Great Lakes Management Reviews

Horrible upper managment, lack of professionalism across the board, violated fair housing laws on a daily basis, unfair treatment and harrassment of residents and employees, zero recourse for breach in employee's rights and resident's privacy rights, lack of effective communication skills from all parties (property owners, managers, COO, company president), incorrectly pay their staff on many occasions (seemingly on purpose; i.e. shady business practices), workplace discrimination.

Pay (starts at minimum wage). They absolutely don’t pay enough to leasing agents. It’s not even enough to afford the apartments without the rent credit. I’ve had multiple coworkers quit due to pay and management absolutely shutting down the idea of paying them more to match other properties. Also, the person in another review that mentioned how the rent credit is held above your head is 100% correct. They factor that into pay and if you ask for more money, they’ll bring it up and use that as an excuse not to increase your pay. Commissions are not enough for the amount of work being done. There is such a ridiculous process for applications at my property and it can take forever to close them out and get people approved. We’re expected to do a lot of hand holding with applicants and it’s absolutely not worth the effort. Time off. You have to wait a long time before you can start accruing vacation time and PTO. They also don’t like you taking off any days. Upper management doesn’t care about their employees. They see you as disposable and rather than paying good employees more to show their appreciation for their hard work, they’d rather let them quit and hire brand new people with no experience just so they can pay them as little as possible. Once those people get trained in, they usually leave for the same reasons past employees have left. It’s a vicious cycle. The turnover rate is crazy.