferred.
• Demonstrated success in lease-up, high-volume leasing, occupancy recovery, or challenging property environments strongly preferred.
• Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, HUD, affordable housing, or mixed-income housing experience highly desired.
• Strong sales, negotiation, objection-handling, and closing skills.
• Ability to develop outreach relationships and represent the community professionally in the local market.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can work independently with limited supervision.
• Flexible schedule that may include evenings, weekends, community events, and portfolio support assignments.
• Solid computer knowledge, including Microsoft Word, Excel, internet, email, and property management systems.
• Working knowledge of Yardi Voyager Property Management Software preferred.
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ted to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have, and Diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) are at the very core of Brighthaven’s operating and investment philosophy. We believe that bringing together people with diverse thoughts, backgrounds, talents, and experiences at all levels of our organization, including the executive team, enables us to proactively and creatively achieve our mission to enable opportunities for hard-working American families. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Our organization’s diversity initiatives include but are not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; transfers; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:

• Respectful communication and cooperation between all employees.
• Teamwork and employee participation, permitting the representation of all groups and employee perspectives.
• Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate employees’ varying needs.
• Employer and employee contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for diversity.

Compensation Range

Compensation Range
$26 — $33 USD