September Round Up
Spotlight
Please join us in congratulating Kasey Munsch and Mike Kivitz on an incredible milestone...15 years with Preiss!
Kasey Munsch – 15 Years
Kasey joined Preiss through the acquisition of The Ivy, rebranded as University Village at Slippery Rock in Slippery Rock, PA. Starting as a Marketing Manager, it was immediately clear she was a step above anyone we had ever had in that role. Her creative talent and mastery of design tools (back in the Microsoft Publisher days!) quickly set her apart.
Today, as VP of Marketing, Kasey is the creative force behind our annual Leadership Conference, the voice behind our Travtus AI initiative, the director of all PR and other public communication, and so much more. Known for her love of animals, her 4 AM productivity streaks, her uncanny ability to dig up background information, and her selfless, thoughtful spirit, Kasey embodies the best qualities of a colleague and a friend. She would go to the ends of the earth for a teammate or this organization. We simply couldn’t do this without you, Kasey!
Mike Kivitz – 15 Years
Mike also began his journey with Preiss at UV Slippery Rock, where I first met him shoveling snow outside the leasing office as a part-time Leasing Agent. That moment perfectly reflects Mike’s career—if there’s a job to be done, Mike will do it.
From those early days, Mike became one of our first true “road warriors,” filling gaps across Charlotte, Statesboro, Auburn, Columbia (MO), and beyond. He steadily worked his way through the on-site management ranks, eventually becoming Regional Manager. Once in Raleigh, Mike quickly earned his reputation as the knowledge king of student housing (he’s even known to leave a day early for vacation just to tour markets along the way!).
Today, as Director of Strategic Partnerships, Mike leverages his expertise and unmatched networking ability to grow our portfolio and connect new clients to all things Preiss. He’s a perfect fit for this role, and we’re thrilled to watch him continue to thrive. A genuine friend, a dependable teammate, and a true embodiment of our culture, we’re lucky to have you, Mike!
Kasey and Mike—thank you for 15 years of service, leadership, and heart. Here’s to celebrating the past 15 and looking forward to the next 15!
Highlight
Turn 2025 Recap!! We could not have made this possible without our AMAZING teams across the country. Thank you to everyone who put in countless hours to make these past few weeks successful. From renovations and repairs, to sparkling units and final touches, the hard work you put in makes all the difference for our residents year after year. We are extremely grateful for every team member who put in their time and energy in order to make move-in season a success!
Resource
In today’s modern, competitive environment, employees need to replenish their knowledge and acquire new skills to perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively. These new skills will benefit both the employee and the company as a whole. The Preiss Company is committed to ensuring that all employees feel confident about improving their efficiency and productivity, as well as finding new ways towards success and growth in their personal development. The Preiss Company is proud to offer a Learning Stipend to achieve our common goals.
What do we mean by Learning?
A learning organization is a thriving one. In general, we approve and encourage the following employee learning opportunities:
Specific job or industry related course or certification program (i.e. pursuit of real estate license, NAA designation such as CAM or NALP, etc.)
Technical course that is complementary to everyday job skills (i.e. advanced Microsoft Excel certification, sales/customer service seminars, etc.)
Job rotation, job shadowing, and other types of on-the-job training (without disrupting daily operations).
Note: Courses in degree-seeking programs are not covered under this Learning Stipend benefit, such as courses offered in the pursuit of an Associate’s, Bachelor’s, or Master’s degrees.
Who is eligible and what is the maximum benefit under this program?
This policy applies to all full-time employees, after 6 months of employment. Part-time employees might attend trainings at their manager’s discretion.
Eligible employees will take approved course(s) on their own time, or use available PTO hours or floating holiday for the time out of the office. 3.
There is a maximum Learning Stipend payment of $1,500 over the employee’s employment with DP Preiss Company.
What is the procedure for applying for the Learning Stipend?
Employees identifies the need for training.
Employee completes a Learning Stipend Request Form and submits to direct manager.
Manager and one-over manager, approves or rejects the proposal. If rejected, manager should provide employee with reason in writing.
Employee submits form to HR for final approval.
HR notifies employee of final approval or denial.
Employee registers and pays for class/course.
a. In special, pre-approved cases when the company pays the stipend prior to course completion: if employee decides to drop or cancel the class/course, they’ll have to reimburse The Preiss Company for the cost of the class/course and any cancellation/other fees.
In cases where training ends with examination, employees are obliged to submit the results. If they don’t pass the exam, they can re-take the course at their own expense.
Once employee completes class/course, approved form and proof of course completion is submitted to HR for tracking purposes. HR will send to AP for payment.
Employee agrees to stay with The Preiss Company for one year after completion of course covered under the Learning Stipend policy.
If you have any questions, please email hr@tpco.com
Century Club
Please welcome these properties into the 2025 TPCO Century Club! Congratulations to these properties for reaching 100% pre-leased!
Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
Each month, Employee Resource Groups formed by the TPCO DEI Council meet via Zoom. We encourage all employees to join as many ERG meetings as they wish for a great opportunity to connect with fellow employees who share common interests. Check out the schedule for the upcoming meetings and click the link to add to your personal calendar!
9/17 | 12PM EST
9/26 | 2PM EST
Employee Updates
We’re always excited to see our employees take a next step in their careers. Help us congratulate and celebrate some recent employee changes!
Billy Antunez was promoted to Maintenance Technician at Valentine Commons
Javier Lopez was promoted to Maintenance Technician at The Edition on Rosemary
Mya Missouri was promoted to full-time Leasing Consultant at Signature Hartwell Village
Ian Strickler was promoted to full-time Leasing Consultant at Villas & Venue on Guadalupe
Jacob Brown was promoted to full-time Leasing Consultant at Gamecock Village
Gricelda Cerda was promoted to full-time Leasing Consultant at 21 Pearl
April Viana was promoted to full-time Leasing Consultant at Mustang Village
Welcome to everyone who joined the Preiss Company team as a new employee last month!
Reece Black | Maintenance Technician | UV Clemson
Stuart Grainger | Groundskeeper | Signature 1505
Elle Nielsen | Area Leasing Consultant | The Bridges & Knoll at Dinkytown
Chloe Weber | Leasing Consultant | Midtown Auburn
Allison Burlew | Accounting Intern | Corporate Office
Corey Diamond | Maintenance Technician | The Retreat at Columbia
Matthew LoPresti | Leasing Consultant | The Retreat at Columbia
Erin Aymerich | Maintenance Technician | Signature Music Row
Andrew Vu | Leasing Consultant | Quantum on West Call
Bo Wright | Maintenance Technician | Crossing Place
Monica Jin | Business Intern | Corporate Office
Cade Schwartz | Leasing Consultant | Park on Morton
Skye Garber | Leasing Consultant | Park on Morton
Mari Hodge | Maintenance Technician | The Row at the Stadium
Zeke Fuentes | Maintenance Technician | Madera Apartments
Taylor Filkins | Leasing Consultant | The Collective at Clemson
Eva Maravilla | Leasing Consultant | Park on Morton
Jimmy Langford | Maintenance Technician | Quantum on West Call
Andrew Ferrand | Leasing Consultant | Eastern on 10th
Jose Pulido Miranda | Leasing Consultant | 24 Longview
Maya Langley | Leasing Consultant | Crossing Place
Domonique Tytus | Porter | 2909 Oliver
Danella Zuber | Leasing Consultant | Orion on Orpington
Savannah Rasar | Leasing Consultant | Nest 4955
Gage Oliver | Leasing Consultant | Mustang Village
Joydan Styles | Leasing Consultant | The Province
Shout Outs
“I would like to give a Shout out to:
Liliana/Carl/Luka- thank you for all your help with all Turn invoices. You guys are the best!
Lily/Georgie/Ross/Amanda/Natalie/Liliana/Luka/Carl/Lauren/Joseph/Ryan (and anyone else I missed that assisted)- Thank you ALL for helping with Owner statements and getting us ahead of schedule. You are AWESOME!!!
Jada- for doing an Amazing Job with Turn Invoices and getting Owner Statements completed ahead of time!”
“Huge shoutout to our amazing team for absolutely rocking it through the turnover period! Your constant willingness to work hard and go above and beyond truly showed in how smooth our move-ins went this year.
A special shoutout to our leasing specialist, Maddie, for jumping in and helping enormously with everything from leasing to turn support during her site visit—she was an absolute pleasure to have on our team, and her efforts made such a difference!
I’m so proud of this team and beyond grateful for the dedication and positive attitudes you all brought to one of the toughest and busiest times of the year. You all crushed it, and it shows! 💪👏”
“Huge thanks to the Renewal Campaign team creating such a fun campaign 🏈📣. Bringing this vision to life was not an easy task, so I appreciate every detail everyone worked on to make it a success. I’m so excited for the teams to have these resources. Onto the next one! ”
“Shout out to Candice Stricklin and Emily Thomas for their help with the VIP list process!! This experience has been quite the learning curve for me, but the two of you have been such a tremendous help in getting everything set up and continuously listening to me rant about ideas. I appreciate the both of you so SO much.
Also shout out to everyone that helped get this year’s renewal campaign up and running (Candice Stricklin, Emily Endress, Tati Jorge, Emily Thomas, Hannah-Scott Chamblee, Tiffany Woodard, and Aubrie Hill)! You all put in so much time and effort to get this off the ground — on top of the rebrand, turn, and other things thrown our way — and I truly can’t thank you all enough. I can’t wait to see how well this campaign “plays” out this year! ”
“Shoutout leasing agents at The Collective at Columbia! Olivia Wilson, Ayush Patel, Landon Stotler, and Kebria Washington.
Those four put in WORK during turn, stepped up in a huge way. Amazing work you four!”
“Lee Stuart, Lead maintenance Tech at View Legacy Oaks. The 6 batteries on Lee’s golf cart started to fail and needed to be replaced. Through Lee’s contacts in the Golfing world, he found that a number of golf courses have started switching over to a single Lithium Battery for carts as opposed to 6 acid batteries. Lee spent a good amount of time researching different Lithium batteries to find the best fit for our needs. His research paid off as we purchased a single Lithium battery for HALF the cost of 6 regular golf cart batteries!!! We were able to remove the old batteries and install the Lithium battery ourselves, saving the property even more money. Lee noticed an immediate difference in pick up and performance in his cart with the new battery. Thanks to Lee’s dedication to heading up this project, he saved the property hundreds of dollars on this one battery change out. This savings will multiply moving forward as the property has 3 other golf carts that will need new batteries in the future. Great job Lee on being forward thinking and through in your research on this project!!!”
“Shout Out to all my Teams for Surviving the Toughest 30 Days of the Year. Cheers to the next 335! Let’s make it the best year yet! 🙌
Shout Out to Matt Guzman for providing the best Turn support The Big Nest 4955 Team could ever ask for! Thank you for introducing us to EDM Country 🤠 and also for sparkling, providing IT support, utility management, making brass keys, 🙈 and fulfilling work orders. You’re the real GOAT.🐐
Shout Out to Madeleine Martin for embracing LBK life off Broadway. When Life gives you Lemons, make a Chilton! 👆
Shout Out to Craig George for being the most clutch co-worker for over a decade, my neighbor on the road, year after year; a terrible dinner date, but a good friend, most days. Thank you for all your support. Although you did make me late for damage walks, I forgive you, but Kara made note on our time cards. :)”
“Shout out to ALL of my managers who ran their turns and for making it through such a hectic season!! You all dealt with your own challenges individually but handled them all with grace and had successful move in days!!
Allie - The Retreat is a beast of a turn with a million moving parts and you knocked it out of the park! It is such a different dynamic there but nothing got missed and you stayed so focused the whole time! Along with being away from your family for 26 days in a row! Thank you so much for your time there!
Marysa - Thank you for stepping up and running turn at Gamecock! You did such a great job handling everything even when you had front door locks dying left and right!!
Marshall - I always love coming to Campus Edge during turn because you are so calm, cool and collected! Nothing shakes you, even when there are many things that can! Thanks for your hard work!
Mandy - You never cease to amaze me...running 2 turns, 1,200+ beds and you never seem to let it get you down! You have built such a great team and that is a true testament to your leadership abilities! The Row and Greene Crossing are lucky to have you!
Jonathan - This was my first time visiting 2909 during turn and I LOVED walking units with you! You always kept me laughing which is much needed during turn! Your daily memes keep me going!
Amanda - Your first turn as the PM at Mustang Village and you killed...all while continuing to sign leases everyday and make a memorable move in day for your residents and keeping a smile on your face the whole time! You are a shining star and I am so proud of you!!
Erin - Last but not least, my newest PM who was thrown into turn a week before it started! I could not be more proud of you and how you handled everything! I am so excited that you are at Park on Morton and can’t wait for a great year!”
“SHOUT OUT to our Rockstar Staff at The Nest! Through the heat, chaos, long hours, blood, sweat, and tears (literally), we crushed this turn, and we couldn’t have done it without every single one of you!
Kaleigh Bordeaux – My partner-in-turn-crime, we did it Sis! Couldn’t have made it through without your everyday hustle & therapy sessions. There is a light at the end of the tunnel! Do I hear, Area PM of the YEAR?!
Sarah Blake & Anna Orvin – Queens of the key chaos! Thank you for getting all the jacked-up keys organized and ready for move-in. And for everything else in between, there are so many things.
Savannah Rasar – Thank you for helping us trash out nasty mattresses’, for sparkling units and rollin’ them t-shirts!!
Daniel Monroe, Clayton “Cletus” Shue & Sam Bradley – Maintenance MVPs... Y’all dominated the game in every way! It was more than a lot of work and it doesn’t go unnoticed just how hard y’all worked. Super proud of you guys!
Sara Clark, Chloe George & Sally De Sousa – We needed help, and y’all SHOWED UP! We’re so grateful for your time and all the extra hands.
Lauren Dalia, Matt Guzman & Rayvon Davis – Your multiple trips to Wilmington were everything! The help with getting us organized and the entire property sparkling for move-in is one of many reasons why we had such a successful turn! Honestly, our emotional support humans!
I love y’all and this is my apology if I was rude, upset or demanding at times, LOL! But really, thank you from the bottom of my heart! 🫶”
“Huge shoutout to all of our incredible onsite teams and everyone behind the scenes who helped make this TURN a success! 🙌
Your dedication, long hours, and hard work did not go unnoticed. From start to finish, you showed up with commitment, resilience, and teamwork!
We couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you. Thank you for going above and beyond.
Cheers everyone!”
“Shout out to Dewana for all the support and great leadership provided to the Teams in Athens this year. You are truly the best and the TEAMS loved having you while I focused on the other properties. Cannot thank you enough for taking the time away from home to support all of them! ”
“BIG SHOUT OUT TO RIVER CLUB MAINTENANCE AND TEAM!! WE HAD THE BEST MOVE IN DAYS WITH ONLY A FEW ISSUES! ALSO WE ONLY HAD ABOUT 150 WORK ORDERS FOLLOWING THE MOVE IN DAYS! THIS IS THE BEST NUMBER IN YEARS!!!!!!!!! :)
Very Proud of the TEAM and thankful for them everyday! ”
Birthdays
Wishing a very Happy Birthday to all of the September birthdays!
1st - Jessica Ginestra, Tyson Miller, James Raines, Adam Tomlinson
4th - Morgan Madaffari
5th - Arianna Baio
6th - Destany Hayes, Demary Varela
7th - Dylan Baumler, Taryn Feheley
8th - Anna Cermak, Kenneth Kaczor, David Leake
9th - Dahnavon Clephane, Raul Deleon, Joshua Tomsett
10th - Mariah Hayes, Sarah Hooks, Mary Stuart Sadler
11th - Ryan Andresen, Maasona Sanyang
13th - Manny Flores, Kaitlin Money, Victor Villarrial
15th - Maya Langley
17th - Dakoda Frady, Marsha Otoluwa, Hannah Rice
18th - Mariana Morton, Colton Roper
19th - Susan Folckemer
20th - Michael Basford, Jorge Villasenor
21st - Jonathan Ben, Massimo Gonzalez, Janissa Natividad, Natalie Qamou
22nd - Jesse Tymas
23rd - Alexander Zorrilla
24th - Kasey Munsch, Aneta Petit, Shawna Searcy
25th - Elle Affleck, Steven Bourque
26th - Robert Gonzales, Meghan Landry, Ian Strickler
27th - Trey Oldfield
28th - Amber Suber
29th - Matt Guzman, Sayria Swinson
30th - Joshua Schmidt, Xander Weightman
Milestone Anniversaries
We’d like to recognize everyone celebrating their work anniversary this month! We’re so glad you’re a part of the TPCO family and appreciate all you do!
1 Year
Matilda Marlowe (2nd), Madison Palmer (3rd), Lillie Whiten(3rd), Brooke Whyrick (3rd), Ian Strickler (3rd), Mayson Watson (5th), Caroline Garcia (9th), Parker Ogle (9th), Samuel Carpenter (10th), Lily Griffin (11th), James Walton (12th), Nicholas Morris (12th), David Campbell( 12th), Precious Mosely (13th), Harold Ledbetter (16th), Maliyah Norville (17th), Eric Diaz (19th), Abril Viana (23rd), Ellery-Joy Ferguson (24th), Hannah Alfaro (25th), Jackson Savich (26th), Austin Lawrence (26th), Unique Allen (30th), Olivia Wilson (30th), Brock Nagel (30th)
2 Year
Anna Cermak (5th), Kelly Perez (6th), Kennedy Wraspir (6th), Gilbert Garcia (12th), Jeffrey Smith (18th), Giselle Cerda (19th), Dahnavon Clephane (20th), Kini Ekpu (25th), Alivia Derks (25th), Aureliano Carpio (27th)
3 Year
Joseph Santillan (2nd), Ed Ritenour (12th), Nicholas Bravo (15th), Tony Eason (26th), Paige Pechnik (27th), Jacob Votaw (29th), Demetrio Leija Banda (30th), Jesse Tymas (30th), Andrzej Szymczyk (30th)
4 Year
Ari Baio (13th), Janissa Natividad (13th), Devon Williams (23rd)
5 Year
Jason Patterson (14th), Quindaris Williams (16th), Matt May (16th), Julian Spence (24th)
6 Year
Kayla Pitts (10th), Jada Heron (17th)
7 Year
Anjelica Apodaca (10th)
9 Year
Hannah Gray (8th)
10 Year
Matt Darrow (21st), Jake Davis (30th), James Buhite (30th)
11 Year
Barb Chenard (14th)
16 Year
Heather Mills (1st)
18 Year
John Revington (24th), Dayvon Taliaferro (24th)
