Mary Jo Minor is the President and majority stockholder of Mills Property Management Inc. which manages over 1500 apartment residences, involving various government programs and assistance, as well as Low Income Tax Credits. Mills Property Management Inc. also manages commercial property, including a strip mall, office park, and 2 mobile home parks. Mary Jo has led the company, which currently manages over 1500 units for over 15 different owners / entities, and partnerships, including non-profit corp., and individuals. She received the title of National Assisted Housing Professional * NAHP Executive in December of 1994, adhering to the established NAHP Code of Ethics. Mary Jo passed the extensive LIHTC certification testing, holding the designation of Certified Credit Compliance Professional through Spectrum. Currently with continued education credits she holds a (C4P). Mary Jo is a licensed Property Manager through the South Dakota Real Estate Commission holding lic.# 462. Mary Jo is responsible for the day to day operations of the corporation, and its 40+ employees.

ACCOUNTING: Wendy Peterson is our Chief Financial Officer. She manages the accounting staff. They are fully trained and experienced on our industry specific software. Wendy has 28 years of Property Management experience with our company and oversees each property budget, payables staff, receivables, and payroll. Our accounting dept. can generate numerous reports including- occupancy, comparative incomes from prior years, and many more analysis type technical asset management reports. Wendy is a licensed Property Manager through the South Dakota Real Estate Commission. She is a Certified Section 515 Specialist for Rural Development properties as well.

PROPERTY SUPERVISOR: Betty Beukelman is one of our true ‘key’ players on the team.  Betty travels across eastern SD visiting our various properties, encouraging, supporting and reviewing each manager.  Betty reviews each property, the tenant files, and monitors compliance issues. Betty has worked for Mills Property Management for 18 years and has special talents with our Senior customer/residents. Betty has experience as an activities director in a nursing home and started with us as an on-site manager at our first congregate project.

HUD Specialist: Debra Buckley is our HUD specialist. Debra currently serves on the Board of Directors for our Affordable Housing Managers Association (AHMA) Region. She is a HUD Occupancy specialist, our TRACS coordinator, and also oversees all of our HUD compliance and regulatory issues. Debra has attended TRACS training, as well as, been our company's lead trainer for our new industry software conversion. Debra works one on one with residents, applicants and our out-of-town HUD managers.

Maintenance: Dave Miller heads up our professional full time maintenance department consisting of a maintenance coordinator in the office and technicians out on the jobs. Each technician is capable to handle the day to day service calls and the occasional emergency call. We track each property as well as individual apartments recording parts and upgrades per unit. Maintenance is tracked from the time a service is requested through ordering and completion of the work, all the way to billing. Our Maintenance Technicians are trained in Fair Housing compliance, Customer Service, and regularly attend safety and industry training. We have a comprehensive preventative maintenance schedule at each property that has proven to limit emergencies and maintenance expenses.

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