Residential Construction General Manager (Detroit)

SFR3

$110K — $130K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in property management or real estate investment
  • Proven track record of maximizing ROI and managing budgets
  • Strong understanding of renovation and maintenance processes
  • Exceptional leadership and team-building skills
  • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities
  • Familiarity with HUD/HQS standards
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and manage vendor relationships

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all renovation, maintenance, and turn activities for the Detroit and Toledo markets
  • Scope homes to drive daily renovation progress and eliminate backlogs
  • Provide leasing teams with accurate project delivery dates
  • Maximize ROI on properties while ensuring quality and timeliness
  • Monitor financial performance, including overhead and margin management
  • Make strategic, data-informed decisions regarding projects and vendor management
  • Lead and empower local teams while fostering a culture of ownership

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with substantial quarterly performance-based bonus
  • Gas stipend to support travel expenses
  • Health and dental coverage for employees
  • Paid time off (PTO) to ensure work-life balance
  • 401K and Roth 401K options for retirement savings
Full Job Description
Your Mandate
As a General Manager, you're not just managing a market-you're running a business. Covering the Detroit and Toledo markets, you'll oversee the entire investment lifecycle from renovation through maintenance and turn, ensuring every dollar delivers outsized yield. This role demands hands-on hustle, strategic oversight, and a relentless ownership mentality.

You are the fund's eyes and ears in the market. You'll scope homes, solve problems in real-time, and drive performance across cost, quality, and speed. You'll be trusted to make strategic maintenance and capital expenditure decisions, build the right teams, and keep your markets lean and profitable.

Your Responsibilities

🏗 Production & Execution

  • Own all renovation, maintenance and turn activity across your region
  • Scope homes and drive daily progress
  • Eliminate renovation backlogs with urgency and discipline
  • Provide the leasing team with accurate project delivery dates
  • Ensure timely, high-quality completions aligned with HUD/HQS standards

Financials & Yield

  • Maximize ROI on every home
  • Strive to deliver high yield returns while ensuring projects meet SFR3 standards for quality, spec and timeliness
  • Monitor and improve TVP, overhead, and margin performance
  • Operate within overhead targets and manage vendor spend with precision

Strategic Management

  • Make data-informed decisions across projects, vendors, and team deployment
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with centralized teams
  • Ensure your region performs as a self-contained business unit

Team & Partner Leadership

  • Lead and empower local teams, vendor crews, and market partners
  • Identify gaps and build the bench with capable, reliable talent
  • Set expectations, lead by example, hold the line, and build a culture of ownership


Performance Metrics

  • Cost-to-complete accuracy
  • Renovation cycle time and backlog elimination
  • Margin & yield performance
  • Quality outcomes and tenant satisfaction


What 'Excellent' Looks Like

  • You treat your region like it's your business
  • You're respected by contractors, trusted by partners, and leaned on by the fund
  • You maintain the highest level of honesty, integrity and professionalism at all times
  • You demonstrate a strong moral compass and commitment to ethical conduct
  • You solve problems on the ground and think 3 steps ahead
  • You consistently deliver quality, speed, and profitability
  • You build strong teams and develop future leaders
  • You influence fund-wide strategy by setting a gold standard in market operations


Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive base salary + substantial quarterly bonus tied to financial performance
  • Gas stipend
  • Health & dental coverage
  • PTO
  • 401K + Roth 401K options


Ready to run the show?
If you're a high-impact operator with strong financial acumen, a bias for action, and a drive to own outcomes, the General Manager role at SFR3 might be your next big opportunity.

Apply now to lead the Southeast and help shape the future of real estate investment.

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