Courtney Trindell-Reyes

BRE Properties

By Leah Etling on Mar 15, 2012 in People

In her nearly 14 years with BRE Properties, Courtney Trindell-Reyes has worked in many aspects of property management, from her start as a leasing agent to her role today as a Senior Business Systems Analyst.

Her career path has given her unique perspective on the changing face of residential property management and she feels lucky to have achieved a particularly good work-life balance while enjoying professional success.

Courtney and her husband, Benjamin Reyes (a facilities engineer for BRE), have three sons, ages 3, 9, and 17, and the family is especially close. You can find them enjoying time together at the skate park in Riverside or traveling to the beach in their fifth wheel RV during school vacations.

Of paramount importance to Courtney is that her family gets her full attention while she’s at home, and her company receives equal treatment at work.

“This balance is really important for my family,” she said. “BRE has been just gracious and amazing to ensure that I have good balance. They’ve made sure that I’ve had it. I don’t know that I would have been able to achieve that on my own.”

Her worlds collide when she uses her son’s ages to recall when certain tech transition moments took place at the office. One was especially memorable – at the end of a long SQL training session with Yardi’s Tamara Berndt, Courtney had to tell everyone she’d be unable to continue the call – her water had broken while on the phone.

“Tamara and I joke that that awful SQL scripting class put me into labor,” she recalled.

While her schedule doesn’t allow time for many activities that aren’t work or family related, Courtney’s an extreme couponer who managed to cut her family’s $1500 monthly grocery bill in half by careful shopping. She also spends any free time making scrapbooks for her sons so they’ll be able to look back on their childhoods.

At work, she’s also a master of a balancing act. While working on multiple projects in different areas of the company simultaneously, Courtney says she enjoys handling everything from minute detail questions about technical problems for BRE staff to overseeing major upgrade projects. She uses all the information she’s collected throughout her career to contribute strong insight that benefits BRE.

“I love that I can do a little bit of everything in my job every day. I don’t think I could do the same thing every day all day long. I love that I can do everything from high level support to helping somebody log in to Yardi, very basic work to a very high level work, and touch so many departments,” she said.

She is fascinated by the industry’s transition to a paperless transaction system and has been a technical adviser on BRE’s implementation of automated rent collection. The company holds a portfolio of 88 multi-family communities with 25,192 units in California, Arizona, Washington and Colorado.

 

 

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What is your favorite type of music?

People would be surprised to hear that I love gangster rap. I don’t have the looks of someone who would like this type of music!

 What kinds of food do you like?

 I love Japanese food. I think I was Japanese in my past life (if I had a past life…)

 If you could have dinner with anyone, alive or historical, who would it be?

Oprah

 What are some things on your bucket list?

I want to travel to Turks and Caicos

What athlete or sports figure do you most admire?

Being that I am the only girl in my house with 4 boys I have to say Michael Jordan. He’s the best basketball player of all time.

 What online sites do you visit?

 I do all my shopping online always. I did all of my Christmas shopping for everyone online. I avoid stores at all costs.

 If you could have a super power, what would it be?

I would love to be able to wave a wand and have dinner made, house clean and laundry done, folded and put away daily!

 What’s something about you that few people know?

I have 8 tattoos

 What are the words you live by?

  I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

 If there was a movie made based on your life, what would be the title of the film?

Chaos