The Panel:
Chris Beno
ConAm Colorado
FRESH TAKE ON
MAINTENANCE:
Darrin Sullivan
Greystar Real Estate
Stories, Insights & Challenges
Long-time industry experts sit down with VP of Communications
Christopher Dean to discuss their maintenance experience.
Christopher Dean (AAMD): How did you first
hear about maintenance as a career? What was your
first job? Chris did. I was living in a place and I had some
extra time and they offered me a position as like a
paint prep guy.
Chris Beno: I was paying my rent and the
manager offered me a job. AAMD: So you just got paid to prep?
Darrin Sullivan: I was in college and needed a job
and had an uncle in the business, a family member.
Jeff Harmon: I started out in the hotel industry
and the manager of the Marriott at the time got
into the industry and then I tagged along with her.
Lannon Quintana: I was a school dork, straight
A’s my whole life, had a wrestling scholarship,
and then right after my senior year, I tore up my
shoulder and all the plans I had made were gone.
So I got a job in the Aurora Mall selling shoes
and became friends with one of my customers. He
was in maintenance and said they had a beginning
position open. I was all for it, not because I
wanted to do the work, but because I could get
my own apartment!
Troy Boyd: I kind of started off the same way
www.aamdhq.org
Troy: Yes, for like doorknobs and outlets and
covers and stuff like that and then when the
paint was done I put it all back on. That is how I
got started as a part-time thing.
Jeff Harmon
Legacy Partners
Troy Boyd
Inland Residential
Chris: I started as a grounds/maintenance
supervisor on a small community so I basically
did everything including walking units for tours
on leases.
AAMD: Did you have a job at the time that you
basically quit to continue this?
Dean Trujilo
Colorado Golf & Turf
Lannon: I was selling shoes, however I worked
both jobs until The Athletes Foot went out of
business.
Chris: Yes, it was in the wintertime and I was
in the construction industry so commercial
landscapes, snow started flying and I had no
Lannon Quintana
Cardinal Group Management
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