I'm here for a good time, not a long time. - Property Manager Tailwind Group Employee Review

2.0
Aug 6, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*If you can put heads in beds, the company loves you and rewards you. Of course, this is very dependent upon how the university's enrollment is trending and how new the property is. *Management tends to leave you alone for most of the year. An annoying corporate leasing person will inevitably visit a few times per year. Just smile and nod. *Your coworkers are generally low performing mouth breathers so expectations are low. *This company will hire anyone...so why not get some experience here, use the company card for a lot of meals, and then move on to a better property management company when you have a better resume?

Cons

*They feed their employees a lot of teamwork/we're a family BS to get the workers to work harder for free. *The "totally confidential" surveys they send out are not anonymous at all. Your keystrokes are recorded. *You aren't allowed to take any time off in July or August because you need to work nearly every day at your site or another. *They say they value diversity, and will slap a picture of every POC on their socials, but the corporate office is very homogenous.

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5.0
Mar 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

close knit community within the team and the community bonuses and dinners and such

Cons

sometimes slight drama as to be expected inside a college environment

1.0
Mar 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Welcoming environment when you first start, but it seems now that that was just a facade.

Cons

High expectations for low pay. Presents the work dynamic as a “family” but then pays a $30-40k salary to a position that should clearly be hourly. It’s just an excuse to not pay overtime. Terrible health insurance. They literally recommend you use goodRX because it’s so bad & they clearly know it but don’t care. No real diversity at the corporate level. Everyone in upper management or in leadership positions are white. All of the owners are white & predominately from the Smith family. Lots of nepotism. It’s public knowledge, just look at their website. Tons of money is spent on trips for upper management and employees who make a lot of money for them. Tells property locations to be careful with spending, but then turns around & spends well over $300 a week on free lunches for the corporate office. Favoritism is rampant. As many others have said, these employees are the popular kids from high school. You’re either in or you’re out. I saw dozens of people get fired in my one year of working there. Their retention rate is horrible and they know it, but it doesn’t stop them from finding ways to fire people they don’t like or that don’t follow “the tailwind way”. Accept a job from them at your own risk and know that you are 100% dispensable to them no matter how hard you try to be a good employee.

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