Transferring to a Run Down Property

I have five years experience working in Property Management with class C properties. I've always worked with a staff of two or more in leasing and two or more in maintenance. I will be transferring to a 90 unit community with one maintenance technician and I will be working alone. The company is a new start up management team with just a handful of properties. However this would be a promotion for me; leaving my current company as an APM for a 500 unit property and becoming a Property Manager there. I want to know what potential changes do I face that I may not have thought of. The property looks very worn down. A place I would never live. AC units falling out of each window and vandalized hallways. It's ugly; but SOMEONE has to manage it and people DO live there. I'm desperate to move on and wonder how bad can this really be? It's in the city in a low income neighborhood and of course delinquency is an issue. I don't mind being aggressive with delinquency but is it safe? Does anyone have any experience with this type of property?

I have always been used to running class A properties of a large size. I recently took a job running a class C property with 160 units. I am the only one in the office, I do have a part time leasing person who works Mon-Friday 12pm-5:30pm. Other than that it is just me. This property needed a lot of assistance when I got here. It is mostly college students and we don't have an officer on site. I have a two man maintenance team but sometimes I only operate with one. It was very overwhelming at first. I started July 21 and I'm just now getting everything into shape around here because I had to clean up the previous managers mess. I did deal with a lot of evictions at first and I had to call the police to come out on one of them on two different occasions. I did feel uneasy about it but once the residents started meeting me and speaking with me things loosened up big time! I only have four years under my belt. The last property I worked for was a class A property, I had two office staff and three maintenance and an officer. The most terrifying thing that I've ever dealt with was at that property. Someone was living in another persons apartment and we didn't know anything about it. Law enforcement had been to the office several times to see if I recognized the guy and I didn't. One day I did and I called the person on the lease for failure to pay rent. She told me to change the locks and that she would be moved out. The person staying there was supposedly receiving money from her every month to pay rent that we weren't receiving. When we were inspecting the unit the guy came in from the front door where as I had entered through the patio door. He grabbed a hammer and started breaking all of the class and then came after me with the hammer. Luckily the movers were there and they were able to block him from me. The police arrived and it turned out that he had several warrants. He ended up jumping into a river and almost drown trying to escape the police. Our policy is if you feel unsafe lock the door. I had more issues and run ins with the police at the A property then I have had here. The biggest factor is going to be how you come across to your new residents. I actually live onsite at my new property and my residents around me look after me.

Hi, are you still managing for the start-up management company? My name is Jon and I am the Regional Director of Sales at ClickNotices. We manage the entire rent and delinquency process, including late notices (generate and deliver), court filings, court appearances, coordinate evictions. We are not attorney's rather an administrative service with a cutting-edge technology. Where are you located?