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	AMSI Description of departments
				San Francisco office Located on the corner of Van Ness and Lombard street and right between the Marina and Russian Hill you cant really miss the AMSI office building with it’s yellow and green colors and the big AMSI sign. The location is considered a residential area. It was built in the late 19th century in the old victorian style. This style still has an influence on the interior of the building, you can see it for example on the doors and their moldings.


				San Diego office


				The furnished department The furnished department is located mainly on the 2nd floor. Another name for this department is the “Short Term Division”. AMSI provides furnished apartments throughout the whole city and in great diversity. These apartments, condominiums and houses are fully equipped and can be rented for days, weeks or months. At the moment AMSI has access to around 150 furnished units that can be rented.


				The unfurnished department The unfurnished department is also known as the “Long Term Division” and is located mainly on the 3rd floor. Like the name says, these apartments, condominiums and houses do not have any furniture or equipment. Right now AMSI manages around 230 unfurnished units and its growing weekly. Every 2nd Wednesday morning an unfurnished meeting takes place in the conference room, while the other Wednesdays are reserved for the furnished meetings.


				The real estate sales department The real estate sales department is the youngest department at AMSI. It is expanding and getting more important lately though. Sales agents are mainly located on the 3rd floor and so is the office of Robb Fleischer, the CFO of the company. He is in charge of the Real Estate Sales team and leads the meetings every Friday morning. AMSI gives advice to buyers and sellers and leads them through the whole process of purchasing or selling homes.

The reception

This is where most of the new interns start. At the reception they learn a lot about the company and get to know every agent and manager. Located on the 2nd floor at entry level it gets never boring here, there are always people coming into the office who need the help of the receptionist. It is also a good place to enhance your English skills since you are in contact with a lot of persons.


				Property management Property management is located on the 2nd floor of the building and consists of 3 different departments. Nathan Murdock is the property manager and the coordinator of the owner relations. He is in charge of the Communique department in special service. Usually there are 2 interns working with Nathan in this department.

				The 2nd department handles the tenant relations and the maintenance of all properties. Chris Alcorn leads this department. The handymen also get their tasks from here and report back to Chris.


				The 3rd department of property management is known as “The Art of Cleaning”. Roberto Estrada gives orders to the cleaners from his desk here and solves any other problems that come up considering the cleaning of the properties.

				Property management (for marketing purposes better known as special services) also does all the marketing for the company. Nathan Murdock coordinates this part of special services together with Sally Aderton (San Diego office). The postcards are designed and send out here and the agents can get great advices about how to set up their postcards.


				But marketing doesn’t end at postcards, AMSI also got books, gift baskets, mints, coffee mugs and much more. On the wall leading downstairs to the conference room are pictures about AMSI in the newspaper and other marketing articles.

				The interns work together as a group on the marketing tasks. We get the mailing addresses from an online database, print them onto the postcards and then mail them out on a daily basis. This is a great help for the agents and helps a lot to generate business.


				The accounting department The Accounting department is located on the top floor of the building and usually also works together with an intern. They are in charge of paying all the bills while also collecting the invoices. Mayumi Aono-Nguyen is the manager of the Accounting department.

				The conference room is located on the 1st floor and is used at least twice a week for meetings. Once a month we also have a big lunch meeting in here where the whole company meets and eats together.