Affordable Property Manager

Affordable Property Manager – In Person (Bellevue, WA)

$90,000 – $95,000 + Benefits

🌿 About Us

Arboreal Management is a mission-driven property management company focused on affordable and workforce housing in the Pacific Northwest. We manage over 5,000 homes with integrity, care, and a long-term commitment to community success. Our team combines strong operations, deep compliance expertise, and modern technology to deliver excellent outcomes for residents, partners, and regulators.

🎯 About the Role

We’re seeking an Affordable Property Manager to oversee a portfolio of residential buildings in Bellevue. This role is hands-on and operations-focused, with clear accountability for affordable housing performance—leasing, compliance, maintenance execution, and resident experience—across multiple properties. One community includes a brand-new construction development in the heart of downtown Bellevue.

✅ Key Responsibilities (Affordable Housing Focus)

• Portfolio Operations: Own day-to-day management across assigned affordable properties, ensuring smooth operations from leasing through move-ins, renewals, and resident services.

• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely compliance with applicable affordable housing program requirements, including file management, documentation, and regulator/vendor coordination, with working knowledge of Amazon Housing Equity Fund, affordable housing bonds, and LIHTC.

• Leasing & Occupancy: Drive leasing performance by overseeing marketing, screening workflows, lease-up execution, and occupancy targets while maintaining program integrity.

• Maintenance & Turnovers: Oversee maintenance operations, prioritize resident-impacting repairs, and ensure timely turn processes that support affordable housing readiness and quality standards.

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor leasing, admin, and maintenance staff to deliver consistent results across the portfolio.

• Financial & Performance Management: Support property performance through NOI awareness, budget/forecast collaboration, and careful review of reporting tied to affordable housing operations.

• Process Improvement: Identify operational gaps and implement improvements to strengthen compliance, resident experience, and overall efficiency.

🛠️ What You’ll Do

• Manage affordable housing leasing workflows (applications, verification steps, recertification/renewal coordination as applicable, and resident move-in readiness).

• Maintain compliance-ready documentation and partner with internal teams to support audits, reporting, and program requirements, including those related to Amazon Housing Equity Fund, affordable housing bonds, and LIHTC.

• Coordinate vendor and internal resources to ensure repairs, preventive maintenance, and quality standards are met consistently.

• Lead portfolio meetings and performance tracking to ensure goals are understood and executed by property teams.

• Oversee property readiness for lease-up and new development timelines, including stakeholder coordination for smooth openings.

✅ What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years in affordable property management, ideally managing multiple properties.

• Experience with lease-up or opening new affordable communities.

• Proven affordable housing compliance experience (program requirements, documentation practices, and audit/readiness mindset), including working with and needing experience with Amazon Housing Equity Fund, affordable housing bonds, and LIHTC.

• Strong leadership with the ability to build effective teams and maintain high standards.

• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment while staying organized and detail-oriented.

• Strong communication skills with residents, internal stakeholders, vendors, and compliance partners.

• Section 8 experience preferred.

🚀 What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

• Leadership opportunity in a growing, mission-driven organization.

• Support and resources to strengthen compliance and operational execution.

• Collaborative team culture focused on innovation, excellence, and integrity.