Apartment Industry Career Center

Rental housing serves as the foundation of everyday life for 35% of American households.

Rental housing offers an affordable, maintenance-free lifestyle for college students, people that are saving for a house, military families, people moving to a new location, empty nesters, seniors - virtually anyone! Rental housing offers carefree living, well maintained by a dedicated team of skilled maintenance professionals.

Community managers and leasing consultants are responsible for helping prospective residents find the right home that fits their budget and lifestyle, providing good customer service, managing risk and marketing the community to maintain a financially sound real estate asset.

To meet the challenges of a growing rental housing industry, new, skilled workers are needed to replace retiring workers and to staff newly built apartment communities.

Through strategic partnerships with career academies, technical high schools, technical and community colleges, universities, workforce investment boards and veterans organizations, the National Apartment Association Education Institute and PMA of West Michigan strive to ensure that people receive the necessary training to find new, portable and rewarding careers in apartment management so that residents of West Michigan can enjoy living in their apartment home and community.

PMA of West Michigan urges all citizens to become familiar with the many benefits of rental housing and the portable, rewarding careers available in apartment leasing, apartment maintenance and apartment community management.